Ark empower businesses to work from anywhere in the world by designing and operating data centres which lead the market in social responsibility.
Our pioneering facilities leverage 100% renewable energy, optimum security, high availability and offer world-class sustainable scalability.
Huw OwenChief Executive Officer
Wesley BrookesCommercial Sales & Marketing Director
Lindsey SherarDirector of People, Leadership & Change
James OwenClient Experience Director
Ian PerrymentFinance Director
Tony SinghCommercial Director
Andy GarvinDirector of Design, Build and Operations
Rob SilvesterReal Estate Director
We have established a number of key partnerships to underpin the security, efficiency and effectiveness of our services to you.
We are always looking to improve our services and enhance industry standards through collaboration with thought-leadership bodies across the public and private sectors.
Ark uniquely provides low cost, private-campus fibre connectivity to some of the world's leading cloud providers. From each location, our fibre on-ramps provide access directly to public clouds and enable you to meet your future IT goals.
Ark's locations are specifically chosen to be well connected. As a carrier-neutral data centre operator we can help you connect to anywhere in the world. Our team can assist you with expert advice on the best routes and carriers to meet your needs.
Ark provides a range of Smart Hands services, offering expert on-site assistance 24/7/365, including cross connects, concierge services and remote support.
Our 24/7 Service Desk provides direct access to professional data centre support whenever you need it, including Smart Hands requests, access and deliveries, and incident and security management.
We'll set you up with a secure self-service portal, providing visibility of your data centre environment. You can also use the portal to order Smart Hands and other services, create and track support requests, and manage access and deliveries.
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Huw Owen
Chief Executive Officer
Huw joined Ark in November 2012 as Chief Executive to lead a new Management Team following the recapitalisation of the company. He has held key roles at a number of organisations, including BT Global Services and HP Defence and Security. Other roles in his extensive career include Chief Executive of the Atlas Consortium, delivering the Ministry of Defence DII (Defence Information Infrastructure) programme.
Huw also worked for the Asia Foundation, formulating and driving national reform programmes in Cambodia, as well as advising the United Nations on their efforts in Central Asia. Before this, he served with the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, latterly as a Detective Inspector.
Wesley Brookes
Commercial Sales & Marketing Director
Wes has 20 years of career experience in technology sales, and for the last 9 years has been working across multiple data centre sales & marketing roles including 7 years with Ark, culminating in him leading the Ark sales & marketing team.
In this time he has played a major role in all key deals with customers across our Enterprise, Cloud, and Hyperscale products, developing our partner business channel that has seen Ark grow into a world leading, socially responsible data centre provider and is passionate about sharing Ark’s story with our current and future customers.
Lindsey Sherar
Director of People, Leadership & Change
Lindsey graduated in 2015 after completing her LLB Law with Business Degree at the University of Brighton and joined Ark shortly after, in June 2015. Since joining, Lindsey has completed her Advanced CIPD in Human Resource Management and used her experience during her sandwich degree course to assist in creating a culture focused on our people.
Lindsey is responsible for ensuring that we look after everyone intellectually, physically, spiritually and emotionally. She continues to focus on personal development and task performance by using training to develop all our skills and knowledge, in addition to ensuring the right people join Ark through effective recruitment and selection processes. Lindsey supported Ark in becoming a High Performance Organisation in 2017 and achieving Investors in People Platinum in 2017 and 2020.
James Owen
Client Experience Director
James joined Ark in 2013 and is responsible for end-to-end client experience covering account management, project delivery and service management. He has over 10 years’ IT services experience, specialising in financial services, defence and the public sector industries. Before joining Ark, James worked at Hewlett-Packard, developing through the programme management discipline before supporting UK senior leadership with strategic planning, transformation and business operations.
Ian Perryment
Finance Director
Ian Perryment joined Ark in December 2012, from HP Defence and Security. Prior to this, he was CFO of the Atlas Consortium, delivering the Ministry of Defence DII (Defence Information Infrastructure) programme, and Finance Manager with the NAAFI, a multinational providing services to the British armed forces.
Ian is a chartered accountant, having trained with PwC, including a two-and-a-half-year assignment in Australia with the Transaction Services team specialising in due diligence, initial public offerings and financial modelling.
Tony Singh
Commercial Director
Tony leads our in-house Legal and Compliance team whose remit, in addition to legal advice, covers insurance, risk management, governance and compliance activities including our quality management systems, environmental licensing and ISO certifications. Tony also assists with contract negotiations and supports Ark’s sales construction and operations function.
Tony joined Ark in September 2014 from Eversheds where he was an Associate in the Commercial practice group with a focus on railway, telecoms and IT contracts as well as pro bono activities.
Andy Garvin
Director of Design, Build and Operations
Andy joined the Company in 2009 and now heads up the Construction Team, responsible for the co-ordination and management of all data centre construction activities across the Ark estate. A civil engineer by training, Andy has over 15 years of experience within the construction industry and has successfully lead many multi-million pound data centre build projects with a total value well over £300 million.
Andy joined Ark from Black and Veatch where he was involved in both designing and constructing many large critical engineering projects across Energy, Water and Telecommunications sectors.
Rob Silvester
Real Estate Director
Rob joined Ark in 2018 to drive the growth of the company’s real estate strategy. He has over 25 years’ experience in the UK and European Real Estate capital markets industry as an advisor or principal and has executed over £2Bn of transactions across multiple geographies and asset classes. Rob is a chartered surveyor, has held senior positions at CBRE, King Sturge (now JLL) and advised the UK’s leading real estate institutions on Capital Markets transactions.
Lord Evans of Weardale
Non-Executive Director
Lord Evans was Director-General of the Security Service (MI5) between 2007 and 2013, having previously served on the Management Board as Director of International Counter Terrorism. He is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of HSBC Holdings, as well as being a member of the Advisory Boards of Darktrace and of Facewatch.
