David Rowe (entrepreneur)

David Rowe (born 1958) is a London-based high tech entrepreneur who founded Easynet,[1][2] a U.K. ISP in 1994, alongside Cyberia, one of the world's first commercial cybercafes. In recent years, he has founded his own high-tech venture capital business Black Green Capital in 2013[3] as well as being the CEO of Hydro66[4] an Ultra Green Datacentre project based out of Boden, Sweden.[5]

For other people named David Rowe, see David Rowe (disambiguation).
David Rowe
David Rowe CEO of Hydro66
Born
David Stanley Rowe

December 18th 1958
Plymouth, UK
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Portsmouth (Business BA 1981) Coventry University (Computer Science MSc)
OccupationEntrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Philanthropist
Years active1990-present
TitleCEO of Hydro66, Chairman of Black Green Capital, (former) CEO of Easynet, Co-founder of CSBI and SP.Z, Co-founder of Cyberia, London
Partner(s)Eva Pascoe
Children3
Websitehttps://www.hydro66.com/

In 2005, Rowe was selected by the National Portrait Gallery for entrepreneurship in Telecoms and the Internet.[6]

Early Life and Career

David was brought up in Plymouth, England and went to the local comprehensive school: Plymstock Comprehensive. In 1977, David went to Portsmouth Polytechnic sponsored by Kodak to study Business Studies (BA) and on completion moved to Singapore to teach English. Whilst there David played football for Tiong Bahru and helped win the Presidents Cup in 1982.[7] From Singapore David went to Tokyo and studied Japanese and taught English from 1983-1986. On return to England David completed an MSc in Computing at Coventry University and went on to co-found CSBI in Poland in 1990, a banking software start-up in Poland sold in 1994 to Computerland.[8]

Business career

In 1994, David founded Easynet,[1][2] a U.K. ISP, alongside Cyberia, one of the world's first commercial cybercafes. Easynet was one of the first Internet companies in the U.K. to list on AIM in 1996, and subsequently on the LSE in 1999.[9] Easynet created subsidiaries in a number of European countries and pioneered alternative local loop infrastructure in the UK.[10] In 2001, Easynet merged with Ipsaris, the U.K. fibre optic infrastructure provider owned by Marconi. In 2006, Easynet was bought by BSkyB for £211m[11] and Rowe worked for James Murdoch as part of the Sky management team. In 2010, Rowe led the buyout team of Easynet Corporate services from Sky alongside LDC, a UK private equity company owned by Lloyds Bank.[12]

In 2013, David left Easynet to start his own high tech venture capital business Black Green Capital.[13]

Among the investments was Hydro66 an Ultra Green Datacenter project optimised for minimum carbon footprint using hydropower and based in Northern Sweden.[5] David became Chairman and in 2018 Hydro66 listed on the Canadian secondary stock exchange (CSE)[14] via a reverse take-over.[15] In 2019 David became the CEO of Hydro66.[4]

References
  1. http://startups.co.uk/easynet-david-rowe/
  2. David Rowe: European Easy Rider
  3. Crouch, David (22 October 2014). "UK firm takes the cloud to chillier climes with Swedish data centre". The Guardian.
  4. September 23; 2019 (2019-09-23). "GREEN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE | David Rowe appointed as CEO". GREEN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE. Retrieved 2021-01-15.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "Hydro66 Investor Information | Cloud and Colocation Data Center". GREEN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  6. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw87917/David-Rowe?LinkID=mp72197&role=sit&rNo=0
  7. "Club History – Tiong Bahru Football Club". Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  8. "ComputerLand kupił CSBI". Computerworld (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  9. http://www.telecompaper.com/news/easynet-to-be-listed-on-main-london-stock-exchange--166915
  10. "Easynet encroach into BT's last mile". Computer Weekly. January 2001. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  11. Deans, Jason (21 October 2005). "BSkyB buys Easynet for £211m". The Guardian.
  12. http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/2635798/Search/Results/Bank-buys-Easynet-from-Murdoch.html?Keywords=Easynet#.U33cZl5N1Fw
  13. "Our Team | Black Green Capital". Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  14. "Hydro66 Holdings Corp. | CSE - Canadian Securities Exchange". thecse.com. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  15. Ltd, Arctic Blockchain. "Arctic Blockchain Completes Financing and Acquisition of Hydro66". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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