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.

VICE PRESIDENT MARKETING

As an enterprise data center, hybrid cloud and network infrastructure partner, ark’s innovative solutions and expertise empower customers to elevate their technology strategy without sacrificing the grounded, collaborative approach of a trusted regional provider. Their data-driven, people-powered and future-focused approach is your key to rising above the flood.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS

We’re redefining what it means to be a data center provider here at EdgeCore. Rather than working to keep pace with the demands of today, we’re focused on meeting the needs of tomorrow. To do this, we’ve built our business on eight core pillars that drive innovation and deliver certainty for our customers.

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER

Headquartered in London, UK, AtlasEdge is a cutting edge European Edge data centre platform comprised of 23 data centres with 80+ on net carriers in 12 countries serving 800+ customers. Built around you, their cutting-edge platform is engineered for speed, agility and performance, revolutionizing how data lives and moves across the continent. Their distributed data centre portfolio offers seamless, localized, and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure which allows customers to plan and shape their technology and network infrastructure requirements. With facilities physically located on the ‘edge’ of the network, they provide proximity to a core network critical for tomorrow’s technology.

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 DATA CENTER DESIGN & ENGINEERING

As an enterprise data center, hybrid cloud and network infrastructure partner, ark’s innovative solutions and expertise empower customers to elevate their technology strategy without sacrificing the grounded, collaborative approach of a trusted regional provider. Their data-driven, people-powered and future-focused approach is your key to rising above the flood.

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.