Data center engineering consultancy.

Abdelilah Sidqui is Co-founder and Managing Partner of UBIK, the data center engineering consultancy established in Dubai in 2019. He leads the firm’s advisory and engineering design work for clients across the Middle East and Africa. Under his leadership the firm has grown every year since its founding. He is also a Board Director of African Digital Infrastructure Investments (ADII), which invests in digital infrastructure across Africa.

He brings more than twenty years in critical infrastructure and technology programmes. Before UBIK he spent eleven years at EMC and then Dell Technologies in Dubai, where he ran data center, cloud migration and IT transformation programmes for government and enterprise clients across the Middle East and Africa and led the region’s advanced software and data protection practice.

He holds a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from ENSEM Casablanca, completed Executing Complex Programs at Stanford University School of Engineering, and is an MSP Practitioner. He works in Arabic, French and English.

Carlos Garcia Sevilla is a Principal of UBIK. An architect, he has worked on data centers for more than thirty years.

He co-founded UBIK and leads its work on power and cooling topology, prefabricated and modular facilities and the certification pathway from design to operation. His record spans carrier, colocation and enterprise facilities in Spain, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and India.

He is the founder of Arsmagna, a Madrid consultancy advising international investment funds and operators on the Spanish market, and a co-founder of Jevons Edge, an edge data center operator in Spain. A keynote speaker for DatacenterDynamics in Mumbai, Bangalore, Doha and Riyadh, he holds an architecture degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a master’s in project management from the Madrid Architecture Center.