Verghese Jacob

Managing Director, FMevolution

Verghese began his career in the Australian telecommunications industry where he advanced through the ranks of senior professional and management positions. He worked in corporate safety and environment, business unit risk management, carrier facilities access and building services design and construction delivery. He was accountable for delivering the critical building infrastructure core to some of the largest network rollouts seen in Australia’s Telco industry.

Since establishing FMevolution in 2007, Verghese has continued to design and manage the delivery of world-leading data centres for clients such as Woolworths, Pacnet (now Telstra), DXC.technology, Metronode and AirTrunk. He specialises in modular bespoke designs that maximise prefabrication off-site to expedite on-site construction; and working only on projects that push the boundaries of energy, water and capital efficiency.

Some of FMevolution’s achievements are delivering the most data centres of any independent project manager or client representative in Asia-Pacific; delivering Australia’s first Uptime Institute Certified Constructed Facility; delivering Australia’s first hyper-scale data centre, delivering two data centres that won Master Builders Awards; and CIOoutlook Magazine (July 2016) listed FMevolution among the “25 Most Promising Project Management Solutions Providers” in APAC.