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Aroosh has served as chief executive officer for Northern Data since 2020. Previously, he founded and led a number of companies. In 2013 he became deeply interested in the High Performance Computing area and founded the Whinstone Group in 2014. Aroosh is an entrepreneur with passion, he is distinguished through his keen sense for upcoming market developments and demands and his early anticipation of customer needs.

Christopher joined Northern Data as President in November 2021 and became Group Chief Commercial Officer in January 2023. A native of the U.S., he began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co and subsequently spent more than eleven years as part of the international management team at Morgan Stanley International, including three years as Head of EMEA Interest Rate Distribution in New York and London. Subsequently, as Managing Director and Global Head of Interest Rate Distribution Deutsche Bank, Christopher was responsible for all interest rate distribution to institutional client groups and was responsible for Global Listed Derivatives and Markets Clearing as well as securitized products in the Americas. Following this, he successfully worked as a Senior Advisor and Head of European Capital Solutions for The Carlyle Group and was a Senior Advisor for BottlePay and AIX which both had successful exits in 2021.

Gülsen was named Chief Financial Officer of Northern Data in January 2023 and brings more than 25 years of profitable, growth-oriented financial leadership and transformation expertise to the Company. Her experience spans a diverse range of multibillion-dollar organizations, including United Airlines, A&P, and AIG. Prior to joining Northern Data in July 2022, Gülsen served as Chief Financial Officer of East Region and Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services. Gülsen holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and an MBA from University of Georgia. She began her career at Federal Express.

Rosanne is a highly experienced commercial business professional with extensive experience of global, international and emerging markets, having managed client portfolios across technology, data & analytics, insurance and wealth sectors. She has an extensive track record in delivering solution-centred strategic and operational business enablement. This has included developing and executing end to end organisation wide transformation projects, restructuring and organisational design, market growth programs, managing complex change and product innovation. In addition Rosanne has significant experience and specialties in the area of commercial operations, business performance, change and performance improvement, private equity, scale up and M&A. Rosanne has a degree in Commerce and a Master’s in Organizational Effectiveness from the University of Johannesburg.

Jim has over 25 years of legal experience, most of which he spent at leading international firms, including most recently at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Jim worked for more than 10 years in Germany, where he was a partner at White & Case LLP and headed the US corporate and capital markets practice. Jim’s focus in private practice was on complex, cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions, including many for well-known German companies, and his experience is ideally suited for meeting the dynamic, multi-jurisdictional legal needs of Northern Data. Jim is fully bilingual in English and German. He has a Juris Doctor and a Master of Arts in German Literature from the University of Virginia, and he was a Bosch Fellow in Berlin following his law studies.

Corey is drawing on over 25 years of experience in data colocation, cloud services, and cryptocurrency mining. Before Northern Data he served as Head of Data Center Operations and Chief Operating Officer for North America at Bitdeer. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President at INAP, a provider of IT infrastructure, data center, network, and cloud solutions. Additionally, he ran Data Center Operation, Engineering & Construction at Latisys / Zayo Group.

Niek is a multi-specialist leader within start-ups and scale-ups in the technology sector, with expertise in corporate finance, corporate development, business development, strategy, growth, operations and product ownership. Before joining Northern Data in January 2022, he was Vice President of Operations & Business Development at Bitfield, a bitcoin mining company which was acquired by Northern Data in September 2021. Prior to this, he was Country Manager DACH at Gain.pro, a private equity deal-sourcing platform. Niek holds a Master in Econometrics and Management Science, Specialization: Quantitative Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and started his career as off-cycle analyst at Deutsche Bank.

Boasting years of leadership in creating cloud-based enterprise solutions, Karl brings a breadth of experience and knowledge to Northern Data’s Cloud Solutions Division. Before joining Northern Data in March 2023, he worked for Amazon Web Services as Head of the EMEA Go-to-market for the AWS & Accenture Business Group, overseeing jointly-created cloud and industry solutions to address customers’ biggest transformation and growth challenges. Before that, he led GFT Group’s award-winning Google Cloud Alliance. Karl started his first job in “the real world” as Commercial Engineer at GEC after serving 10 years as an Electronic & Communications Engineer in the British Army.

Dr Tom Oliver Schorling was for many years a Partner at international law firms such as White & Case and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he conceived, structured and implemented numerous deals in the billion-euro bracket. Dr Schorling is one of Germany’s most renowned attorneys and a member of several supervisory boards. In addition, he currently holds senior advisory and investment roles in various tech companies.

Bertram Pachaly has been managing director of a management consulting company and a software company for many years, focusing on the development of new capabilities of global information technology and life sciences companies. In his previous positions as manager at Accenture and as Lab Director at Icon Medialab, he combined technology and business administration in international projects as a graduate physicist and MBA. Recurring topics were cloud computing, IT security and value-based sales as well as the implementation of effective organizational structures, target-oriented key figures and virtual learning platforms.

Dr Bernd Hartmann is a Managing Director at RoskosMeier, the largest Allianz insurance agency in Berlin. As an independent broker, he develops economic insurance solutions to meet the complex requirements of his predominantly large industrial clients. His main areas of interest include, among others, financial loss liability insurance and the installation of retirement pension insurance and reinsurance. With a doctorate in mineralogy, he holds particular expertise in the renewable energy field with a focus on photovoltaics as well as electrical and thermal energy storage systems. Dr Hartmann also plays a committed role in the Allianz Children’s Aid Fund, the Allianz Cultural Foundation, the Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation Board of Trustees and the management boards of Frankfurt Intern e.V. and Marketingclub Berlin.