Antoine Boniface

As chief commercial officer of Vantage Data Centers in EMEA, Antoine Boniface is responsible for site selection, market intelligence, sales and sales engineering. With more than 15 years of experience, Boniface is an accomplished entrepreneur and leader, most recently serving as the president of Vantage’s EMEA business for four years before transitioning to his current role. Under his leadership, Vantage became the leading hyperscale data center platform in EMEA with more than 500 employees developing 12+ campuses across more than seven countries.

Prior to joining Vantage, Boniface served as the CEO and co-founder of Etix Everywhere, a company acquired by Vantage, where he raised more than €100 million of equity from five investors, developed 12 data centers across Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and led the company’s operations. Prior to Etix Everywhere, Boniface served as a data center project manager for Bouygues Construction where he led the development for some of the largest data centers in France.

Early in his career, Boniface co-founded and successfully exited two additional technology companies.

Boniface received a master’s degree in industrial and entrepreneurial engineering with a concentration in civil engineering at Ecole Centrale de Lille. He also earned a Master of Science degree in project management and business development at SKEMA Business School.

Boniface was recognized in 2017 with a Datacloud Global Award for data center leadership. He also won three entrepreneurship contests in France for the first company he co-founded.