Equinix Appoints Jon Lin as EVP & GM, Data Center Services

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company™, announced on Friday 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.

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.

Charles Meyers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Equinix, said, "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."