James Chenery, the former head of international sales for financial services at Interxion, has set-up a consultancy aiming to help firms with their data storage strategies.

Chenery, who left Interxion earlier this year, founded Foxbase Consulting in June to advise clients on commercial strategy and special projects related to data centre strategy.

Chenery has already secured his first assignment, with Yondr Group, a developer and owner of large data centres.

He said: “Foxbase is currently carrying out a strategic project for Yondr Group, whose mission is to meet growing businesses' data center capacity and technical real estate needs faster and with better performance.”

Chenery was most recently at Interxion, the European data centre firm acquired by Digital Realty Company in March 2020, where he managed its global financial services portfolio of accounts.

He spent seven years at Interxion, which he joined in mid-2014 from MarketPrizm, the low latency data and trading services firm, where he worked for three years.

Previously, Chenery spent twelve years at Thomson Reuters as a business development manager in the data and tech giant’s enterprise solutions division, and three years as a relationship manager at data firm I/B/E/S.

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