About

Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Equinix, Inc., a global colocation and interconnection company, since April 2007 and he is the current Chairman of the Board’s Governance Committee.Prior to becoming Executive Chairman, Peter served as Equinix’s Chief Executive Officer and as a director from May 2000 and as President from March 2006.

Prior to joining Equinix, Peter was employed at UUNET from January 1997 to May 2000 as President of Internet Markets and President of the Americas region.Prior to UUNET, from May 1995 to January 1997, Peter was President of Compuserve Network Services, and before that held various positions at Compuserve from October 1982 to May 1995.Peter currently serves as the lead independent director and as a member of the Audit Committee of Silver Spring Networks Inc., and serves on the Board of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.  Peter has previously held directorships at  Packeteer, Inc., Paradyne Networks, Inc. and Pi-Coral, Inc.Peter earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Boston College.