REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Jan. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company™, today announced the appointment of
Jon Lin to the position of EVP &
General Manager, Data Center Services, effective immediately.
In this newly created role, Lin will be responsible for driving the
performance of the Equinix Data Center Services portfolio,
developing and leading execution of a comprehensive and coordinated
strategy across the business aimed at ensuring sustained growth and
enhanced operating leverage from Equinix's market-leading
interconnected colocation franchise.
As the Data Center Services leader, Lin will have direct
responsibility for product management and the associated software
engineering teams supporting this portfolio of offerings. He will
partner closely with Equinix's global and regional leadership to
orchestrate resources across the company to: continue the expansion
of Equinix's global footprint; extend the company's leadership in
catalyzing the world's critical digital ecosystems; and drive
scaling and efficiency programs in pursuit of Equinix's long-term
margin expansion targets.
Highlights/Key Facts
- Lin has held various roles since joining Equinix in 2009, most
recently as President, Americas. In this role, he was responsible
for the regional management, strategy and growth plan for Equinix
in the Americas region, including operations in Brazil, Canada, Colombia and the U.S. Previously, Lin served
as Vice President, Americas Regional Corporate Development, where
he was a leader in one of the company's largest transactions - the
$3.6 billion acquisition of 29 data
centers from Verizon in 2017. In addition to managing the
integration of the Verizon data center assets into Equinix, he also
played a leading role in Equinix's acquisition of Infomart Dallas
in 2018.
- Before joining the Equinix Corporate Development team, Lin was
Senior Director of Regional P&L, managing the Equinix Americas
Southeast region. Under his leadership, Equinix became the fastest
growing provider in the region, increasing market share, revenues
and customer count.
- Lin joined Equinix in 2009 as Director of Innovation, where he
focused on identification and development of current and future
products and helped drive the initial formation of Equinix's
platform strategy. He then was promoted to Director, Corporate
Strategy, where he was instrumental in the development of Equinix
Cloud Exchange™, which remains the foundation of the company's core
interconnection services and is now known as Equinix Fabric™.
- Prior to Equinix, Lin served as Director of the Advanced
Solutions Group at Tata Communications. He also worked in a variety
of roles at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, including Product
Strategy, Sales and Consulting Services.
Quotes
- Charles Meyers, President and
Chief Executive Officer, Equinix
"Our Data Center Services portfolio continues to be the
cornerstone of Platform Equinix and is seeing strong momentum as
customers implement hybrid and multicloud as the architecture of
choice. To position Equinix for the future, we plan to continue to
simplify, automate and optimize our business and drive even better
cross-functional execution across our increasingly global platform.
Jon has delivered extraordinary results as the President of our
Americas business and is a great choice to lead and implement our
strategy to extend our global market leadership in interconnected
colocation, allowing us to scale our business, delight our
customers and enhance our operating leverage."
- Jon Lin, EVP & General
Manager, Data Center Services, Equinix
"Equinix continues to be a trusted resource for our
customers and partners as they prioritize digital transformation as
a critical business priority. I am honored to take on this exciting
role and work with our talented teams across the globe to define
and execute our strategy to fuel growth and extend our market
leadership. The strength of our global platform and our commitment
to continuous innovation enables us to deliver distinctive and
durable value to our customers as the demand for digital
infrastructure evolves to being more distributed, more
cloud-connected and more ecosystem-dependent than ever
before."
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure
company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to
bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure
that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to
access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need
to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility,
speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class
experiences and multiply their value.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in
such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such
differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of
acquiring, operating and constructing IBX® data centers and
developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and
solutions, unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a failure to
complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request
from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this
press release.
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