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AIC is a global investment and management advisory platform for data centres and digital infrastructure. AIC provides active direct investment and access to venture funding and growth capital in support of “next generation” digital infrastructure programmes in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets worldwide.Significant investment has been attracted to the digital sector globally reflecting the exponential growth in market demand and enhanced end user experiences. The corresponding expansion in the underlying infrastructure through hyperscale to edge data centres; network connectivity; and power availability, ESG, cybersecurity and optimisation continues to grow in new markets outside the Tier 1 environments of North America and Western Europe. AIC is focused on these more challenging environments – providing access to investment for local expert management teams and supporting those teams through direct board involvement to achieve high value transactions on performance aligned terms for the operating teams. AIC is also working with significant private investors seeking off-market prospects in response to customer demand where AIC has evaluated and recommended projects ready to receive capital for rapid, risk optimised deployment.Both new funders and new project platforms are being engaged by AIC’s well-known founders and Managing Partners Oliver Jones and Jonathan Berney. Projects in markets in Central and South America, the Middle East, South East Asia and Eastern Europe are being progressed.Jones and Berney are the Co Founders of China-focused Chayora Holdings, which they built through nine funding rounds into a unique infrastructure platform with a range of data centre, telecoms and cloud services licences in the PRC. Both stepped back from full time executive roles with Chayora in Q2 2023 and continue to advise and support Chayora exclusively in China

Jonathan is a Senior Board Advisor to Chayora, supporting the Board and Executives to grow and expand the platform in China. He is based in Hong Kong.He co-founded Chayora as an Investor, Developer and Operator of Data Centre Campuses in China. Along with fellow Co-Founder Oliver Jones, he led the business from being a business plan through multiple rounds of funding culminating in closing a multi hundred million series D funding round with EdgeConneX backed by EQT, the Swedish Private Equity Company. This added to Chayora’s US$180m Series C round with the investment made by Actis Capital. As former Board Member and Chief Operating Officer, Jonathan led the creation of the Chayora Operating Model, creating a World Class Team in Chayora that has acquired and is developing two campuses in China with up to 270MW of Hyperscale IT capacity along with all of the necessary power, telecommunications and regulatory infrastructure necessary to deliver for increasingly demanding customers in China sourced both domestically and globally. He also led the securing of Chayora’s first customer in Tianjin and authored Chayora’s first ESG report and initiatives.With over 30 years of international business experience, in Technology, Digital Infrastructure, Finance and Property, Jonathan specialises in creating and leading high growth, ambitious, entrepreneurial businesses, raising capital, and creating teams that deliver in a range of geographic and industry environments.

Jonathan is the Chief Operating Officer and a Founder of Chayora, an international Data Centre Infrastructure investor, developer and operator with an exclusive focus on China, enabling international cloud, online technology and colocation companies to access the world's largest, highest growth digital economy by creating international standard, hyperscale data centre campuses. Chayora is developing large, fully licensed data centre campuses in key cities across China – with the first campus being in Tianjin, serving the greater Beijing, Hebei and Tianjin area with 300MW of power and up to 24500 racks in 9 separate facilities. Shanghai is being developed in parallel with a similar capacity. Each campus will have a range of options with a focus build to suit.All Chayora sites have fully provisioned power from grid and and weher available direct-feed renewable sources and are fibre connected to world-class standards – ready for data centre construction and immediate connection to the domestic internet. Chayora's key focus is providing assured and rapid access to market at an optimised total cost of operation where previously the option was not possible in this highly attractive but under-supplied market.Environmental sustainability and community stakeholder respect matters in all developments. Our commitment is to uphold best practice ... and more – on all our sites. Chayora, backed by Standard Chartered Principal-Finance, has a Hong Kong headquarters with an exceptional, world-leading team of professionals with over 150 years of combined data centre infrastructure development experience. We have been involved in more than 100 data centre developments with a capital value in excess of $3.6 billion with many of the world's largest financial, technology and industrial corporations and governments around the world. Chayora has highly regarded international supply chain partners in the property, technology and service sectors.

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