The people who design, build and operate our data centres are some of the finest in the industry – trusted time and again to safeguard customers’ mission critical compute.
Together, their achievements have been recognised often, and they’ve built an enviable reputation for delivering the highest-grade colocation, as well as pioneering new approaches to data centre engineering and sustainability.
Meet the award-winning team, including Samir, Jo, Faisal and Wendy - our 2023 Employee Award winners (right), behind our award-winning data centres.

Kao Data’s leadership team is pivotal to the company’s strong foundations, rapid development and strategic forward vision:
Having founded Kao Data in 2014, David served as Board Member and in September 2023 became the company's Chairman. David has a wide-ranging background with over 17 years’ experience in the technology, media and telecommunications industry as an investor, founder and investment manager. He has personally overseen the deployment of more than £500m of equity investment. A serial founder, David founded IPVision in 2007, Goldacre - now part of the Noé Group – in 2012 and NED Data Centres, an Israeli-based owner-operator for the Middle Eastern market in 2022. He is a skilled people manager, commercial negotiator, strategist, forecasting and budget manager and presenter.
Spencer Lamb is Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Kao Data and alongside David Bloom head’s up the senior management team. Having held previous leadership positions at data centre companies – Infinity SDC and Verne Global, Spencer brings over 25 years of experience in data centre colocation, artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC), hyperscale cloud and telecommunications to the business. Across his career, Spencer has focused within the start-up and scale-up stages of international data centre organisations and pioneered the UK’s first colocation public sector framework - deploying multiple AI/HPC installations for high intensity research applications. Most recently at Kao Data he has played a pivotal role in growing the company into a multisite portfolio, helping it become the UK leader for AI & advanced computing, and championing the sustainability and ESG focus of the business.
Formerly a founding board member and Investor Director, Matthew became Kao Data's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in September 2021. Previously Matthew was CFO at Goldacre Ventures. During his time with Goldacre Ventures Matthew oversaw a period of significant growth in clients and revenues and secured over £250m of funding for portfolio companies. Matthew is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales with experience across a range of private equity backed and listed businesses in the technology, manufacturing and investment sectors.
Kalay is the Chief People Officer (CPO) at Kao Data and brings a wealth of Human Resources (HR) experience, with her last decade focused on the data centre space. Kalay has held HR leadership roles at Interxion, Digital Reality, and most recently, with a stealth startup within the industry. She completed her CIPD-accredited postgraduate education at the University of London and also holds a degree from the University of South Africa. Kalay's passion lies in building high-performing teams and collaborating with senior leadership to scale and expand the business into new territories. With extensive experience in working and recruiting within the EMEA region, Kalay brings invaluable insights to our team as we continue to drive growth and innovation in the technology sector.
Pete is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Kao Data and brings with him an extensive amount of operational, leadership and transformational experience gained over the last 30 years in the critical services industry. With a proven track record of creating and leading EMEA wide teams delivering exceptional customer service and operational excellence, Pete has extensive people management and mentoring expertise which drives a passion for building and leading high performing, safe, effective, and efficient teams across the full life cycle of critical services delivery. His responsibilities at Kao Data include primary ownership of key operational functions such as operations, customer implementation, design and engineering, networks and systems, security, incident management, and health and safety. Pete has previously held positions of Senior Vice President of Operations at NTT, Vice President of Operations at Interxion and Operations Director at TelecityGroup.
Clinton Hasell is Chief Business Officer at Kao Data, bringing over 30 years’ commercial experience in the data centre and wider digital and telecommunications sector. Previously he held leadership roles at Interxion/Digital Realty, Colt, Cable & Wireless, and most recently led the European division at Global Switch. Within Kao Data, Clinton oversees the data centre development function in tandem with spearheading the optimisation of our core business operations. A specialist in the definition, development and execution of business strategy, his role encompasses business transformation projects to enable Kao Data to scale efficiently and effectively to achieve its growth ambitions. Clinton is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and has a degree in Business Studies from the University of Liverpool.

There has never been a better time to join Kao Data. We’re always on the lookout for exceptional candidates across commercial, technical and operational disciplines.
A career at Kao Data offers the opportunity to join a rapidly growing company early within its evolution, and within an industry that is showing phenomenal global expansion.

With Kao Data we have found a data centre that offers world-class infrastructure, specialist HPC support and the scalability to help us to grow our industry-leading AI product platforms and solutions.
Karim Beguir, CEO & Co-Founder, InstaDeep