Jay Adelson has over 25 years of experience in technology and internet businesses globally. He has also founded and served as chief executive for other successful companies across the technology and internet infrastructure spaces.
Mr Adelson co-founded Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) in 1998, and was responsible for the original and sustaining business model that grew it into one of the largest data centre companies in the world. He was also instrumental in the establishment and operation of the original Palo Alto Internet Exchange for Digital Equipment Corporation in 1996. In 2005, he founded the first internet television network, Revision3, which was acquired by Discovery Communications in 2012. As chief executive of Digg, Mr Adelson launched and grew the internet media company to tens of millions of users, and billions of impressions, a month.