COUNTRY FOCUS : ISRAEL nd KKR build added to data
Andrew Peisch , Director at KKR , said : “ Israel is an entrepreneurial hub for high-tech innovation and an important market for our data centre strategy in EMEA . We are pleased to make this investment in a high-quality project to help accelerate the Digital Transformation that is underway in the region .”
GTR was launched last year by leading global investment firm , KKR , and Franek Sodzawiczny , a highly experienced and successful serial entrepreneur in the data centre sector who has a focus on delivering leading-edge designs that support sustainability objectives . The company ’ s focus is on designing , building and operating bespoke data centres across the EMEA region for large technology clients , meeting growing demand for third-party data centre provision amid ever-increasing growth in data
Investing here made sense given the expertise we can bring to such fastmoving and agile businesses that rely heavily on data .
usage and cloud services adoption . KKR ’ s original investment in GTR was made primarily from its third global infrastructure fund .
Franek Sodzawiczny , Founder and CEO at GTR , offers some further insight into the data centre landscape in Israel and discusses why it is such a technology hotspot .
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