Congratulations to our 2021 category winner: Aidin Aghamiri, CEO of ITRenew

Sustainability has moved the industry away from the belief that all that mattered was efficiency inside the four walls of the data center towards an awareness of the many ways carbon is generated throughout the life of the data center. Sustainability has also drawn the industry's focus to its responsibility in terms of resources, water and materials used in construction and equipment - as well as its social and ethical responsibilities.

This year’s winner personifies not only the entrepreneurial approach to doing business but also the strong sense of social responsibility and environmental stewardship that we need to see more of. A pioneer of circularity even when it wasn’t cool, he’s built a global business out of it. His strategy can be summed up in his personal motto “refuse to settle for a world that pits economic success against social good,” which has become the company’s mission statement.

For more than two decades his company, ITRenew, has been maximizing the lifetime value of data center technology through innovative circular economic models and a comprehensive portfolio of decommissioning and data security services, edge and component products, and rack-scale compute and storage solutions.