Jabez Tan

Head of Research |  Structure Research

Jabez Tan is the Head of Research at Structure Research, an independent research and consulting firm devoted to the cloud and data centre infrastructure services markets with a specialization in the hyperscale value chain.

Mr. Tan is based in Los Angeles, California, and his coverage focuses on the data centre infrastructure market – primarily retail and hyperscale colocation providers but also modular data centre, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure companies. Mr. Tan leads coverage of the Asia-Pacific region and building of Structure Research’s proprietary market share data.

Prior to joining Structure Research, Mr. Tan was a Research Analyst for the quantitative services team at Tier1 Research and later parent company 451 Research. In this role, he assisted in the development and maintenance of the company’s market sizing and other quantitative services deliverables with an emphasis on the Internet infrastructure sectors, including colocation, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure. Other areas of coverage included data centre technology vendors and modular data centres.

Mr. Tan is a regular speaker at industry events and has been quoted in publications such as The Straights Times Singapore, The Business Times Singapore, South China Morning Post, Channel News Asia, Data Economy, Data Center Knowledge, Data Centre Dynamics, The Deal, Nikkei Asian Review and Singapore Business Review.

Mr. Tan holds a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also a platoon sergeant in the Singapore Armed Forces and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.