By Christopher Calnan
Data center operator Codero Hosting is expanding with an Austin office, nine months after enlisting a local tech executive as its CEO.President and CEO Emil Sayegh is based in the Austin office, at 101 Westlake Drive, which includes product development, marketing, customer support and sales workers, company officials said.Lenexa, Kansas-based Codero, which was founded in 2009, is operated by APH Inc. It employs 50 workers. The company operates data centers in Chicago, Virginia and Phoenix.In February, Codero enlisted Sayegh — who was previously the Austin-based vice president of cloud services for California-based Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) — to grow Codero’s Austin office to 12 employees.Before HP, he was vice president and general manager of San Antonio-basedRackspace Hosting Inc.’s (NYSE: RAX) cloud computing division.