Active Searches

We’re privileged to share our active search mandates below. On the occasion you are interested in learning more, please contact Andy Lane, Managing Partner at andy@criticalfacility.com. If you’d like to be notified of new active searches, please include your resume with your email so that we can tailor notifications to match your credentials.

CFS Partners is a global executive search firm representing Private Equity and C-Suite requirements for companies that finance, develop, design, build, own, & operate digital infrastructure = data centers, fiber, renewables, energy, edge, towers, and DAS. We are privileged to share our precedent experience hiring executives who create exceptional investor and shareholder value during their company’s formative growth chapters amidst the convergence of the digital infrastructure industry.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT DEVELOPMENT

TA Digital was unofficially created in January 2023 with the appointment of Tim Shaheen as Chief Development Officer, Digital Real Estate. Tim is widely recognized as one of the most successful commercial executives in the data center market with impactful growth tenures with EdgeConneX and Aligned Data Centers. Tim is accountable for the strategy, planning, and execution of TA Digital in the development of its data center portfolio sites and leasing. TA Digital is the culmination of long-term strategic planning following Mitsubishi’s interest in digital infrastructure investment. TA Realty’s differentiating factors include their experience in fund sponsorship, their extensive network, a purpose-built platform focus, and an established and growing pipeline. TA Digital’s investment thesis is to capitalize on this growing, but fragmented digital infrastructure sector expected to have outsized impacts on the future economy by investing in the underlying real estate and ecosystem

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Headquartered in Coral Gables, FL, OpticalTel is a regional fiber broadband provider of a wide range of products and services, including high-speed internet, cloud-based video, and digital telephone services to communities in South and Central Florida. OpticalTel’s fiber networks offer residential services that include gigabit-speed internet, cloud-based IPTV video and digital telephone services. Additionally, multi-gigabit capabilities offer commercial customers fast and reliable service with an array of scalable solutions with next-generation cloud-powered features for any size business.

VICE PRESIDENT DESIGN & ENGINEERING

Involta is entering a new chapter of growth enabling a progressive era of AI defined network and data center solutions for hyperscale and enterprise customers. Involta builds new, Tier III-designed, state-of-the-art data centers fully connected by AI defined, low-latency private network in select markets across the US. The Vice President Design & Engineering (VPDE) will leverage his/her expertise with the executive team to reimagine the design and development of products that build and expand high-quality, multi-tenant data center facilities into a world class platform.

VICE PRESIDENT CONSTRUCTION

PointOne is a land and data center developer specializing in creating infrastructure-ready hyperscale data center sites and leveraging them into data center builds. We solve our customers’ capacity planning challenges by making earlier investments in sites and shortening our customers’ time-to-market.

VICE PRESIDENT ENERGY

DC BLOX vision is simple. Serve Locally, Connect Globally – Our mission is to empower growing communities with the digital infrastructure required to thrive in the digital economy. We do this by developing and operating secure, reliable tier III data centers, a robust connectivity ecosystem, and dark fiber solutions to businesses in growing markets in the Southeast US.

SENIOR DIRECTOR DESIGN & ENGINEERING

DC BLOX vision is simple. Serve Locally, Connect Globally – Our mission is to empower growing communities with the digital infrastructure required to thrive in the digital economy. We do this by developing and operating secure, reliable tier III data centers, a robust connectivity ecosystem, and dark fiber solutions to businesses in growing markets in the Southeast US.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Rowan Green Data (Rowan) is designed to deliver sustainable solutions to green data centers located on Rowan sites. Rowan’s scope of services includes land acquisition, built-environment, energy and water sustainability solutions, renewable power supply and other infrastructure.

Rowan has identified and is actively developing multiple, strategically located sites across the US to host next-generation, mission critical, hyperscale data centers. Rowan aims to design and configure each site to deliver sustained and long-term competitive advantages and assist hyperscale data center operators in meeting their accelerating carbon reduction and sustainability targets.