Logos Hires Paul Dwyer From Equinix to Lead Data Centre Unit

Industrial developer Logos on Monday announced three appointments to support its Singapore-based green data centre business, led by the hiring of former Equinix executive Paul Dwyer.

Dwyer joins Logos as head of data centres and will be based in the Lion City, the Sydney-based company said in a release. He will be responsible for continuing the growth of the business and overseeing the acquisition, development and management of current and future projects with joint venture partners.

Logos has also brought in Ben Hudson, most recently of Global Switch, as head of development for data centres and will transfer Kieran O’Flynn, head of leasing for Southeast Asia, to the newly created role of head of customers for data centres.

“We are very pleased to have Paul, Ben and Kieran on board to continue our focus on our green data centre business initiative and to work alongside our existing 420 plus strong employees to execute our approach of developing and investing into fully fitted data centres,” said Logos managing director and co-CEO Trent Iliffe.

Hyperscale Leader

Dwyer spent four years with US giant Equinix as a senior director leading the xScale hyperscale initiative in Asia Pacific, where he drove $2.5 billion worth of acquisitions in Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney and Seoul.

Before joining Equinix, he performed various roles in a data centre capacity during brief stints at the Hong Kong offices of Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL.

“I am excited to join the Logos platform and look forward to addressing the secular demand we are seeing in this space through our strong regional presence and unique product offering alongside our capital partners,” Dwyer said.

Hudson had served as development director for Asia Pacific at Global Switch since 2020 after working for eight years in project management at engineering consultancy Faithful & Gould in Singapore and Hong Kong.

O’Flynn joined Logos in January of this year. He previously spent eight years on the APAC capital markets team at JLL with a focus on industrial real estate (including data centre coverage).

Budding Business

Logos, a unit of Hong Kong-listed industrial giant ESR, launched its server-hosting business in June of last year by teaming with UK-based Pure Data Centres to develop a 20-megawatt hyperscale facility in Jakarta.

The 20,000 square metre project is under construction and scheduled to begin operating in the first quarter of 2022.

Six months after the Jakarta effort was announced, Logos and Pure unveiled a broader partnership aimed at developing critical data centre infrastructure across Asia Pacific.

Pure was formerly known as Global Data Centres Ltd and now has facilities across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, in addition to Asia Pacific, where it has projects in place in India and Vietnam.