An occupational privilege I never take for granted is access to a variety of organization’s strategic charters and the senior executives who define them. My last column looked at Tim Caulfield’s journey to CEO of American Internet Service (AIS) in San Diego, CA. This time we we’re catching up with Chris Crosby, post-Digital Realty Trust (DLR) and pre-Compass Data Centers, his current venture.
Chris Crosby’s name is, for the time being, linked to DLR, which he co-founded, led to prominence, and used to define the industrialization of data center design, construction, financing, and ownership. Prior to DLR, Chris was founder and managing director of Proferian, the technology-related leasing platform within the GI Partners portfolio, which was rolled into the IPO for DLR. Prior to Proferian, Chris served as a consultant for CRG West, now Coresite. For the first ten years of his career, Chris was active in international and domestic sales, sales management, and product development at Nortel Networks, as an aside to multiple other early entrepreneurial ventures.