London, United Kingdom, January 2025 – Kate Hennessy has joined EXA Infrastructure as its new Chief Financial Officer. With over two decades of experience spanning telecommunications, fibre infrastructure, and digital transformation, Kate will be responsible for steering EXA Infrastructure’s financial strategy and supporting its mission to provide world-class digital infrastructure solutions connecting Europe and North America.
Kate transitions to EXA Infrastructure following her role as Chief Financial Officer at Verne Global, where she led financial operations for over two years in the data centre industry. At Verne, she focused on driving growth and operational efficiencies to solidify the company’s position as a leader in sustainable data centre solutions.
Prior to this, Kate served as Group CFO at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, where she spent three years leading complex mergers and acquisitions and establishing financial frameworks that supported significant business expansion. Before taking on the Group CFO role, she held the position of Chief of Mergers and Acquisitions at Liquid, where she successfully managed transformative deals that shaped the company’s growth trajectory.
Earlier in her career, Kate spent over a decade at Liquid Telecom as Group CFO, overseeing financial operations and strategic initiatives during a period of exponential growth in the telecommunications sector. Her earlier professional experiences include roles at Cable & Wireless, where she honed her expertise in fibre infrastructure and financial audits, and KPMG South Africa, where she began her career focusing on TMT companies.
About EXA Infrastructure
EXA Infrastructure is an award-winning portfolio company of I Squared Capital and the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting Europe and North America. With over 20 years of experience in building resilient networks, EXA provides mission-critical digital infrastructure for governments, enterprises, and hyperscale businesses.
Headquartered in London, EXA Infrastructure owns 155,000 kilometres of fibre network across 37 countries, including six transatlantic cables and the lowest latency link between Europe and North America.
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