COLOTRAQ’s Dany Bouchedid

Written by Buffy Naylor
February 15, 2022

Dany Bouchedid
Founder & CEO
COLOTRAQ

“I never really saw myself as an influencer in the channel per se. When I started my nonprofit work and social activism nearly 10 years ago it wasn’t very ‘fashionable.’ I actually received some ridicule when I started a CSR page for the COLOTRAQ website. So if it’s because of my work in that realm that I was chosen, I’m just happy that it could have inspired others to step up and do better for our industry, our community and the world as a whole.”

Dany Bouchedid is more than a bit of a disruptor. In 1999, he founded COLOTRAQ, the industry’s first colocation broker. Today he is CEO of the company which has a global network of more than 400 service providers in 1,200 markets across 140 countries. Bouchedid is a familiar face in the channel, serving on a number of advisory boards (including the Channel Futures DE&I Advisory Board), speaking at industry events and contributing to industry publications.

He’s changing things up outside the channel, too. Born in war-torn Beirut, Bouchedid has witnessed the effects of hunger and homelessness and experienced the difficulties of being an immigrant. Frustrated in his attempts to find the best organizations with which to work, he founded The Bouchedid Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization whose goal is to fund the most immediate and worthwhile causes that are affecting the most underprivileged and neglected groups.

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Buffy Naylor

Buffy Naylor is managing editor of Channel Futures. Prior to joining Informa (then VIRGO) in 2008, she was an award-winning copywriter and editor, then senior manager of corporate communications for an international leisure travel corporation and, before that, in charge of creative development and copywriting for a boutique marketing and public relations agency.