Speaker Profile

Christopher Wellise is the Global VP of Sustainability for Equinix.  He and his team set the sustainability strategy and key targets for the company, and collaborate with CEO, CFO, CRO, Operations and Board to interpret changes in the external sustainability environment and work out strategic consequences for Equinix.  They communicate and cut through organizational complexity to enable Equinix to deliver on ESG commitments.  

 

Prior to Equinix he led AWS’s global sustainability effort focused on improving company performance and meeting customer needs.  Prior to AWS, he was the Chief Sustainability Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) where he led the setting of the first Scienced-based supply chain climate target and built a customer facing sustainability team to deliver revenue.  He began his career as an Environmental/Physical Scientist working for the US Department of Interior studying the impact of investment in pollution control system on river and estuary ecosystems.