Adam Gardner

CEO

Perth, Western Australia, Australia24 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

19 years of experience in critical infrastructure.
Expert in building innovative data centre solutions.
Strong focus on customer outcomes and operational discipline.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Centre and Telecommunications expert with a strong focus on operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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Operational EfficiencyStrategic PlanningActive ListeningArtificial Intelligence (AI)HardwareData Centre ArchitectureTeam LeadershipDistributed Team ManagementContract NegotiationAccount ManagementSolution SellingBusiness AnalysisTelecommunicationsHigh-Level Relationship ManagementData Center

About

Leading NEXTDC’s Edge business, the focus is on building infrastructure and services that bring cloud, AI and mission critical capability closer to where it’s needed. With over 19 years spent building, operating, and evolving critical infrastructure, there’s still a genuine buzz when great engineering disappears into “it just works”. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, product, delivery, and operations. Responsibility spans the Presales function, helping customers translate complex technical and commercial challenges into practical solutions, as well as the Products function, shaping scalable, repeatable offerings teams can deploy and operate with confidence. Challenges are approached with a strong bias toward customer outcomes over activity, and operational discipline over unnecessary complexity. The emphasis is on building teams that embrace change and continuously iterate, because the world we live in is advancing faster than ever before. There’s a deep interest in the intersection of edge, AI, operations, and customer experience, because the most meaningful innovation is often the kind you barely notice until you can’t imagine going back. If you’re building the next wave of digital infrastructure, exploring AI at the edge, or simply enjoy comparing notes on how to run complex systems well, always keen to connect.

Experience

24 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Nextdc

2 roles

Head of Edge

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Head of Products

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

Working with a great team to provide innovative solutions to the AU Data Centre market including:
launching NEXTneutral - Australia's only ClimateActive certified carbon neutral colocation offering
launching NEXTmcx - Mission Critical space for organisations that require 100% uptime for their staff as well as their IT Infrastructure
launching a national software defined network within the AXON ecosystem
launching the Edge business unit for NEXTDC

Vocus group limited

2 roles

General Manager - Data Centres

Jan 2014 – Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Vocus Communications is a leading supplier of telecommunications and data centre services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia and New Zealand.
Responsible for Vocus' Data Centre suite of 18 facilities across Australia and managing a great team of Data Centre Managers & Technician with a strong focus on Customer satisfaction.
Key outcomes include:
Integration of multiple diverse acquired facilities onto a unified platform for access, monitoring and CCTV
Net Promoter score of 50+
Successful implementation of M&A opportunities
Development of long term strategy and budgeting and management of facilities against these strategies
Integration of 3rd party Data Centres into the Vocus ecosystem
Product management of the Vocus Data Centre business unit
Deployment of new facilities and infrastructure upgrades

General Manager Operations - Vocus Data Centres

May 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Vocus Communications is a leading supplier of telecommunications and data centre services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia and New Zealand.
This role allowed me to work with a great Data Centre team across Australia & New Zealand. With responsibility for managing the operational requirements of the data centres, the day to day role included operational overviews, budget proposals, facility optimisation and M&A activities.

Perth ix

3 roles

General Manager

Jun 2010 – May 2011 · 11 mos

Responsible for the overall operation, sales activity & performance of the Perth iX Data Centre.
Achieved record EBITDA with significant growth of the customer base and conversion rates, culminating in a successful divestment of the business to Vocus Communications.

Business Development Manager

Promoted

Nov 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Responsible for sales and marketing of the business including processes and systems.
Substantially involved in the design and build of Perth's then largest data centre including securing anchor tenants for funding and development.
Increased company profitability by 60% and secured 91% of all new business resulting in 100% facility occupancy.