Technology Magazine June 2022 | Page 187

SAMI SLIM
TITLE : CEO
INDUSTRY : TELECOMMUNICATIONS / DATA CENTRES / HUBS
LOCATION : FRANCE and bypassing that journey to those cities in Northern Europe .”
Sami stresses that all businesses know how expensive it is to move data across the cloud . He claims some companies could even have their data carriage costs once Marseille comes on stream .
According to Sami , the potential unlocked by those saved milliseconds changes the way we use the internet . More online trading , video , OTT streaming , gaming and real-time

EXECUTIVE BIO

Engineer , graduate of Telecom
SudParis and the University of Michigan , Sami joined Telehouse in 2010 as a technical sales engineer . For 3 years , he was at the heart of Telehouse ' s data centre and connectivity growth in France , before joining the Telehouse Europe Strategy Department in 2013 . In 2014 , he became head of the sales department in France before being appointed CEO in 2022 . In this role , his mission is to accelerate Telehouse ' s growth , helping the Group ' s customers and prospects to improve their interconnection capabilities . Sami Slim brings to Telehouse a passion for a free , neutral and open Internet . His deep knowledge of the IT market and his proximity to the Internet players contribute to consolidate Telehouse ' s results , and to earn him the renewal of the Group ' s confidence .