# Leadership > The leadership team of Qore Infrastructure Partners: Oliver Spring (Founder and CEO), Christof Hämmerli (Co-Founder and CIO), Scott Newcombe (SVP Development and COO), Joe McCaffrey (Chief Development Officer) and Sebastian Murphy (Director of Development and Projects). URL: https://www.qoreinfra.com/platform/leadership/ Publisher: Qore Infrastructure Partners (https://www.qoreinfra.com) --- Platform An international team across investment, development and delivery, based in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. [### Oliver Spring Founder and Chief Executive Officer](https://www.qoreinfra.com/platform/leadership/#oliver-spring)[### Christof Hämmerli Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer](https://www.qoreinfra.com/platform/leadership/#christof-haemmerli)[### Scott Newcombe SVP Development and Chief Operating Officer](https://www.qoreinfra.com/platform/leadership/#scott-newcombe)[### Joe McCaffrey Chief Development Officer](https://www.qoreinfra.com/platform/leadership/#joe-mccaffrey)[### Sebastian Murphy Director of Development and Projects](https://www.qoreinfra.com/platform/leadership/#sebastian-murphy) ## Oliver Spring Founder and Chief Executive Officer Oliver Spring is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Qore Infrastructure Partners. He has more than twenty years of experience across digital infrastructure, structured finance and real estate development in the DACH region, the United States and the Middle East, and has originated and structured transactions exceeding €1.2 billion. At Qore he sets the strategic direction of the platform and leads land and power origination, capital structuring, customer pre-leasing and long-term partnerships. He works directly with hyperscale and frontier AI customers, and with governments, ministries and economic delegations across Europe, the Gulf and the United States on sovereign AI capacity. Oliver works across Zug, London and San Francisco, and speaks regularly on Europe's AI infrastructure, including at events around the World Economic Forum in Davos and at the Swiss Stock Exchange. * Land and power origination * Sovereign AI * Customer partnerships * Capital structuring * Platform strategy ## Christof Hämmerli Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer Christof Hämmerli is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Qore Infrastructure Partners, responsible for investment strategy, acquisitions, underwriting and asset management. He brings 25 years of experience in data centre investment, corporate development and real estate capital markets, with more than $9 billion of acquisition and asset management value across Europe and the United States. He has built data centre platforms from inception to institutional scale three times. At Carter Validus he grew the portfolio from zero to $4 billion across 142 assets. At Landmark Dividend he founded and led the data centre division, scaling it to $2 billion across 32 assets. At Cloud Capital he established the European business alongside a US core portfolio, growing to more than $3 billion in under three years. Across these platforms he directed acquisitions, lease negotiations and investment committee processes for assets representing 875 MW of commissioned capacity. Earlier, Christof spent four years at Equinix in corporate development and risk, working on the financial due diligence of European acquisitions including Interxion, with combined deal values above $1.7 billion. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. * Acquisitions and underwriting * Capital markets * Asset management * Platform build-out ## Scott Newcombe SVP Development and Chief Operating Officer Scott Newcombe leads development and operations at Qore Infrastructure Partners. He has more than twenty years of end-to-end delivery experience in Europe's most complex hyperscale and digital infrastructure environments, from land acquisition and power procurement through technical planning, construction oversight, commissioning and operational rollout. Scott has overseen development pipelines exceeding €3 billion and closed more than $500 million of infrastructure transactions. His career spans senior roles at major operators, global infrastructure advisories and high-growth platforms, and he has built and led multi-disciplinary delivery teams across 15 European countries. At Qore he is responsible for operational execution and development delivery, ensuring that power-secured facilities and modular developments transition into high-availability operational assets for hyperscale and neocloud customers. * Hyperscale delivery * Lease and build-to-suit structuring * Power procurement * Cross-border execution ## Joe McCaffrey Chief Development Officer Joe McCaffrey (BSc, MSc, MRICS, MSCSI) is Chief Development Officer of Qore Infrastructure Partners. A Chartered Project Manager, he has 25 years of experience managing major mechanical and electrical programmes, including technically demanding data centre, disaster recovery and financial institution facilities in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, with programme values above $1 billion. Joe has led data centre and AI delivery programmes for clients including CoreWeave, Digital Realty, Google, Microsoft and AWS, introducing rigorous project controls and ISO-accredited delivery methods: ISO 9001:2015 quality management, ISO 14001:2015 environmental management and ISO 45001:2018 occupational health and safety. At Qore he directs programme management, contractor oversight and commissioning across the development pipeline. * Programme management * MEP and M&E delivery * Contractor oversight * Hyperscale commissioning ## Sebastian Murphy Director of Development and Projects Sebastian Murphy is Director of Development and Projects at Qore Infrastructure Partners. He has more than 14 years of delivery experience on some of Europe's most complex hyperscale data centre programmes, across site acquisition, permitting, design coordination, construction, commissioning and campus handover. He has led technical oversight of more than 1 GW of hyperscale data centre construction in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, covering civil and structural works, MEP interfaces, fibre and connectivity, and complex temporary works on greenfield and brownfield sites. Having led technical and pre-construction departments at the same time, he closes the gap between design intent and what gets built. He has also directed infrastructure tender programmes worth more than €500 million. At Qore he leads the technical advancement of the European pipeline, from power-secured land through modular construction to live campus handover. He holds a BEng in Civil Engineering from the University of Aberdeen and is a Certified Data Centre Design Professional. * Pre-construction * Modular construction * Design coordination * Temporary works Track record figures refer to the experience of individual team members, including in prior roles. --- About the publisher: Qore Infrastructure Partners (QIP) is Europe's power-ready hyperscale and AI data centre platform, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland: Building Europe's Sovereign AI Infrastructure. Website: https://www.qoreinfra.com. Not affiliated with Gcore, QORE Switzerland AG, QORE Global, QORE Finance or Qore (core banking). Nothing on this site is an offer of securities or investment advice.