Jagal Group Appoints Ayotunde Coker as MD of Rack Centre

The Jagal Group has appointed Ayotunde Coker as the new managing director of Rack Centre Limited starting in July.

Coker is a highly accomplished, commercially astute technology executive with over 25 years’ experience at company, board and executive committee levels.

He has international experience across Europe, USA, Asia and Africa with global blue chip organisations, such as GSK, ABN Amro, UBS, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and The Prudential.

He has held the position of Global Applications Director at BP the global oil and gas company, and prior to returning to Nigeria, was Chief Technology Officer for the United Kingdom Criminal Justice System.

He has also achieved industry leading ‘firsts’ in implementing PCIDSS, IFRS and ISO27001 and e-business in Banking.

In Nigeria, Coker was previously the Group CIO of Access Bank PLC where he launched a Data Centre that was acclaimed as the most sophisticated in West Africa.

He was central to the technology enabled business transformation and M&A that has enabled the bank achieve its current status in Africa.

He most recently served as the MD/CEO of EMP (Emerging Markets Payments) West Africa which is a leading African and Middle East payments company, where he succeeded in positioning the company as the ePayments leader in Nigeria and West Africa.

Coker has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK.

He is an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Nigeria, a member of the UK Institute of Directors and Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Rack Centre is a state-of-the-art, Tier III Certified data centre offering vendor-neutral colocation services. It is a revolutionary solution to the Region’s data centre requirements with future phases taking its capacity to over 6,000 square metres (65,000sqft) of energy efficient and secure data centre space.

The Board of Jagal Group would like to welcome Ayotunde Coker.