
Companies can help build a more inclusive world. Here's how
We live in a world of smart, connected ovens, but one in which 795 million people do not have enough food to eat. We are witnessing exponential growth, but also great inequality.
Adaire Fox-Martin is CEO and President of Equinix, the world’s largest data center company. In this role, she is responsible for all facets of strategy, operations, and execution in the organization, including the construction of data-center capacity, the development of solutions and services to simplify infrastructure provisioning, and the continual improvement in the value and experience customers and partners realize when engaging with Equinix.
Appointed in 2024, Adaire leads the company’s 13,700 employees in the innovation, sale, operation, and administration of the industry’s most expansive data-center footprint: 280 data centers in 77 markets serving more than 10,500 customers. Together with the Equinix Executive Leadership Team, she has defined and executed a strategy reinforcing Equinix’s core retail colocation leadership, while also making the most of the multi-year infrastructure investment cycle supporting the advancement of artificial intelligence.
Adaire has also been a member of the Equinix Board of Directors since 2020, a role she continues as CEO and President.
Adaire has established a distinguished 25-year track record in the technology sector. She was previously President of Go-to-Market for Google Cloud and Head of Google Ireland. In this role, she led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally, encompassing sales, professional services, partner ecosystem, and customer success. Prior to Google, she had board and executive-level positions at SAP, as well as executive leadership roles at Oracle.
Adaire is a passionate advocate of social entrepreneurship and social impact. She was Global Executive Sponsor for Social Enterprise at Google and currently serves on the Board of the Equinix Foundation, whose purpose is to enable an accessible, sustainable, and interconnected digital future for more people.
Adaire is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
We live in a world of smart, connected ovens, but one in which 795 million people do not have enough food to eat. We are witnessing exponential growth, but also great inequality.

