David Rowe (entrepreneur)

David Rowe
David Rowe CEO of Hydro66
Born
David Stanley Rowe

December 18th 1958
Plymouth, UK
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Portsmouth (Business BA 1981) Coventry University (Computer Science MSc)
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Philanthropist
Years active1990-present
TitleChairman and CEO of Sixty Six Capital, Chairman of Black Green Capital, (former) CEO of Hydro66 Inc and Easynet, Co-founder of CSBI (Poland), Co-founder of Cyberia, London
PartnerEva Pascoe
Children3
Websitehttps://www.sixtysixcapital.com/

David Rowe (born 1958) is a London-based high tech entrepreneur who founded Easynet,[1][2] a U.K. ISP in 1994, alongside Cyberia, one of the world's first commercial cybercafes. In recent years, he has founded his own high-tech venture capital business Black Green Capital in 2013[3] as well as founding Hydro66[4] an Ultra Green Datacentre project based out of Boden, Sweden.[5]

In 2005, Rowe was selected by the National Portrait Gallery for entrepreneurship in Telecoms and the Internet.[6] David competes for the GB team in age group triathlon and duathlon events[7]

  1. ^ "Easynet: David Rowe - Startups.co.uk: Starting a business advice and business ideas". startups.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02.
  2. ^ David Rowe: European Easy Rider
  3. ^ Crouch, David (22 October 2014). "UK firm takes the cloud to chillier climes with Swedish data centre". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "Green Cloud Infrastructure | David Rowe appointed as CEO". Green Cloud Infrastructure. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  5. ^ "Hydro66 Investor Information | Cloud and Colocation Data Center". Green Cloud Infrastructure. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  6. ^ "David Rowe - National Portrait Gallery".
  7. ^ https://triathlon.org/athletes/profile/161893/david_rowe