Our team

Heading: The Team’s Background

Scandinavian Data Centers’s team combines senior expertise from a wide range of backgrounds such as:

·        Colocation development & operations

·        Hyperscale development & operations

·        Real Estate development

·        Management Consulting

·        Utility administration and operations

·        Finance

This multi-talented background enables a relevant understanding of customer requirements across IT, security, compliance, and business objectives translating them into data center environments designed for real world operations.

Heading. What drives us?

At SDC, the team is united by a shared commitment to building best in class digital infrastructure that serves the needs of its customers and communities. What brings the team together is a humble yet authentic ambition to create infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and designed for the future. The customers make their digital footprint matter by choosing SDC and enable the innovation and growth needed for setting a new circular standard for the sector.

The team’s approach is built on four key pillars:

Tangible value for customers and society:

The core strategy is circular models that maximize energy reuse and system efficiency.

Scalable processes and concepts:

A structured approach ensures efficient planning, execution, and optimization for every project, continuously refining our processes.

Strategic alliances with trusted partners:

SDC establishes long-term partnerships with municipalities and organizations to co-create synergies that drive both energy and data center transitions.

Empowered organization:

SDC recognizes that quality is driven by people. With clear goals we foster a company that can move fast and stay focused.

Why Scandinavian Data Centers?

ScandinavianData Centers offers a combination of secure infrastructure, circular energy architecture, and operational excellence.

  • High physical security sites
  • Design and Operational excellence
  • ESG and economic benefits from ecosystem approach
  • Dual use infrastructure improving resilience

Our vision:

We see a future where data centers power more than data — they power a better society.

Data centers hold untapped potential to strengthen energy systems, support communities, create resilience while at the same time accelerating the green transition. We aim to unlock this potential by rethinking how digital infrastructure interacts with the energy system and the world around it.

A winding road goes along the shore of a calm lake with several small islands.

Our mission:

We build and operate a scalable data center platform designed to maximize societal value per megawatt for customers, communities, and the energy system.

For us, societal value means actively contributing to grid stability and energy efficiency, increasing resilience, enabling heat recovery, and reducing overall carbon impact. Every megawatt we deploy is designed to deliver more than compute capacity — it is designed to strengthen the systems around it.

Simon Angeldorff

Simon Angeldorff

Co-CEO & Chief Innovation officer
Previously Goldman Sachs, AAC, SEB and CEO Envirotainer.
Svante Horn

Svante Horn

Co-CEO & Chief Commercial Officer
Previously Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, co-Founder Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute and co-Founder Rockan Data Center.
David Malmström

David Malmström

CFO
Previously SEB, CEO Vinovo and currently founder Mainstay Fastigheter.
Jascha Buckholt

Jascha Buckholt

Head of Site Development
Previously SEB, Bonnier and currently founder Mainstay Fastigheter.
Eva Ruben

Eva Ruben

Chief Operating Officer
Previously COO KPMG Sweden, COO Skincity. Industrial transformations projects. Civil Engineer.
Daniel Joyce

Daniel Joyce

Chief Development Officer
23 years of DC experence. Design, construction and operation. Global clients and hyperscalors.
Lars Tisén

Lars Tisén

Sales Director
Previously CCO at Digiplex (now STACK Infrastructure) and Conapto.
Ellinor Grape

Ellinor Grape

Sustainability & Communications Lead
Business Development Envirotainer. Sr Product Manager/Technical Project Manager Scania. MSc Engineering Physics.
Morgan Ledner 

Morgan Ledner 

Data Center Operations Lead
Previously Global head operations & security Volvo IT Data Centers (40 sites globally), Enaco & HCL Tech.
Bengt Johansson


Bengt Johansson


Electricity Lead
Previously Ellevio Head of Asset Management, EU Affairs and Market Design, Regulation & Legal.

Board Member & Senior Advisors

The SDC Board and advisory team has extensive experience in budgeting, designing, procurement, construction, operations and business development of Swedish and international data center and fiber operations.

Ann Wingård

Ann Wingård

External Board Member
Background in IT and critical infrastructure. Previously Business Area Manager Data Centers & Critical Infrastructure at Coromatic AB, COO at Conapto, and board member of the Swedish Data Center Association.
Niklas Lindqvist

Niklas Lindqvist

External Board Member
Background in IT and critical infrastructure. Previously Head of Technical Design at Coromatic AB, founder of AB 1992 Network, and board member of the Swedish Data Center Industry. Currently Nordic MD at Onnec.
Gary Lavelle

Gary Lavelle

Senior Advisor & Lead consultant DC Procurement & Budget
Previously Lead financial project manager for Meta & Microsoft data centers in Scandinavia
Eddie Kilbane


Eddie Kilbane


Strategic Advisor Data Center
Founder Kilon Holdings & L51. Previously worked with many blue-chip clients on DC developments.

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