ERIC FAN
BRIDGE DATA CENTRES
The company’ s drive is strategic and BDC aims to set a new industry benchmark for sustainable hyperscale growth, while ensuring APAC’ s digital ecosystem has an inexhaustible foundation of computing power.
“ I think, overall, the industry is at a very exciting moment,” says Eric Fan, CEO of BDC.“ The beauty of the industry is that it’ s making a lot of progress with new technology, innovative advancements and the changing dynamics of the AI trend. So you get a feeling that you’ re at the core of this evolution of the AI world.”
Bridge Data Centres was founded in 2017 and is backed by Bain Capital.
ERIC FAN
CEO
Eric Fan is the CEO of Bridge Data Centres and a key member of the senior management team. He oversees critical operations including development and delivery, R & D and drives strategic initiatives for the company’ s growth.
With more than a decade of leadership experience, Eric previously held significant roles at Saint-Gobain, Dow Chemical and Honeywell.
Eric earned a bachelor’ s degree in information science from Zhejiang University and a Ph. D. in engineering science from the University of Oxford, underscoring his strong foundation in the data centre industry.
The company is headquartered in Singapore and began expanding its regional footprint soon after its establishment.
In 2018, BDC acquired two data centre facilities in Cyberjaya with a combined IT load of about 20MW, marking one of its first major operating assets in Asia. These early developments laid the foundation for the larger hyperscale campuses the company is building today.
BDC’ s business model and regional scope have changed significantly since then.
Pioneering a hyperscaler campus model in Malaysia BDC developed the first hyperscalefocused campuses in Malaysia and was the first operator to establish capacity in Johor, a region in Southern Malaysia that has become a regional data centre hub.
Eric describes the early work as involving considerable groundwork and infrastructure development.
“ We were actually the first data centre company in the region,” says Eric.“ There was a lot of heavy lifting in that process because we were the pioneers – we had to lay all the groundwork, build all the infrastructure.”
The shift from enterprise customers to hyperscaler clients came as cloud service providers from US and China increased their presence in the region.
BDC now works exclusively with a targeted number of hyperscale customers rather than pursuing retail or enterprise business.
datacentremagazine. com 53