Susanna Kass
Co-Founder, Chief Circular Economy Sustainability Officer, A member of Climate 50

Susanna Kass has over 32 years of clean energy strategy and global data center operations experience. Her passion is to lead the Carbon Neutral Data Center pact to achieve their global goals to tackle Climate Change. In her BOD role at InfraPrime℠, her aim is to accelerate the transition of clean energy infrastructure for the Data Center and ICT sector in this decade at Gigawatts scale. Her contribution at InfraPrime includes the recent European Union Eco Energy award. Susanna Kass ranks 4th in the Top 10 ​Women in Data Center by Data Centre Magazine. Inc Magazine recognized her as Top 10 Most Inspiring Leaders to follow in 2023 because of her impactful results in championing Climate Action for the global Data Center industry. Susanna is one of Top 10 ​data center influencers to follow on LinkedIn, a member of Climate 50 for five consecutive years, an Energy Fellow and a board member to the Stanford University Graduate Management Board (GMB) Women’s Circle leading Impact, Analysis and Reporting, and the Board Chair for Broadgroup Talent in Tech Initiative.

Susanna was awarded the top 50 Women in San Francisco, Outstanding Mothers in 2022 by Women Most Admired. Kass is a Member of 2021 Power100 and a member of Climate 50, top most influential Climate Change leaders to reduce carbon footprint, a recognition based on the global results of her Energy projects in the Energy and Data Center sectors and the carrier industry. Kass is the Data Center Advisor on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  

At InfraPrime and in her career, she led over 3.8 Gigawatts of renewable energy projects and data center contracts with her clients included Google, Meta-Facebook, Microsoft, Equinix, Apple, Walmart. Kass was COO at eBay International, General Manager of HP APAC Data Center Operation, VP Global Data Center Operations at Sun Microsystems, EVP, Sustainability & Business Operations at Baselayer, a modular data center company with clients included Goldman Sachs, Google, Akamai, John Hopkins University, and numerous Electric Utility. Kass is a STEM mentor of over 300+ youths, an Energy Fellow at Stanford University. Kass is an academia researcher in Sustainability Design and Circular Economy, a guest lecturer at Cornell University, DTU,  National University of Singapore (NUS), UC Berkeley, UCLA, lecturer at Next Gen Cloud Infrastructure at SDSU. Kass serves as an advisor to her clients for Net Zero Data Center Designs. She is an inventor, author of publications on Sustainability Data Center Design, Circular Economy of Data Center LifeCycle Management, Clean Energy Responsible Generation and Consumption.