REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, June 11, 2025 – atNorth has revealed three new director appointments that support the company’s growth and strengthens the organizational structure of the business for efficiency and future effectiveness.
Bjarki Björnsson – Director of Funding and Treasury
Bjarki is responsible for maintaining atNorth’s financial stability. With 20 years of treasury experience from positions at food processing equipment company, Marel, and Icelandic financing company, SP-Fjármögnun , Bjarki will work with executive leadership, financial institutions, and cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable financial solutions and drive operational excellence.
Based at atNorth’s data center in Iceland, Bjarki will report to CFO & deputy CEO, Eva Sóley Guðbjörnsdóttir.
Axel Gunnlaugsson – Director of IT
Axel has 30 years of experience in technology, including founding the cloud-based repair and service management platform Codilac, and serving as CTO at Icelandia and CIO at 365 Media. He will oversee atNorth’s IT operations, strategy, and infrastructure management. His role focuses on evolving services to align with customer and operational requirements while maintaining the availability, scalability, and performance of the company’s IT and cybersecurity systems.
Based at atNorth’s site in Iceland, Axel will report to chief sustainability and compliance officer, Janne Sigurdsson.
Jon Mckey – Nordic Operations Engineering Director
Jon joined atNorth in 2024 as Nordic technical manager and has recently been promoted to Nordic operations engineering director. Drawing on his data center engineering experience from Equinix, he will lead the planning and execution of infrastructure projects while ensuring compliance with company standards and industry best practices.
Based at atNorth’s campus in Sweden, Jon will report to chief operations officer, Erling Guðmundsson.
As atNorth expands, strengthening its leadership is essential to meet objectives in sustainability and technical quality. This requires effective business management, strong governance, and a well-defined strategy focused on long-term success. “We are proud of our committed workforce that are the driving force behind our ongoing growth”, says Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, CEO atNorth. “We welcome these most recent hires as we continue to evolve and innovate to meet the digital infrastructure needs of enterprise businesses in an environmentally responsible way.”
Source: atNorth
About atNorth
atNorth is a Nordic data center services company that offers sustainable, cost-effective, scalable colocation and high-performance computing services trusted by industry-leading organizations. The business acquired the leading high-performance computing (HPC) provider, Gompute, in 2023, enabling a compelling full stack offering tailored to AI and other critical high-performance workloads. With sustainability at its core, atNorth’s data centers run on renewable energy and support circular economy principles. All atNorth sites use innovative design, power efficiency, and smart operations to provide long-term infrastructure and flexible colocation deployments. The custom solutions help businesses calculate, simulate, train, and visualize data workloads in an efficient, cost-optimized way. atNorth is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, and operates seven data centers in strategic locations across the Nordics, with additional sites set to open in Helsinki, Finland, in Q1 2025, and Ballerup, Denmark, in Q2 2025. Its tenth site is under construction in Kouvola, Finland, and its eleventh site will be in Ølgod, Denmark. The business has also secured land for a future mega site in the Sollefteå Municipality in Sweden.