Regional Leadership

Senior Vice President of Americas Sales Arquelle Shaw is a leader in the Global Sales organization and responsible for strategy and execution, including direct sales and an ecosystem of go-to-market channel partners in the region. She is passionate about building solution-driven sales organizations focused on helping customers achieve critical business objectives.

During her tenure at Equinix, Arquelle has grown her organization and implemented transformational programs fueling game-changing growth as the company expanded its footprint in the United States, Latin America and Canada. Arquelle is a champion for diversity, equity and social causes, and she proudly leads the Equinix Women Leaders Network (EWLN) to amplify the voice and visibility of Equinix women around the world.

Arquelle joined Equinix in 2019 following sales leadership roles at Accenture, American Express and AT&T. She also volunteers as a “Woman of Impact” for the nonprofit organization Girls Inc., where she supports creating opportunities for girls in underserved communities through funding and mentoring.

Eduardo began his career with Equinix Brazil in 2011, with the acquisition of ALOG, where he’d been Head of Sales since 2005. In 2013, Eduardo was promoted to Managing Director Brazil, responsible for the management, strategy, and growth plan of Equinix in the country, leading several expansions across Brazil, including the first xScale data center in the Americas.

In 2022, he became Managing Director for LATAM, responsible for market development in Latin America, and driving Equinix's expansion plans into current and new markets across the region.

Eduardo graduated in Business Administration at the Catholic University of Campinas and has been active in the IT/Telecommunications market since 1999. He has honed his business expertise on courses at Kellogg School of Management, Columbia Business School and Haas School of Business.

Victor is the Managing Director of Brazil, responsible for leading the country’s growth and development plans. Victor partners with in-country and global teams to build strategies that generate new business and accelerate revenue growth, including driving cross-border collaboration, exploring new market segments, increasing platform-based selling, and anticipating industry trends.

Prior to his current position, Victor led some of the most complex enterprise-wide processes across Equinix Brazil’s product, marketing, IT, and HR organizations. As Senior Director of Corporate Development for almost seven years, he was instrumental in identifying new market opportunities – expanding the Equinix Platform from one country to five, and two markets to seven – while ensuring teams were supported to execute M&As, integrations, new services, and expansions. Victor is passionate about engaging and inspiring people, as well as continuously expanding his knowledge. He has invested time in some of top educational institutions in the world including INSEAD, Berkeley, Wharton, LSE, MIT, IESE, HBS, Ross, Columbia, Booth, Stanford, Singularity and CESAR School.

Francisco is the Managing Director of Chile, responsible for developing and driving Equinix’s growth plans in existing and new Chilean markets, while also representing Chile in global initiatives. Prior to Equinix, Francisco held a variety of leadership positions at Entel, from Head of Marketing & Strategy, to CEO of Americatel Peru, and VP of Planning and Projects. During his 11 years at Entel he was an inspirational leader to hundreds of employees, and led teams that implemented the company’s digital services strategy including IoT, Big Data, and Cloud offerings, as well as several successful transactions and integrations. Francisco has deep expertise in M&A, strategic planning, financial valuations, and investment management. He has an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management in Business Strategy and Operations.

Marc Mondésir is the Managing Director of Canada, responsible for leading and driving the growth of Equinix Canada. This includes leading the cohesive cross-Canada team to ensure alignment with global strategy, drive growth, develop interconnection hubs and build deeper and broader digital ecosystems from coast-to-coast. Before joining Equinix Marc held senior leadership roles most recently at Microsoft Canada as Vice President Consulting Services, where he led in redefining Microsoft’s Consulting Go-to-Market (GTM) transformation and organizational design. Prior to that, he spent 14 years in progressive leadership roles at Dell, culminating his time there as Country Leader and General Manager (GM) for Dell Canada’s Professional Services Group. 

Marc is driven by a passion for cultivating diverse, collaborative teams and empowering their unique potential. A dedicated advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, he is an active mentor within the Black Professionals in Tech Network and currently serves as a Board Advisor for property management technology start-up, Ananest’s Executive Leadership Team, consulting on Growth, Leadership & Culture. Marc studied communications at York and Ottawa University and holds an MBA from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.   

Amet joined Equinix in 2020 as Managing Director for Mexico. Amet has been instrumental in building the Mexico business, a key leader and a 23-year veteran of Alestra/Axtel. Amet played a crucial role in our acquisition and integration strategy and his understanding of Mexico’s market dynamics, combined with his relationships with customers, carriers, suppliers, partners and government institutions, is a tremendous asset to our success.

Before joining Equinix, Amet held several roles with Alestra/Axtel, working in both customer care/service and operations/engineering. Earlier in his career, Amet worked for Alestra in several positions, including as a Customer Service and Network Operations Manager. He rounded out his time there as a Network Engineering and Operations Director.

Amet holds a BS Telecommunications Engineer from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, a master’s degree in Administration and Finance from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, and an Executive MBA at IPADE Business School. He has also extended his education through leadership courses at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Haas School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Scott has over 25 years’ experience working in Government and broader Regulated Industry markets, supporting IT and Program leadership to deliver successful mission outcomes.  As Managing Director for U.S. Public Sector at Equinix, Scott is responsible for growth and strategy execution to scale the Public Sector business, where he also leads the Customer Operations, Business Operations, and Compliance and Contacting teams, with overall P&L responsibility. 

In his prior role as Chief Operating Officer for Regulated Industries at SAP, Scott led Go-to-Market (GTM) through complex cloud transformation within Public Sector, Aerospace and Defense, Healthcare and Utilities industries.  Before joining SAP, he spent 16 years in Microsoft’s Federal division, culminating his time there as General Manager for the Civilian government business, where he led Microsoft's cloud transformation in the Federal market.  

Scott is an active sponsor and champion for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts, and is involved in supporting regulated industry community groups, including the Brooks Crossing Innovation Lab and Fisher House. Scott has a degree in Finance from Old Dominion University where he was a member of the varsity wrestling team, and now serves as board member on the Strome School of Business Executive Advisory Committee.  He is an avid road cyclist and golfer, and lives in Oak Hill, Virginia with his wife and three daughters.