Board of Directors

Charles Meyers was appointed to the position of Executive Chairman in June 2024 after serving as President and CEO of Equinix and as a Board Member since 2018.  

In his role as Equinix CEO, Charles shaped the company’s strategy and continued industry leadership, including doubling the number of global IBX data centers, evolving the capabilities of Platform Equinix, building ecosystems with thousands of the world’s leading businesses as customers, and quadrupling revenues during his tenure.  

While at Equinix, Charles also served as President-Strategy, Services and Innovation, COO, and President, Americas region. Prior to joining Equinix, Charles held executive leadership positions at leading technology and IT companies, including Verisign, Level 3 Communications and BellSouth.     

In addition to Equinix, Charles currently sits on the Board of Directors of Fastly, a public company, and is Chairman at Level 5 Capital Partners.    

Charles earned dual Master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and McCormick Graduate School of Engineering in Evanston, Illinois. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder.    

Adaire Fox-Martin serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Equinix and is responsible for leading the overall strategy and direction of the business. She was appointed in June 2024 and has been a member of the Equinix Board of Directors since 2020.    

Adaire has established a distinguished 25+ year track record in the technology sector. She was previously President of Go-to-Market for Google Cloud and Head of Google Ireland. In this role, she led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally, encompassing sales, professional services, partner ecosystem, and customer success. Prior to Google, she had board-level positions at SAP and executive leadership roles at Oracle.   

Adaire is a passionate advocate of social entrepreneurship. She was Global Executive Sponsor for Social Enterprise at Google and is the founder of One Billion Lives, a global initiative helping organizations apply their core business, internal resources, and ecosystems to form social ventures that deliver humanitarian and environmental impact.   

Adaire is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and maintains citizenship in Ireland, the European Union, and Australia.   

Nanci Caldwell has served as an Equinix Board Member since December 2015.  

Since 2005, Nanci has been a corporate director of many public and private companies. She is also the Co-Founder of the Center for Conscientious Leadership. Prior to these roles, Nanci served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of PeopleSoft from 2001 to 2004. Before joining PeopleSoft, Nanci spent nearly two decades at Hewlett Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in both Canada and the U.S.  

Nanci currently serves as a board member at CIBC and Procore Technologies, both public companies. 

Nanci holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and completed Western University’s Executive Marketing Management Program. 

Gary Hromadko has served as a member of Equinix’s Board since June 2003.  

Gary is a Venture Capital and Private Equity investor focused mainly on software and communications infrastructure companies. He was a Venture Partner at Crosslink Capital until 2020. He has been an active private investor since 1993. 

Throughout his career, Gary has served on boards for several privately held companies including American Giant, SeaMicro, and Carbonite. 

Gary received his Master of Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He received his Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. 

Thomas Olinger has served as a member of Equinix’s Board since January 2023.  

Tom is an industry veteran with extensive international business expertise spanning the real estate and technology sectors. He was most recently Chief Financial Officer at Prologis (and AMB, its predecessor) from 2007 through 2022. He has significant U.S. and international IPO, capital markets and M&A experience which has made him a recognized leader and highly respected in the investor and analyst communities.   

Prior to Prologis, Tom served as Vice President, Corporate Controller at Oracle. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, spending 14 years at the firm, the last three as an audit partner in both the U.S. real estate and technology groups.  

Since 2011, Tom has served as a board member of American Assets Trust, a public real estate company. He also serves on the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Dean's Council, the University of Notre Dame Fitzgerald Institute of Real Estate Advisory Board, the University of San Diego Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate Policy Advisory Board, and as Vice Chair of the Carondelet High School Board of Trustees. 

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, Indiana.  

Christopher Paisley has served as a member of Equinix’s Board since 2007 and as Lead Independent Director since February 2012.  

Chris has been the Dean's Executive Professor of Accounting at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California since 2001. Prior to this, Chris was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of 3Com.  

In addition to the Equinix Board, Chris currently serves as a board member at Ambarella and Fastly, both public companies. 

Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School at the University of California at Los Angeles. 

Jeetu Patel has served as a member of Equinix’s Board since 2022.  

Jeetu was appointed EVP & Chief Product Officer at Cisco in August 2024 and previously was Cisco's Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration. In addition to leading the strategy and development for these businesses, he also owns P&L responsibility for this multibillion-dollar portfolio. Jeetu combines a bold vision, expertise in product design and development, operational rigor and market understanding to create high-growth technology businesses. Prior to Cisco, Jeetu held leadership roles at Box and EMC. 

In addition to the Equinix Board, Jeetu currently serves as a board member at JLL, a public company. 

Jeetu holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago. 

Sandra Rivera has served as a member of Equinix’s Board since 2019. 

Sandra is Chief Executive Officer of Altera, an Intel Company. Sandra leads Altera as a standalone business focused on development of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that are used across the data center, communications, industrial, automotive, aerospace and defense markets. Prior to her current role, Sandra was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Datacenter and AI Group at Intel Corporation where she led Intel’s development of leadership data center products for a cloud-based world and Intel’s overall artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and product roadmap. 

From 2019-2021, Sandra was Intel’s Chief People Officer leading Intel’s Human Resources organization worldwide. In that role, she was responsible for greater business results through a culture which embraces diversity and inclusion. She also previously led the Network Platforms Group. Sandra joined Intel in 2000 as a marketing director after the acquisition of Dialogic Corporation.  

Before joining Intel, Sandra co-founded and served as president of The CTI Authority and served as president of the computer telephony division at Catalyst Telecom. 

Sandra is a member of Berkeley’s Engineering Advisory Board and the Altera Operating Committee.   

Sandra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.  

Fidelma Russo has served as a member of Equinix’s Board since 2022. 

Fidelma is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Hybrid Cloud business unit, and the company's Chief Technology Officer. Fidelma is responsible for driving the strategic direction, development, and execution of HPE's GreenLake platform, storage, private cloud, and SaaS solutions, along with creating an innovation pipeline through the capabilities and services of the Office of the CTO. Fidelma joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in September 2021 as Chief Technology Officer, where she led the creation, development, and delivery of HPE's GreenLake platform, a central offering for all HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions and cloud services. 

Prior to joining HPE, Fidelma held leadership roles at companies that include VMware, Iron Mountain, and Dell EMC.  

Fidelma currently serves as a board member of HP International Bank and previously served as a board member of SBA Communications and Wolters Kluwer, both public companies. 

Fidelma holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from University College Cork in Ireland. She also completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Peter Van Camp was appointed to the position of Special Advisor to the Board in June 2024, after serving as Executive Chairman since 2007.  

Peter is a seasoned business leader with more than 40 years’ experience bringing internet, IT, and telecommunications-related technologies to life.   

Peter has been a driving force behind Equinix’s success, joining the company as CEO in 2000, before subsequently serving as President and CEO and Chairman of the Board. He helped guide Equinix through its early years, ultimately emerging as one of the largest digital infrastructure providers globally.    

His extensive experience extends to his time at UUNET, the Internet division of MCI (formerly WorldCom), where he served as President of Internet Markets and the Americas region from 1997 to 2000. Prior, Peter provided significant leadership contributions to Compuserve Network Services, serving as President from 1995 to 1997 and in other various roles from 1982 to May 1995.    

Beyond his corporate commitments, he extends his influence as a board member for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, seeking to transform our understanding of cancer and develop new approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of all forms of this disease.   

Peter graduated from Boston College with Bachelor of Science degrees in Accounting and  Computer Science.