Canberra – 3 September 2025:
Australian Data Centres (ADC), an industry pioneer committed to serving Australia’s sovereign and domestic national interests has appointed three more highly credentialled senior executives to its national leadership team following the appointment of Mark Pont as Chief Executive Officer. ADC Executive Chairman Rob Kelly said the three industry veterans would, under the leadership of Mr Pont, help to significantly grow ADC’s Australian footprint by attracting new global customers and industry partners.
“ADC’s management team is now fully loaded, future-focused and ready to offer a new scale of flexible co-location and build-to-suit sovereign data storage solutions tailored to our customers’ long-term requirements, whether they are seeking agility, control or cost efficiency,” Mr Kelly said.
Matt Holden has joined the ADC management team as Chief Operating Officer, with a strong focus on operational excellence and a unique blend of commercial and technical expertise. With more than 30 years of experience in Australia, he has led the design, construction,
commissioning, and operation of high-performance data centres and held senior executive roles across secure critical infrastructure, hyperscale cloud and AI environments. Most recently, he worked with leading hyperscale data centre providers and supported numerous enterprise-level operators through his leadership running their facilities at CBRE Data Center Solutions.
CEO Mark Pont said Mr Holden’s broad experience ensured that ADC customers could rely on discipled operations, guaranteed uptime and robust security. “Matt has an extensive track record serving both Australian Government and Defence clients, as well as major global
hyperscale customers. His ability to navigate the unique needs of these sectors positions ADC to deliver tailored, high-assurance solutions across next generation data centre environments,” Mr Pont added.
Greg Gale is the newly appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at ADC, following leadership roles at Microsoft, Cisco, and the Australian Department of Defence, where he served as CISO and led the establishment of the Australian Cyber Security Centre. Mr Pont
said that while at Microsoft, Mr Gale held pivotal roles such as National Security Officer (NSO).
“As the NSO Greg spearheaded the PROTECTED certification for Azure and Microsoft 365 – the first hyperscale cloud certification of its kind in Australia.”
He played a central role in expanding Microsoft Azure’s footprint, overseeing the security and risk aspects of new region deployments tailored for government and regulated industries. Greg also led the development of security requirements, design of secure cloud platforms and data centres to support high-security government workloads at the highest classification levels,” Mr Pont said.
Peter Adcock has joined ADC as Chief Technology Officer, bringing a wealth of experience in the design and construction of data centre developments across the Asia-Pacific region. He is also a published author and industry thought leader in sustainability and advanced cooling for AI data centres. Prior to joining ADC, Mr Adcock led the data centre design team for ARUP and also served as Asia Pacific Vice President of Design & Construction at Digital Realty for 12 years, during which time he oversaw the development of 21 data centres across Asia Pacific in eight metropolitan areas. These projects collectively delivered over 5.2 million square feet and 350MW of built IT capacity, providing seamless scalability for future expansion.
Mr Pont said Mr Adcock’s strong leadership and design experience in the creation of high density and AI environments and his deep knowledge of GPU workloads would be highly valuable as ADC worked to deliver sustainable and energy efficient build-to-suit solutions that
could adapt to evolving technology and service requirements.
“Peter’s deep engineering expertise and proven track record of delivering large-scale data centres on schedule and aligned to customer requirements make him an outstanding addition to our leadership team. His extensive experience perfectly aligns with ADC’s ambitious growth plans, enhancing our delivery capability and helping to de-risk highly advanced new campus builds. Peter’s leadership will be critical as we continue to scale our sovereign, AI-ready data centre footprint to meet the needs of our clients and Australia’s national capability,” Mr Pont added.