Speaker Profile

Prashant Murthy is the Chief Financial & Commercial Officer, leading AirTrunk’s finance, commercial and strategy functions to ensure the company’s responsible and sustainable growth across the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) region. He also oversees PMO, procurement and sustainability departments.

 

AirTrunk is the pioneer of hyperscale data centres in APJ, focused on delivering unmatched scale, speed, efficiency and reliability for its customers. In 2017, AirTrunk opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in Sydney and Melbourne and has rapidly expanded across the region. This includes launching hyperscale data centres in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney North and Japan, announcing the development of second data centres in Western Sydney, Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as a new data centre in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Collectively, AirTrunk’s data centre platform will offer almost 1.38 gigawatts (GW) of capacity providing a connected, secure, and sustainable home for data across the APJ region.

 

AirTrunk is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world. In April 2020, it was valued at A$3b when a consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and including Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), acquired a major stake in the company, in the largest data centre deal in Australian history. 

 

Under his leadership, AirTrunk has raised over A$6 billion in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) financing across its APJ platform, making it one of the largest issuers of sustainable financing in the data centre industry.

 

Prashant’s achievements were recognised in September 2022, when he was named one of The Tech Capital’s 50 most influential digital infrastructure CFOs globally. Prashant was also named in the 2019 Finvest 50 as one of the world’s top 50 data centre finance leaders.

Previously at Macquarie Capital in Australia and North America, Prashant has extensive experience in data centres and digital infrastructure.