Dany Bouchedid , CEO of COLOTRAQ , on his vision to provide colocation , managed hosting , cloud , network and data center services globally

G reat businesses often spring from very small seeds : the seed that grew into COLOTRAQ was a lecture , one of a series , from an early . com entrepreneur to a final year ‘ ecommerce ’ class at NYU ’ s Stern School of Business in 1999 . The internet was largely unexplored territory to the students of management including Dany Bouchedid , who approached the entrepreneur at the end of his talk , expressing his interest and asking him for a tip . After a moment ’ s thought , Jeff Bezos ( for it was he ) answered : “ Infrastructure .” The class hadn ’ t yet tackled this subject but Bouchedid was sufficiently interested to ask his professor for a reading list . “ I never looked back ,” he says . After thoroughly acquainting himself with the data center infrastructure that supports the expanding internet , he founded COLOTRAQ as a full-service consultancy to help companies and institutions source data center colocation .