GTT completed its Interoute acquisition this May, which added a number of high profile European clients to its portfolio, and it has now introduced a new leadership team for the region.
GTT has appointed Jesper Aagaard as Europe division president, with responsibility for clients in continental Europe. Aagaard was formerly managing director of Interoute in the Nordics and Netherlands.
In addition, Martin Ford has been brought in as UK division president, with responsibility for clients in the UK and Ireland and those in the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Ford previously served as GTT’s EMEA division president.
The new divisions complement the Americas division led by Eric Warren and the Carrier division led by Jeff Beer. The €1.9bn cash acquisition added 15 data centres, 17 virtual data centres and 51 colocation facilities to GTT's portfolio.
GTT says Interoute will enhance its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) service and expand its cloud infrastructure, edge and hosted services portfolio, not to mention improving its bottom line with 1,000 enterprise and carrier clients, mainly in Europe. Interoute carrier clients include BT, Vodafone and AT&T.
In 2015, Interoute completed the acquisition of Easynet, adding revenue of about €240m.
