Mar 15, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five continents at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), he joined the company's Engineering and Construction division. Mark, based in São Paulo, will lead teams in data center design and project management, site installation, and implementation across Latin America. Scala is growing rapidly. With operations in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile, the company has already put more than $1.1 billion into its projects in Latin America. Over the next five years, it hopes to reach 500 MW of distributed capacity.
With 13 years spent exclusively in the data center sector and more than 20 years of experience working in mission-critical environments, Mark has taken part in the global deployment of more than 400MW of capacity. As Senior Manager of Data Center New Region Construction in the US, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa markets at Oracle, he worked on significant initiatives to increase the company's cloud capillarity from five to forty areas. He was Data Center Build's Senior Technical Program Manager, overseeing infrastructure deployment and production in 10 countries, colocation, construction, and cabling teams.
Also, he worked with DaVita as a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer and McKinstry as a Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer and Special Projects Manager. He worked as a US Army soldier in Afghanistan, overseeing all the network connections for the air conditioning and generators at facilities in arid regions. Five data centers are currently in use by Scala, which was founded in 2020. Three of them are on Campus Tamboré, the largest campus in Latin America, which is situated in Barueri, one is in So Paulo, and the other two are in Campinas. The company intends to construct 11 more data centers by 2023.
