Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, July 2025 – Digital Connexion, a full spectrum provider of highly connected and scalable data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, today announced the appointment of CR Srinivasan as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Srinivasan brings over three decades of leadership experience across the telecom, IT, cybersecurity, and digital services sectors. He has a proven track record of building and scaling high-growth businesses, including data center, cloud, cybersecurity, and SD-WAN services. Before joining Digital Connexion, Srini served as the CEO of Sify Digital Services Limited and has previously led the Tata Communications’ cloud and cybersecurity business unit, significantly scaling its business and cultivating high performance teams. Under his leadership, Digital Connexion will continue to unlock new opportunities, foster innovation, and accelerate the platform’s growth.
India has the second largest number of active internet users globally. Additionally, its domestic Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is projected to more than triple to $17 billion by 2027, making it one of the fastest-growing AI economies globally.* With digitalization playing a key role in reshaping the future, there is an opportunity for rapid adoption of technologies with increasing demand for robust digital infrastructure. As cloud service providers, hyperscalers, and enterprises expand their digital footprint, Digital Connexion is well positioned to provide solutions that meet this capacity, as well as the connectivity needs with a full spectrum of offerings.
“I am pleased to join a fantastic team at Digital Connexion. Together with our partners, we are committed to building future-ready infrastructure that enables innovation, accelerates digital transformation, and creates long-term value for our customers in India and globally,” said Srinivasan, CEO of Digital Connexion.
He has a Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication degree from Madras University. Digital Connexion combines the complementary strengths of Brookfield, Reliance Jio and Digital Realty to operate state-of-the-art digital infrastructure in India delivering global standards of design, operations and management. It is investing in over 140MW of AI-ready data center capacity across Chennai and Mumbai in its first wave of investment to meet growing hyperscale and enterprise demand.
Digital Connexion is a joint venture (JV) between Brookfield Asset Management (Brookfield), Reliance Industries Limited and Digital Realty. The company provides the full spectrum of highly connected and scalable data center, colocation and interconnection solutions to meet the critical infrastructure needs of enterprises and digital services companies in India, and brings together enterprises, network service, cloud and IT providers to give customers and partners a key connectivity gateway to Europe, the Middle, East, Africa and Asia. The JV combines the complementary strengths of Jio’s massive digital and connectivity ecosystem in India and tech capabilities with Brookfield, one of the largest owners and operators of critical global infrastructure, and Digital Realty, provider of the world’s largest data center platform enabling customers with access to over 50 metros across six continents.
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