Continent 8 Technologies has named long-serving Google executive Dave Phillips as its new vice president of network.
Phillips spent nearly 15 years at Google in a range of leadership roles across engineering, operations, delivery and product teams.
At Continent 8, he will oversee the company’s global network of more than 100 data centre locations across four continents, including 30 states in the United States.
“Dave is a highly experienced network technologist with an incredible amount of Internet industry experience having been at Google through their hyper-growth phase over the past 15 years,” said Continent 8 Technologies chief technology officer Edward O’Connor. “Our network is one of the largest and best connected in the business.
“For over 25 years our industry’s biggest brands have relied on the Continent 8 network and hiring Dave to lead our global team will help to ensure that we continue to innovate on behalf of customers for the next 25 years. Dave is joining a fantastic team – with his experience and the immense creativity of our group, I’m certain that we’re going to invent great ways to help our customers in 2024 and beyond.”
Commenting on his new role, Phillips said: “Continent 8’s connected network is quite simply the backbone of the iGaming industry and I’m thrilled to be joining the company.
“I’m excited by the extraordinary growth facing Continent 8, further developing our innovative product set and strengthening our position as the infrastructure partner of choice for many of the biggest operators and suppliers in the global gaming industry.”