Byrne Murphy is co-owner and Chairman of DigiPlex Group of Companies. He brings 25 years experience of making and managing property-led investments and businesses throughout the USA and Europe. He is the former Deputy Chief Executive and co-founder of BAA McArthurGlen, Europe’s largest owner and operator of designer outlet centres. Byrne is also founding partner and Managing Director of Kitebrook Partners Limited, an international real estate investment company. Byrne received his MBA from University of Virginia and his BA (Cum Laude) from Harvard University.
Wiljar joined DigiPlex on 1st March. He recently served as Executive Vice President Financial Services at TietoEVRY. He also worked at Elkem and AP Dow Jones, and as CEO and part owner of Manamind AS.
Wiljar is a board member of the trade and employer’s association Abelia and a selected member of The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) panel for future business and industry in Norway.
He studied at the Norwegian School of Economics and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Cathrine M. Telje is the Chief Financial Officer for the DigiPlex group of companies. She is an experienced finance professional with more than 20 years in managing positions and a broad background from private equity and publicly listed companies, among other EDB Business Partner ASA (now part of EVRY ASA). Cathrine holds a Master of Business Administration, finance specialization, from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and HEC Paris.
Dan is Chief Service Delivery Officer for the Group. He is a Chartered Building Services Engineer with broad experience in estate maintenance and construction works in both the public and private sectors. His Data Centre Operations experience is extensive having managed multi-site portfolios across the UK and Europe. Dan has achieved operational success employing different techniques; he has supervised in-house staff and has managed consultants and contractors. Dan’s experience is in matching, developing and improving operational delivery mechanisms and tailoring services to match business and customer needs in the complex business-critical data centre environment.
In February 2021 Fredrik was appointed Chief Commercial Officer, merging the previous Marketing and Sales departments to form one commercial team. Prior to this Fredrik was the Chief Strategy, Marketing & Communications Officer.
Before joining DigiPlex, Fredrik held several marketing leadership roles at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in a distinguished career spanning over a decade. During his time with TCS, the firm grew from $1bn to $16.5 in revenue and from 40,000 to 370,000 employees. His last position at TCS was as Chief Brand Officer responsible for all brand building activities across 21 European markets.
Geoff is Group Chief Technology Officer with responsibility for engineering and innovation across all of the DigiPlex data centres. He is a Building Services and Mechanical Engineer, a member of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and an Uptime Institute Accredited Design Engineer. He has a extensive experience in Data Centre focussed business unit and technical services team management in both Operational and CapEx roles. Geoff is accountable and responsible for the delivery of the capital works program for the Group, where the key focus is to ensure the designs are future ready and aligned with Group business direction. Geoff’s team also provide support to the COO in problem resolution and change management. Geoff has been part of the DigiPlex management team from the outset.
Haakon joined Digiplex August 2015 as Head of Human Resources. He brings nine years of experience as a HR Business Partner and recruiter. He holds a Master of Science degree in Organisational Psychology and a Bachelor Degree in Business Law - both from Norwegian School of Management.
Haakon is the former HR Business Partner for Consulting and System Integration and Managed Services at Tieto Norway AS. Before this he worked six years as a recruiter.
Halvor has been delivering IT operations for large companies since his first appointment as a consultant with Cap Gemini in 2000. In 2005 he moved to Amedia Technoloy, progressing with them and taking responsibility as Head of Operations and in January 2012 he was appointed CEO of the company.
An offer from DNB to join them as Senior Vice President / Head of Service Integration in 2014 saw him move from media to banking. Halvor was responsible for all IT operations managing IT deliveries from many high profile Nordic companies, including EVRY, TCS, HCL, Infosys, CSC, NETS and more.
When IBM Cloud launched their first SoftLayer based data centre in Scandanavia in 2016, Halvor saw an opportunity to be part of a new journey with an evolving industry. The following year, that same journey brought him to DigiPlex.
Phil joined DigiPlex in March 2021 as the Chief Development Officer. Phil founded and led Mace International Data Center Business operating in several of Europe’s leading data center markets including the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark. He brings deep expertise in data center and critical infrastructure development and construction to the accelerated demand and delivery cycles in the market.
Phil is committed to the continuous improvement of health and safety standards and is involved in a number of H&S boards and leadership schemes, including co-chair of the British Safety Council (BSC) Construction Sector Interest Group.
