The magic of connectivity

IT has been quite a journey for Epsilon Telecommunications, which provides interconnection services through dedicated networks. Starting out from a basement of a Victorian building in London's Mayfair district that once stored coal, it has in less than a decade moved across the world, relocating to hip new digs at the massive New Tech Park in Singapore's Lorong Chuan.

During the same period, Epsilon graduated from the low-tech business of providing connectivity to companies selling calling cards, to now offering end-to-end highly secure interconnect facilities to large organisations. The privately-owned company, which has the Kuok Group as a major shareholder, was set up in London in 2003.

Jerzy Szlosarek, Epsilon's CEO and co-founder, recalls the company's origins. A bunch of telecom professionals (including Mr Szlosarek), working mostly for Dynegy Communications Europe, decided that they could devise a new and agile business model that would shake up the telco industry, which was then in a state of flux with several companies going bankrupt. Andreas Hipp, who was senior VP for sales and marketing at Dynegy and who became the first Epsilon CEO, was the nominal leader of the team.