of just 53 . “ Cliff knew everyone in the business so I felt very much on my own when he died so unexpectedly .” It was providential though that at the time the company was hiring a Russian CFO , Dmitry Fokin who was able to take over the reins of management . The build-up of the business over the intervening six years has been impressive . “ Goldman Sachs came in as an investor in 2017 , so now we are a very big business with over $ 100m invested , I00 staff on our books and more than 150 customers . In nine years we have come from being the outsider , the foreign incomer , to being the number two data centre player in the whole of the Russian Federation .”
Since 2016 Guy Willner has also been CEO of Eurasia Peering IX , which enables telecom operators , cloud solution providers , system integrators , content delivery networks ( CDNs ), ISPs , hosting companies , social networks and the like to exchange traffic seamlessly and optimise traffic routes . “ Eurasia Peering is the beating heart of the data centre . Peering is like a market place but instead of goods you bring content to the marketplace and connect it to users who may be on six or seven different mobile or broadband networks , all connected to that internet exchange ( IX ), which is basically a collection of networks , network operators and content providers - so Google , Apple , Microsoft , Alibaba and Tencent which are all on our Eurasia
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