Reporting to Alceon’s Head of Funds Management, Grant Atchison, these appointments reflect Alceon’s sustained growth and its continued investment in strengthening relationships with investors and partners. 

With a strong track-record in supporting and leading capital-raising initiatives, Mr McCluskey will lead Alceon’s domestic distribution team across the firm’s network of financial advisers, family offices, asset consultants, researchers, platforms and high-net-worth investors across Australia. Mr McCluskey previously held senior roles at Pantheon and MA Financial, bringing over a decade’s experience in capital raising and distribution. 

Mr Khan has been with Alceon’s distribution team for over five years and brings a comprehensive understanding of the firm’s investment offering. In his new role, he will lead Alceon’s institutional and international investor relationships, creating a key point of contact for all institutional clients, investors and partners across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. 

Commenting on the appointments, Alceon’s Chief Executive, David Gribble said: “We are thrilled to welcome Aidan to the expanded team and pleased with the opportunity it provides to elevate Omar’s leadership of our institutional and offshore relationships. Both Omar and Aidan bring impressive commercial acumen and an innate ability to establish and build trusted relationships. 

“Demand for high-quality private market opportunities continues to grow both domestically and overseas. With dedicated senior leaders, Alceon will be well-positioned to offer our partners and investors more tailored solutions and a streamlined pathway to investment opportunities or capital,” said Mr Gribble.

The appointments follow the additions earlier this year of Michael Dowsett as Associate Director in its Wholesale Capital division, alongside Guy Silbert in Melbourne, as the firm continues to build its investor-facing team.

Established in 2010, Alceon is a respected, trusted capital partner with a 15-year track record of strategic investment success and more than $5 billion under management across various asset classes. It is led by a high-calibre team of more than 120 investment professionals with a wealth of experience across real estate, private equity, credit and special situations.

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Leading Australian multi-strategy alternative investment manager Alceon has announced a strategic investment into INSITE DC, a rapidly growing Australian data centre developer and operator.

Alceon’s investment provides INSITE DC with capital to significantly accelerate the experienced data centre developer and operator’s development pipeline, expanding its land bank, and supporting the delivery of energy-efficient, high-availability data centres in target locations across Melbourne and Sydney.

The partnership will harness a differentiated advantage in developing and operating world class data centres across the Australasia region incorporating high-density power configurations, advanced cooling technologies, and resilient connectivity solutions. INSITE DC maintains a strong focus on sustainability and alignment with evolving environmental standards across the region.

Alceon’s data centre strategy is focused on two complementary value-creation pathways:

• Powered Land Sales: Identifying, zoning, and establishing powered-land sites to either feed the INSITE DC pipeline or sell to third-party data centre developers and operators, providing earlier, de-risked capital returns and portfolio diversification.
• Develop and Operate: Undertaking the full development and operation of data centres by INSITE DC for major hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise tenants. This pathway creates an ongoing development pipeline and growing platform value of INSITE DC, and is the strategy underpinning the strategy’s seed asset.

This dual-track approach gives Alceon and its investors primary exposure to data centre development and the growth of a major operating platform, while delivering selective near-term value realisation through powered land sales. Alceon anticipates this to be a scalable strategy as additional opportunities emerge and expects to raise a series of institutional capital vehicles to fund individual developments as tenant commitments are secured.

Alceon will leverage its deep expertise in land development and capital sourcing, together with power network experts from its affiliate company, Formus Property, a specialist property development, power and energy advisory firm, to deliver critical capability in identifying and securing powered land. Formus brings in-house power specialists with direct experience working alongside network authorities, deep knowledge of the grid connection process, and a broad network across data centre developers, hyperscalers, and operators.

David Gribble, Chief Executive Officer, Alceon said: “Digital infrastructure is one of the highest-conviction investment thematics globally, underpinned by structural demand for data, cloud services, and AI compute. INSITE DC represents a compelling opportunity to partner with an experienced and deeply credentialed platform, focused on delivering critical infrastructure in key Asia Pacific markets. Together with Formus, we have a differentiated ability to access strategic landholdings and unlock value through secured power, the defining constraint in this market. We are pleased to support Nauman, Anik, and the team in executing INSITE DC’s growth strategy across Australia and the broader region.”

INSITE DC founders Nauman Akhtar and Anik Akhter are highly experienced industry specialists with decades of experience developing and delivering hyperscale data centres across Australia. INSITE DC’s pipeline includes multiple campus-style developments in Melbourne and Sydney. Discussions are underway with future customers, including major hyperscale, cloud, Neo Cloud, and AI workload tenants seeking leading-edge compute solutions.

Nauman Akhtar and Anik Akhter, Co-Founders, INSITE DC said: “We are excited to partner with Alceon as we scale our platform to meet the next wave of demand driven by artificial intelligence and cloud technologies. Our focus is on delivering flexible, scalable, and energy-efficient data centre campuses that serve both hyperscale and enterprise customers at the highest standard. With Alceon’s backing, we are well positioned to accelerate our developments in Melbourne and Sydney and expand our presence across the JAPAC region.”

The DC Catalyst Fund represents the beginning of what Alceon expects to be a significant and growing platform in one of the most compelling infrastructure sectors of this decade. With a seed asset already underway, an active development pipeline across Melbourne and Sydney, and deep relationships across the hyperscale and enterprise tenant landscape, the partnership is immediately operational.

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