Yash Issur

CEO Data Center Division, Airtel Africa

Yash is a Data Center Professional with over 14 Years of experience managing, building, operating, divesting and investing in Data Centers globally. He has been the trendsetter in building the first Data Center in many emerging markets and developed the Data Center resources expertise from the ground up there. He is currently the CEO of the Data Center Division at Airtel Africa. Prior to this he was the leader for Data Center Procurement, Portfolio and Risks at Amazon Web Services.

Yash has a Masters in Computer security and Forensics, a Masters in Business Administration and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, a Certified Information Security Manager and a Certified Data Center Management Professional. He is also part of the member of the Business Continuity institute and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.