Eben Owen has been affiliated with the datacentre industry since 1999. He’s broad knowledge of power and cooling systems started with American Power Conversion in 2000 as district manager for Southern Africa. He relocated to the United Kingdom in 2004 where his skills were utilised by APC UK and Ireland as Systems Engineer.

After designing and deploying a number of datacentre across the UK, Eben decided to join Datacentience, a datacentre consultancy in London, from where he moved to Emerson Network Power (Vertiv) in 2008.

Eben returned to South Africa 2010 where he spend another 3 years with Schneider Electric as Enterprise and Solutions manager for Southern Africa. In 2014 Eben joined FIAMM (FZSONICK), an Italian battery manufacturer as Country Manager for Africa, with a close affiliation to UPS and battery systems.

Eben joined The Uptime Institute in July 2018 as Sales Director for English Speaking Africa. He is married with 3 kids, an avid hobby electronics enthusiast and enjoy the outdoor life.