Rapidly growing data centre operator creates additional role in service team to streamline the growth of corporate customer base

London, UK – 3 November 2011 – Specialist data centre operator, Infinity, today announced the appointment of Simon Blackburn as its Operations Director. The newly created role follows hot on the heels of other recent senior-level appointments, including Stuart Sutton as COO to whom Blackburn will report.

An experienced senior manager with solid customer service credentials, Blackburn joins Infinity from THUS where he was Service Director. Reporting to the Managing Director and part of the THUS executive management team, he was accountable for the management of all run-rate revenue streams plus end-to-end service and support to all customers.

Martin Lynch, CEO, Infinity commented, “Simon is a valuable asset in the strengthening arsenal that is our senior management team and is no stranger to creating the operational infrastructure necessary to meet the demands of a fast growing, dynamic and successful business. His extensive experience of running large, multi-site, multi-disciplined service organisations and providing business critical services to large blue chip fits entirely with the approach at Infinity.”

During his 12 year tenure at THUS, working with customers in the telecommunications, IT and finance sectors, Blackburn built and developed an ITIL-based, single service organisation that successfully scaled to meet a 400 per cent growth in customer network connections in under a year. Notably, he successfully re-engineered the organisation and its processes to enable the deployment of a CRM platform that would become the backbone of its future growth.

“A genuine customer focus and meticulous attention to detail are central to what we do,” concluded Lynch. “Simon’s appointment is further evidence of ethos that operational processes and teams underpin the delivery of the outstanding service that our customers have come to expect.”