Roderick de Boer is the Director of Business Development for Africa at Equinix where he leads a team that works with large Service Provider and Enterprise customers to place Interconnection at the heart of their digital strategy for Africa. Roderick has led service design, digital infrastructure and application design teams at a number of large network service providers and consultancy firms and is passionate about the role of digital ecosystems in business today. As well as his role in Africa, Roderick has been involved in defining the strategy on some of the projects at Equinix globally that cover topics including 5G and Edge-Computing.