DALLAS, Feb. 24,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR),
the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data
center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has appointed
Paula Cogan as Managing Director,
Head of EMEA, effective March 17,
2025. Paula will lead Digital Realty's EMEA team,
driving continued growth of the region's data center platform and
delivering the value of PlatformDIGITAL™, the world's
largest meeting place for companies, technologies, and data,
throughout EMEA.
Cogan brings over 20 years of European telecommunications
and infrastructure experience to Digital Realty. Most
recently, she served as Chief Executive Officer of euNetworks, a
European bandwidth infrastructure company. Before that, Cogan
served in executive roles at Colt Technology Services and Verizon,
after beginning her career at BT. Cogan will be based in
London and succeeds Michel van den Assem, who is retiring after more
than 20 years with Digital Realty. He will remain with Digital
Realty until the end of May to ensure a smooth transition.
"Paula is a seasoned telco and digital infrastructure leader
with extensive expertise in sales, operations, and strategic
transformation. She brings a strong track record of leading teams
and engaging with customers. I am delighted to have her lead
our growing EMEA region," said Digital Realty President &
Chief Executive Officer, Andy Power. "I also want to thank
Michel for his steady leadership of our EMEA team and his many
contributions to Digital Realty over the years."
"I'm delighted to join Digital Realty's leadership team and lead
the EMEA region during such a dynamic time in the data center
industry," added Cogan. "With over 120 operating data centers
across 26 metros in this multi-continental region, robust and
expanding connectivity, and a client roster spanning the world's
largest hyperscalers to smaller enterprises, Digital Realty is
ideally positioned for continued growth in EMEA. I look forward to
leading our team and partnering with our customers to deliver
optimized connectivity and performance solutions, further
strengthening Digital Realty's customer value proposition."
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies
and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center,
colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the
company's global data center platform, provides customers with a
secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter
Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation
and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty
gives its customers access to the connected data communities that
matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+
facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To
learn more about Digital Realty, please visit
digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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