Greg Boorer

Founder & CEO at CDC Data Centres

Speaker

Since founding the company in Canberra in 2007, and under Greg’s leadership as CEO, CDC has grown from a start-up to become a leading owner, developer and operator of large-scale, highly secure and sovereign data centres across Australia and New Zealand.

Greg’s significant technology and data centre industry experience was gained as a highly successful sales executive working across Europe and the United States and upon returning to Australia in 2006 Greg identified an opportunity to provide purpose-built data centres dedicated to government customers to keep Australia’s digital and data critical infrastructure safe. Now, industries such as government, finance and banking, energy, logistics and retail entrust CDC and leverage its sovereign status to ensure that their data is secure and available.

The success and high regard of CDC as a strategic partner to the most discerning government and critical infrastructure customers can be attributed to Greg’s vision and leadership of a high performing executive team who continuously innovate to deliver ultra-modular, flexible, scalable, sustainable, next generation data centres facilities.

Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Science from the University of Newcastle, Australia, is the Chair of Cricket ACT, the Chair of Canberra charity, Hands Across Canberra, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is the immediate past Chair of the Federal and ACT Council of the Australian Information Industry Association and immediate past President of the Commonwealth Club Canberra.In 2017 Greg, and his wife Margaret, established their own charity fund, the Boorer Foundation, which provides a broad range of support to the Canberra community.