Farnborough-based QiO Technologies has appointed Christos Tsotskas as chief technology officer.
The company said the appointment strengthens its leadership as it develops optimisation technology for data centres and energy-intensive industries.
Tsotskas brings more than 20 years’ experience across artificial intelligence, optimisation and large-scale software.
His work spans defence, aerospace, transport, telecommunications, healthcare and logistics, including the deployment of systems in regulated and safety-critical environments.
He has also led 24/7 monitoring across more than 4,000 sites and 140,000 sensors in rail, energy, tunnels and bridges.
At QiO, Tsotskas will lead technology strategy and delivery across the company’s data centre product and industrial optimisation portfolio.
He will oversee engineering, data science and optimisation teams, and guide the architecture, product roadmap and enterprise requirements needed to scale deployments.
In a post on its LinkedIn page, QiO said Tsotskas will lead its technology strategy and development across data centres and energy-intensive manufacturing.
For data centre operators, QiO’s product is being developed to help identify and apply server power optimisations while maintaining workload performance, quality of service and availability.
The company said its approach is designed to keep optimisation within vendor-rated, warranty-safe operating limits, with changes reversible and savings subject to measurement and verification.
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Tsotskas said: “The challenge that attracted me to QiO is carrying optimisation all the way from analysis to a measured operational outcome. I’m looking forward to scaling the data centre and manufacturing products while keeping performance, safety and customer control at the centre of every deployment.”
His priorities include expanding the optimisation capabilities of QiO’s products, strengthening the measurement, security and governance foundations required by enterprise and colocation customers, and developing reusable technology and integration patterns for industrial sites.
Gary Bourton, CEO at QiO Technologies, said: “Christos combines deep expertise in AI and optimisation with a proven understanding of what it takes to put complex technology into operation at scale. His appointment will help us strengthen our products and deliver practical, measurable value for customers facing growing pressure on energy and compute capacity.”
Tsotskas holds a PhD focused on multi-objective optimisation, applying it to aircraft techno-economic and environmental trade-offs using high-performance computing.
Across his career, he has worked on AI-driven routing and scheduling, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, industrial IoT and cloud data platforms.