There’s new leadership at Cologix, where industry veteran Bill Fathers has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Grant van Rooyen. The executive change comes a year after Cologix was acquired by private equity firm Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, where Fathers has been a key player in the company’s data center strategy.
Cologix is a colocation and interconnection provider that operates 24 data centers across nine markets in the United States and Canada. The company is notable for its focus on carrier neutral facilities and meet-me rooms in connectivity hubs in regional markets, with facilities in Minneapolis, New Jersey, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Fla. and Columbus, Ohio in the U.S. and Canadian sites in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
“Cologix is a critical component of North America’s digital infrastructure,” said Fathers. “Our combination of cloud and interconnection hubs, advanced switching fabric, and fiber networks positions the company to become the epicenter of new and emerging ecosystems while continuing to ride the wave of enterprise IT transformation and cloud adoption. This is an incredibly exciting time to be taking on this role and continuing to build out this industry-leading platform.”
Experience in Interconnection
Fathers brings a breadth of experience to his new position. Prior to being appointed Cologix CEO, Bill was most recently Executive Vice President of Cloud Services at VMware and previously served as President of Savvis, a public data center and cloud infrastructure provider. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Telx, a leading cross-connection and colocation platform. Interconnection was a key emphasis of the colocation businesses at both Savvis and Telx.
