Salute appoints Robert Heikaus as MD Americas for data centers

Salute has announced that Robert Heikaus has joined the leadership team as Managing Director, Americas.

• Role and scope: Robert Heikaus will lead regional growth and operational strategy across North and South America, overseeing operations to ensure high-level reliability and scale for clients; he brings 20+ years of mission-critical sector experience, most recently as Global Alliance Director, Technical Division at CBRE GWS.
• Background and expertise: He is described as having a “zero-outage” mindset, served eight years at IBM as Data Center Facilities Operations Manager (US East and West regions) and led initiatives within IBM’s Global Center of Excellence to reduce outages; he holds an MSc in Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering from RPI and earlier roles include Senior Commissioning Engineer at EYP Mission Critical Facilities and Sales Engineer at APC-MGE (now Schneider Electric).