Hawthorne data center and managed services provider Xand yesterday appointed West Coast technology executive Yatish Mishra as president and chief technology officer.
Mishra’s appointment comes just over a month after Xand announced the acquisition of Bethlehem, Pa.-based data center provider DBSi, more than doubling the company’s footprint.
Coupled with Xand’s March 2012 purchase of Access Northeast, based in Marlboro, Mass., the company has facilities in Hawthorne, Marlboro, Waterbury, Conn., and three in Pennsylvania, comprising more than 400,000 square feet of colocation, cloud, business continuity and managed services space.
Mishra joins Xand after 12 years as president and CEO of RagingWire, a California data center firm that he co-founded. Prior to that, he was corporate vice president of information technology at Photronics Inc., a public company working in the semiconductor industry.
With Xand, Mishra will be responsible for the company’s business and technology strategies.
Brian St. Jean, principal of Boston-based private equity firm ABRY Partners L.L.C., which bought Xand in late 2011, called Mishra”™s hiring a “tremendous victory for Xand.”
