Ep 29: Michael Tobin OBE, Director, Softbank SPAC and Serial Entrepreneur/Chairman on Datacenters, Entrepreneurship, SPACs, and more

Our incredible guest this week is Michael Tobin OBE and we're discussing entrepreneurship, datacenters, SPACs, and a lot more.  He’s is a highly successful technology entrepreneur and pioneer in the data center and telecom industries with over 30 years’ experience. As CEO, Michael Tobin OBE led TelecityGroup plc, a leading FTSE 250 Technology company from 2002 to 2014.  He took Redbus private in 2002 and relisted in 2007 as TelecityGroup in 2007. In 2005 he was named number 31 of Britain’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs & in 2014 he was honoured in the Queens New Years Honours List with the Order of the British Empire medal for Services to the Digital Economy. In 2016 he  received business awards for Outstanding Non Executive Director of the year in the Best Business Awards 2016 and  the Global Business Excellence Awards 2016, and Chairman of the Year at the Stevie Awards in the USA. In 2017 he was recognized as Datacentre and Cloud Influencer of the Decade in Monaco at the Broadgroup Industry Awards and named in Smith and Williamson’s Top 25 Power Individuals of Industry. He’s the author of 3 books, most recently “Lifting the Floor”, a fascinating and deeply personal account of his experience leading Redbus and Telecity through the chaotic end of the dotcom bubble and into the hyperscale era. Today’s, he’s now Chairman of EdgeConnex, who just announced a major joint venture with Andani in India along with numerous  non-executive roles across the technology industry.