SUSTAINABILITY

Top 10 Sustainability leaders

Abell

Senior Director of Sustainability

Vantage Data Centers

A sustainability leader with more than 17 years of experience integrating sustainability into business, Amanda Abell engages and empowers stakeholders across all levels to take ownership of sustainability initiatives. She defines and implements strategies to support Vantage’s global environmental stewardship and sustainability initiatives which is driven by her extensive experience in communicating complex, technical sustainability topics to a wide variety of audiences in translating macro sustainability trends and scientific data into actionable goals and objectives.

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Wright Vice President –Energy and Sustainability QTS

Now with almost a decade at QTS under his belt, Travis Wright has been VP of Energy and Sustainability for more than five years and manages utility procurement and energy efficiency programs. Wright also sits on the development team, negotiating new-site infrastructure agreements and tax incentives and fostering government relations. Alongside his 25 years of energy efficiency and management experience, Wright also has almost 20 years of critical facility management experience in the semiconductor industry.

One of the world’s most sustainable companies, Schneider Electric is the only one of its category to have been named a Global 100 every year since 2012 and was ranked as the world’s most sustainable corporation by Corporate Knights in 2021. Mike Fraser’s passion as Vice President of Global Sustainability Services is undeniable – helping some of the globe’s biggest brands have a greener focus for both their benefit and that of the planet.

Dan Andersson CEO EcoDataCenter

EcoDataCenter is dedicated to building data centres as sustainably as possible to support a global increased need for digitalisation and sustainability. The firm builds facilities in locations where the electricity mix is fossilfree, banning energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining, building in wood and recycling waste heat. CEO Dan Andersson says EcoDataCenter revolutionises the industry “by building one of the most sustainable data centres in the world.”