Vantage Data Centers Taps Equinix’s Jeremy Deutsch as APAC President

US hyperscale operator Vantage Data Centers has hired Jeremy Deutsch, a 23-year veteran of server-hosting giant Equinix, as the company’s Asia Pacific president.

The new role will see Deutsch tasked with driving regional growth, including strategy, market development, sales, construction and operations, Vantage said in a release. The Denver-based group has 452 megawatts of capacity in APAC across eight operational or under-development data centre campuses.

Deutsch will report to Vantage’s executive vice president for North America and APAC, Jeff Tench, who said the new recruit would help the company meet customer demand driven by AI-fuelled growth.

“Jeremy is an industry veteran who brings a breadth of knowledge and expertise that will be critical as we rapidly scale our APAC platform,” Tench said.

Trade Group Chair

At Equinix, Deutsch served in a variety of roles including most recently as president of APAC since 2019. He spearheaded the Silicon Valley-based company’s growth strategies, scaling into five new countries over five years while delivering strong core business growth, Vantage said.

Deutsch previously held positions at Unwired Australia, a SingTel Optus company, and Pihana Pacific before it was acquired by Equinix in 2002.

A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Deutsch was elected as the inaugural chair of the Asia Pacific Data Centre Association, a trade group Vantage helped launch, in addition to holding a seat on the APDCA’s board of directors.

“I am thrilled to join Vantage to lead the company’s fast-growing APAC division,” Deutsch said. “The Vantage APAC platform is poised for explosive growth, and I am excited to have the opportunity to help the team further scale and support customers who need best-in-class sustainable digital infrastructure.”

Raymond Tong Exits

Deutsch succeeds Raymond Tong, who served as Vantage’s APAC president since last October and is settling with his family in Canada, according to a LinkedIn post.

Vantage recently broke ground on its 256MW Cyberjaya campus, which will be the company’s largest APAC campus and its second in Malaysia upon completion. Vantage also began construction of its first Japan campus in May and announced the grand opening of its first Taiwan campus in July.

In April, Mingtiandi reported that Vantage was marketing its Hong Kong data centre portfolio less than three years after acquiring it from Hong Kong telecom operator PCCW, with the facilities estimated to be worth between $300 million and $500 million.