10 Digital Realty data center leaders
Vice President Operations APAC, Vice President, Design Engineering & Construction - Americas and Senior Regional Director - Technical Operations, APAC are among the current titles held by these Digital Realty data center leaders. A reader can learn how data center leaders run their sites at Digital Realty from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Atsushi Nagasaki
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Design Engineering & Construction, Japan · Digital Realty
Atsushi Nagasaki has been Senior Director, Design Engineering & Construction, Japan at Digital Realty since March 2026, based in the Greater Tokyo Area, and has been Vice President, Design Engineering & Construction at MC Digital Realty since January 2025. Atsushi Nagasaki was Director, Design Engineering & Construction, Japan at Digital Realty from 2024 to 2026.
Charles Grosbier
LinkedInExperience: Director of Technical Operations Central Region · Digital Realty
Charles Grosbier has been Director of Technical Operations Central Region at Digital Realty since August 2011, based in the Greater Chicago Area. Charles Grosbier was Regional Technical Operations Manager at Digital Realty from 2010 to 2011 and Critical Facilities Manager Microsoft Chicago Datacenter at Lee Technologies from 2008 to 2010.
Chris Plass
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Design Engineering & Construction - Americas · Digital Realty
Chris Plass has been Vice President, Design Engineering & Construction - Americas at Digital Realty since January 2024, based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and the profile places the role in Dallas, Texas. Chris Plass was Vice President at HITT Contracting Inc. from 2006 to 2024.
Dominique Colas
LinkedInExperience: Directeur Opérations France · Digital Realty
Dominique Colas has been Directeur Opérations France at Digital Realty since August 2022, based in La Ciotat, France, and the profile places the role in Paris at director level in the operations department. Dominique Colas was Directeur opérations at Interxion from 2013 to 2022.
Harvey Chong
LinkedInExperience: Senior Regional Director - Technical Operations, APAC · Digital Realty
Harvey Chong has been Senior Regional Director - Technical Operations, APAC at Digital Realty since January 2011, based in Singapore. Harvey Chong was Senior Director, Regional Data Center Operations -Asia Pac at Digital Realty from 2019 to 2020 and Regional Director - Data Centre Operations, APAC there from 2014 to 2019.
Ian Ashton
LinkedInExperience: VP, Design Engineering & Construction APAC · Digital Realty
Ian Ashton has been VP, Design Engineering & Construction APAC at Digital Realty since April 2024, based in Australia, and the profile places the role in Sydney. Ian Ashton was APJC Head of DC Construction at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2022 to 2024 and Lead Construction Manager at Meta from 2019 to 2022.
Jon Curry
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Operations APAC · Digital Realty
Jon Curry has been Vice President Operations APAC at Digital Realty since December 2019, based in Singapore. Jon Curry was General Manager - Managed Data Centres at Telstra from 2007 to 2019 and Head of Service Management at Spark New Zealand from 2003 to 2006.
Ryan Young
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Americas Operations · Digital Realty
Ryan Young has been Vice President, Americas Operations at Digital Realty since December 2023, based in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area. Ryan Young was Senior Director, Data Center Operations at Digital Realty in 2023, Director, Data Center Operations there from 2018 to 2023 and Regional Manager, Data Center Operations there from 2016 to 2018.
Søren Guul
LinkedInExperience: Subregional Director of Operations · Digital Realty
Søren Guul has been Subregional Director of Operations at Digital Realty since April 2026, based in the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area, and has held the role of Director Operations, Nordic there since June 2023. Søren Guul has also held the role of Manager Datacenter at Digital Realty since June 2021 and was Service Manager at Getinge from 2014 to 2021.
Vito Conenna
LinkedInExperience: VP of Global Design Engineering · Digital Realty
Vito Conenna has been VP of Global Design Engineering at Digital Realty since February 2003, based in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The profile describes Vito Conenna as an experienced Vice President of Engineering skilled in data center designs, with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry.
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Match the person's scope, whether regional operations, technical operations or design and construction of new capacity, to the decision in front of you. Weigh whether you need someone who runs live sites or someone who plans and builds new ones, since each sees different problems.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you focus on first when you took on your data center role at Digital Realty?
- 02How do you balance uptime against maintenance and expansion work on the sites you oversee?
- 03What has your own work taught you about handing a newly built site over to the people who will run it?
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