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Danny Keeper is the founder and Director of Datalec Precision Installations.  A qualified Electrical Engineer, Dan has over 26 years’ experience within the construction and Data Centre industry working for well respected M&E contractors such as Emcor, Phoenix and PIP Electrical.

Early in his career Daniel worked overseeing cable installations on a number of projects which led to him managing Data Centre fit-outs.  Since branching out and setting up Datalec in 2012, the company has grown year on year to where it is today working for some of the worlds’ largest cloud providers and is expanding rapidly across the US, Europe and Asia.  Daniel has strong leadership skills and his focus on detail and always delivering to exceed expectations drives the Datalec culture to maintain their reputation as leaders in their field.

Stuart Richmond is a Director of Datalec Precision Installations. Following an early passion for motorcycles, Stuart realized he could continue this as a hobby and decided to pursue an education in engineering.  Stuart was introduced to electrical engineering through a friend he met playing football and started looking after multiservice projects in 2005.  He has been lucky enough to work in several different sectors including healthcare, residential, aviation, network rail, London underground and education.  Stuart joined Datalec in 2014 where he is passionate about ‘self delivery’ to ensure his clients always get the best level of service from his team.

Prior to Datalec, where he spent 18 months as Chairman, Stephen spent 12 years as COO at Bridgehouse Capital, a UK family office, and a further 2 years as CEO at a boutique London based Investment Bank. During this time he gained significant private equity experience and participated in multiple sector M&A activities. Stephen has achieved considerable experience in the Data Centre space and has held senior positions in several related companies including Deep Blue Cable (CEO), Global Marine Systems (Commercial Director), PSiNet Europe (CEO), Sentrum Data Centres (COO) and Global Switch (Sales Director). Stephen is a retired Naval Officer with an honours degree in engineering.

Meyrick joined Datalec Precision Installations in 2020 as Chief Financial Officer. Meyrick has a significant CFO and Commercial Director background across multiple industries including Telecoms, Professional Services, FMCG & Film/TV. Within these industries Meyrick has experience of all aspects of commercial, financial, operational & business transformation with a particular focus on M&E systems and data centres.

Aligned to his professional background Meyrick is also an experienced Non-Executive Director in both public and private sectors including being Chair of the Audit Committee for National Archives.

Lee Eiffert is the Director responsible for Connectivity services across the Datalec Business.  A Prince 2 practitioner and a member of association of project management, he began his career in the Armed Forces and spent over a year on active duty during which he was awarded a Major General’s Commendation as well as receiving a General Service Medal for the tour.  Shortly after leaving the Services, an opportunity opened to establish a career in the Structured Cabling Industry. Progressing from an installation engineer through to project management, and then fulfilling a senior management role responsible for an operations business unit, implementing IT Infrastructure, networks and connectivity throughout the UK and Europe as part of a large organisation.  During the last 20 years Lee has been fortunate enough to work on many interesting projects,  most notably the Kings Cross Comms Regeneration, BBC Broadcasting House and as Programme Lead for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games where he was ultimately responsible for providing IT connectivity, satellite infrastructure and support services for all 21 off Olympic park venues across the UK.

Steve has been contracts manager at Datalec Precision Installations for 2 years but has worked within the industry across all sectors for over 30 years.  His experience covers the largest M&E installation in London (@Nova) where he worked as client liaison.

Robert is a time served electrician and has several years’ experience working across Europe with Datalec as an Electrical Contract Manager in the fast paced ‘white space delivery’ arena. Following a period of living and working in Spain until 2010, Rob gained valuable experience supervising various electrical installations across London for Bresco Electrical & MJL including 2012 Olympic sites in London & Ireland.

Daran is a project supervisor with Datalec Precision Installations with nearly 30 years’ experience in the industry and 20 years’ experience in the Cabling arena.  His experience ranges from data comms, to Cat6, OM3 & OS1 and large-scale copper/fibre structured installations. He has worked in the middle east.  As a technical lead Daran is a hands-on member of the team with multiple technical qualifications and accreditations to support his work and experience.

James Marshall is Project Account Manager for Datalec Precision Installations responsible for developing and growing the DPI connectivity team.  A qualified dive master, James has worked in the IT industry since college and specialized in IT structured cabling for nearly 20 years following industry advancements from CAT 3 to current Hyper Scale environments and ODF solutions.  James is experienced in working across Europe delivering critical, technical migrations and developing and designing ODF solutions within legacy data centres.

Lukasz is an Engineering and R&D Manager at Datalec.  Originally from Poland he has an MA in Spatial Management from Adam Mickiewicz University and worked in project management for multiple companies in Poland before moving to the UK in 2012.  He has worked in the Data Centre industry for over 6 years on multiple global projects with past clients including Amazon.

Jake is the Commercial Manager for the Datalec Group.  He has a degree in Quantity Surveying and over 10 years’ experience working in construction before moving into the Data Centre industry.  Jake originally met Datalec as a client on the Royal Opera House – Open Up Project.  Since then he has worked with Datalec on key client accounts as commercial manager. He is an experienced quantity surveyor with responsibility for all areas of commercial management.