Jon Paulsen

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Co-Managing Partner
jpaulsen@cloudcntrs.com

Expertise

  • Team leadership, strategic and joint venture partnerships, long term value creation
  • Investment strategy, wholesale and retail business development, deal structuring
  • Data center sales, channel penetration, risk management

Career Highlights

  • A founding executive of Digital Realty (DLR), which created one of the world’s largest data center REIT
  • Key contributor to the DLR team that assembled a 22-property portfolio valued at $1.2B
  • Pioneered the practice of pursuing data center opportunities as a third-party provider
  • International wholesale colocation, data center, and acquisitions experience

Data Center Experience

  • Oceanic Data Centers, Partner
  • Engineered Fluids, Advisor
  • Digital Realty (DLR), VP, Acquisitions | Data Center Channel Sales
  • GI Partners, Director of Acquisitions

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Economics and German, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • , Economics, History, IES Vienna, Austria