Uptime Institute today announced the appointment of Jeff Wood to the position of Vice President, North America. In his new position, Wood is responsible for directing all commercial aspects of Uptime Institute market penetration and service delivery across U.S. and Canada.
Wood is an industry expert with over 20 years of experience in the digital infrastructure market primarily in the hardware, power, and connection space. His principal goal is to increase Uptime Institute consulting and certification revenue throughout the United States and Canada, to participate in appropriate product/service development, as well as to ensure the consistency of Uptime service delivery. He joins Uptime Institute from Wesco/Anixter, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, where he served as Vice President HVAC & DCIM, and was responsible for building Power and HVAC market share as well as supporting global deployments. Wood also developed programs and initiatives between Partners and Market Supplier Teams to drive sales engagement strategies within local markets. Prior to Wesco/Anixter, Wood held positions at companies including MGE UPS Systems, and Tripp Lite.
“We are pleased to welcome Jeff Wood join our team,” said Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer, Uptime Institute. “His strong industry background and expertise will serve both our organization and its customers. Jeff Wood’s strategic industry knowledge will help North American clients improve reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness and will be instrumental to our continued growth in North America.”
This position, along with multiple new additions, are key to Uptime Institute’s plans for expanded growth and serve to create a larger global presence for the organization’s products and services, building upon the prestigious Tier Standard and Certifications and continuing to launch new offerings, like the Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessment.
About Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute is the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority. With over 3,500 awards issued in over 118 countries around the globe, and over 1,000 currently active projects in 80+ countries, Uptime has helped tens of thousands of companies optimize critical IT assets while managing costs, resources, and efficiency.
For over 30 years, the company has established industry-leading benchmarks for data center performance, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency, which provide customers assurance that their digital infrastructure can perform across a wide array of operating conditions at a level consistent with their individual business needs. Uptime’s Tier Standard is the IT industry’s most trusted and adopted global standard for the design, construction, and operation of data centers. Offerings include the organization’s Tier Standard and Certifications, Management & Operations reviews and assessment including SCIRA-FSI financial sector risk assessment, the Sustainability Assessment and a broad range of additional risk management, performance, availability, and related offerings. Uptime Education training programs have been successfully completed by over 90,000 data center professionals, expanded by the acquisition of CNet Training, Ltd. In 2023.
Uptime Institute is headquartered in New York, NY, with main offices in London, Sao Paulo, Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore, and Taipei, and full-time Uptime professionals based in over 34 countries around the world. For more information, please visit uptimeinstitute.com.
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