TOP 100 LEADERS

Title: Founder and CEO Company: AirTrunk Industry: Technology

Robin sets the strategic direction for AirTrunk as it continues its rapid expansion across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The founder and CEO has helped to establish AirTrunk as the region’ s leading hyperscale data centre provider, enabling cloud and artificial intelligence growth. A visionary entrepreneur, Robin anticipated the need for an independent hyperscale platform to support large technology companies’ capacity requirements. Under his leadership, AirTrunk became one of the world’ s fastestgrowing technology companies. In 2024, a Blackstone-led consortium acquired AirTrunk in a A $ 24bn transaction- the largest-ever data centre deal globally at the time and Australia’ s biggest deal that year. Robin has been named‘ Business Person of the Year’ by the Australian Financial Review, while he has also won the‘ APAC Digital Infrastructure Leader’ award. In 2025, he joined The Business Council of Australia’ s Board of Directors. He was a founding member of NEXTDC and has held numerous leadership roles in multinational tech companies in APAC.

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