A Financially Secure Partner

• An enduring partnership: Our financial strength and stability provide you the assurance that Digital Realty will be your data centre partner for your current data centre needs and those in the future.


• We complete what we start: Digital Realty’s robust financial structure enables us to avoid potential pitfalls to complete each every project we start.


• We have a long-term strategy: We view each of our properties as a long-term investment to ensure that the lease you commence with us concludes with us.


• A consistent price: Digital Realty provides you with a risk free data centre solution through our guaranteed program which ensures that the rates specified in your lease are the only rates you’ll pay.


• More access to capital for your data centre: Our investment credit ratings provide us access to paths for more capital.

Click on the links below to learn more about our investment grade ratings:

• Standard and Poor's
• Moody's
• Fitch Ratings

Our Data Centre Customers

A Common Green Strategy

Sustainability and corporate requirements make the need for a proven green strategy an essential requirement for your data centre provider. At Digital Realty, our data centres are built to meet LEED certification standards in the United States and Asia Pacific and the BREEAM standard in Europe. Our commitment to green product development aligns with your own corporate strategy to simplify your data centre decision.

Executive Bios

Michael F. Foust

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Foust has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) since its IPO in October 2004. He co-founded the predecessor private equity fund, GI Partners, in 2001 and served as its Managing Director. During his tenure at GI Partners, Mr. Foust directed the acquisition of technology-related properties and portfolio management. Mr. Foust was a Senior Vice President at CB Richard Ellis, where he managed regional asset services operations, and he was a Senior Director at CB Richard Ellis Investors. Prior to CBRE, Mr. Foust held senior portfolio management and investment positions at UBS Asset Management, Karsten Realty Advisors and Trammell Crow Company. He has over 25 years of experience in real estate portfolio management and investment. Prior to his real estate career, he participated in the origination of two related international telecom companies operating in New York and London. Mr. Foust received an AB degree, magna cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

A. William Stein

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Stein has served as CFO and CIO for Digital Realty since July 2004. With more than 30 years experience, his previous positions include Co-Head of VentureBank@PNC and Media and Communications Finance at The PNC Financial Services Group; President/COO and EVP/CFO of TriNet Corporate Realty Trust, now part of iStar Financial; and several senior financial and investment management positions at Westinghouse Electric, Westinghouse Financial Services, and Duquesne Light Company. Mr. Stein also serves on the Board of Directors of Wesdome Gold Mines, LTD (WDO:TSX), a gold mining company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Early in his career Mr. Stein practiced law for eight years specializing in both litigation and securities and finance. Mr. Stein received an AB degree in Classics from Princeton University, a JD degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MSIA degree with Distinction from Carnegie Mellon University.

Scott E. Peterson

Chief Acquisitions Officer

Scott E. Peterson is Digital Realty's chief acquisitions officer responsible for our acquisition activities. From 2002 until our initial public offering in October 2004, Mr. Peterson was a Managing Director of GI Partners where he was responsible for property acquisitions with an emphasis on technology-related properties. Mr. Peterson has more than 17 years of real estate experience and was most recently a Senior Vice President with GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment entity for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Previously, Mr. Peterson was active in investments, development and asset management with LaSalle Partners, a real estate services company, and Trammell Crow Company, a real estate developer. Mr. Peterson received a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

David J. Caron

Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management

David J. Caron, Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management since February, 2009, joined Digital Realty as Vice President of Portfolio Management at the completion of our initial public offering in October 2004. In this role, Mr. Caron was responsible for the performance of Digital’s eastern region. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Mr. Caron served for 12 years as Vice President of Asset Management at Bank of Boston, where he specialised in the management and disposition of a national portfolio of commercial office and retail properties. Previously, Mr. Caron spent 12 years at John Hancock, where in his last role he was the Vice President of Operations for John Hancock Investment Services. In that role he structured private and public real estate funds and oversaw SEC filings for the funds. Mr. Caron received a B.S. degree from Northeastern University.

Jim Smith

Chief Technology Officer

Jim Smith oversees data centre development, the company's efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management. Jim and the Digital Realty team have built and delivered multiple data centre projects in North America, Europe and APAC. This portfolio includes the industry's first LEED Gold certified data centre and the UK’s first BREEAM certified Excellent data centre. Jim has a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008.

Frederick S. Potter

Head of International Operations

Fred Potter is the head of Digital Realty’s International Operations. In that capacity, he is the senior Digital Realty Trust officer responsible for the management and operations of Digital Realty Trust’s international portfolio. Mr. Potter joined Digital Realty’s Finance team in 2006 at the Company’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco. He transferred to Digital Realty’s London office in 2008 where initially he led the Company’s international financing activities, arranging secured debt financing and overseeing European cash management and administration of International Operations. Prior to joining Digital Realty, Fred was the Director of Commercial Development of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA. In that capacity, Fred was responsible for negotiating commercialization and licensing agreements, business planning for new initiatives and representing EPRI on the boards of various affiliates. Fred has been a vice president of other corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange and an investment banker. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University in New York.

Ellen Jacobs

Senior Vice President of Corporate Services

Ellen Jacobs is Digital Realty’s Sr. Vice President of Corporate Services, responsible for our Human Resource and Enterprise Technology functions. Prior to joining Digital Realty, Ms. Jacobs served in various Vice President of Human Resource positions at Charles Schwab, Advanced Micro Devices, and Continental Grain Company. Ms. Jacobs spent 15 years as a grain trader with Continental Grain, Central Soya and Cargill, Inc. prior to entering the Human Resource field. Ms. Jacobs received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Colorado – Boulder and an MBA from Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Joshua A. Mills

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

Mr. Mills joined Digital Realty as General Counsel in April, 2005. Prior to joining Digital Realty, Mr. Mills was a corporate attorney with Latham & Watkins, LLP where his practice included mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and venture capital financing transactions as well as general company representation. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Mr. Mills served as Associate General Counsel for McAfee.com Corporation and as an associate with Shearman & Sterling, LLP. Mr. Mills received a B.A. degree from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Brent Behrman

Senior Vice President

Brent Behrman is now Senior Vice President for Digital Realty. He had served as Vice President of Global Sales since July 2009. He is responsible for directing and implementing the company’s sales strategy. Prior to this role, Mr. Behrman lead the Enterprise sales team at Digital Realty. He joined Digital Realty Trust as Director of Sales in January 2006. Mr. Behrman has more than 15 years of sales and technology experience. Prior to joining Digital Realty, he lead multiple sales organizations at Vettro, a software-as-a-service provider, and Entrust, a leading security software company. Previously, Mr. Behrman was active in sales, sales management and finance at Nortel Networks, a leading supplier of products and services that support the Internet and other public and private data, voice and multimedia communications networks. Mr. Behrman received a B.B.A. degree from Texas A&M University at College Station and an M.B.A degree from the University of North Texas.

Edward F. Sham

Senior Vice President and Controller

Edward F. Sham serves as Senior Vice President & Controller for Digital Realty; he joined the company in September 2005. With more than 20 years experience, his previous positions include Vice President & Controller of Catellus Development Corporation, now part of ProLogis ; Controller of Bay Apartment REIT, now Avalon Bay; and O’Connor Realty Advisors. In addition, Mr. Sham was a practicing CPA for Ernst & Young LLP in their real estate group for seven years. Mr. Sham received a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University and is a member of AICPA and California CPA society.

Kris Kumar

Regional Head, Asia Pacific

Kris Kumar comes to Digital Realty with 28 years of experience in the IT/data centre infrastructure, property and marine industries. Immediately prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kumar was the president and co-founder of a specialized consulting and project implementation business that conceptualized, business-planned and delivered facilities and move-in ready data centre projects for major corporate enterprises and international telecom and IT companies across the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Kumar also served as a Marine Engineer in the Indian, British and American Merchant Navy for 10 years. As a Chief Engineer he developed his extensive experience and expertise in critical engineering systems, planning and design engineering for uptime and reliability as well as maintenance systems, processes and procedures. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Marine Engineering (Distinction) and a Postgraduate degree in Facilities Management & Finance from Sydney University.