AirTrunk Founder & CEO, Robin Khuda has been named The Australian Financial Review Business Person of the Year for 2024.
Robin was recognised for taking AirTrunk from “an unfunded idea” to the “biggest data centre deal in human history” creating the “unquestioned market leader in Asia” all in under a decade.
The AFR’s James Thomson writing about the keys to Robin’s success, said: “Khuda sees it less as a transaction and more as a moment for Australian business and the technology sector, when several big themes came together: the rise of the local data centre sector, the explosion in artificial intelligence deployment, the raw power of private capital and Khuda’s captivating story of entrepreneurship – the penniless student who arrived in Australia from Bangladesh, defied the doubters (and an empty bank account) and did something truly unique.”
Congratulations to Robin and joint winners Chemist Warehouse’s Jack Gance, Sam Gance and Mario Verrocchi as well as the AFR Business People of the Year Ryan Stokes, Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Matt Comyn, Leah Weckert and Greg Goodman.