DATA CENTER EXECUTIVE SEARCH AND TALENT ADVISORY

FINDING THE TALENT TO PROTECT AND ENRICH YOUR ASSETS

Leadership For Global Digital Acceleration

Executive Search
Talent Advisory

DATA CENTER EXECUTIVE SEARCH AND TALENT ADVISORY 

Portman Partners excels in global data center executive search and advisory, crafting future-ready leadership teams. As a niche firm, we foster strong relationships, specializing in senior-level appointments with sector specific focus. Renowned as industry leaders, we collaborate with top clients in data center, internet, and cloud infrastructure. Uniquely dedicated, we connect with global entities, including:

Data Center Executive Search

  • Digital Infrastructure investors (PE, VC and Family Offices) and their portfolio companies.
  • Hyperscale, Cloud, Colocation, Edge and HPC Data Center operators.
  • Data Center Consultants and Construction firms.
  • Tech and Plant OEM’s.
  • Connectivity providers.
  • Software and Service providers.

Data Center Executive Search

Portman Partners is a trusted advisor and headhunting firm. Therefore helping our clients find, attract, persuade, and craft the best-fit, future-ready, digital infrastructure leadership teams is our focus. We are, however, less interested in transactional business and focus more on relational business. By becoming an extension of your team, it enables us to have a significant impact on your success at finding, hiring, and retention. And, in addition, we provide on-going and in-depth guidance and support, helping you make informed decisions.

TRANSFORMATION

Worldwide the internet continues to transform how we connect with others, organize the flow of things, and share information. Internet traffic is accelerating exponentially, and we are relying on our supporting digital infrastructure more then ever.

 From hyperscale and hyperhub to edge, our digital infrastructure provides the ability to move our workforce from office to home, facilitates remote education, and enables supply chain agility for retail, manufacturing, utilities, petrol stations, transportation, and the like.  It supports businesses, governments, hospitals, police, and the military. It aids scientists in conducting research, modelling and forecasting and helps people connect.

Whether it be Cloud, your CRM, TikTok, Twitter, the Metaverse or YouTube Digital infrastructure is the backbone and heartbeat of it all.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Reducing the carbon footprint! Today, climate change is widely understood to be an extinction-level event, and the digital infrastructure industry has endured attacks from activists and media.

While we know much of that criticism is undeserved, we realize the business bears a great amount of responsibility, not only for addressing its own energy consumption and carbon emissions, but as leaders and an example for sustainability for all industries.

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DIVERSITY

Discussions around equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDI&B) have been high on the agenda of human resources teams, organisational leaders and boards for some time, the importance of cognitive diversity has often been overlooked or misunderstood. While many organisations have been busy ticking the diversity box by extending opportunities to traditionally under-represented groups the underpinning rationale for this is often missed.

It’s entirely correct that we should be questioning why many organisations are flagging regarding the representation of women, but broader diversity must be the end game. Boards and other leadership structures must represent the communities they serve, and this suggests that the ‘future board’ is needed now.

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LEADERSHIP

Termed ‘innovative leadership,’ today’s senior executives apply innovation and creativity to managing people, projects and the company as a whole. Innovative leadership inspires teams to contribute and elevate their own participation in the company’s growth.

Employees at companies that are led with innovation leaders are more productive, have much lower churn rates, burn out rates and much higher levels of commitment, loyalty and drive to exceed expectations.

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“Portman Partners understand today’s challenges with sourcing top talent in a booming industry and take the time to understand the nuances of our culture and present candidates that would fit both with our company and the role.”

– ANN CARLTON, SVP People & Culture AT COMPASS DATA CENTRES

practice AREAS

Search

Finding the ideal person to fill a vacancy on your executive board, in a senior team, or for a specialist position requires the services of a trusted advisor with an intimate inside knowledge of data center executive search and the digital infrastructure sector.

DIRECTORS

Portman Partners has an extensive network of senior executives who can bring a wealth of experience to assist organisations during periods of growth or change.

Executives

On short notice, Portman Partners supports clients with interim executives to provide cover during mergers and acquisitions, business transformations or periods requiring crisis management. 

ADVISORY

Our intimate knowledge of the sector globally will ensure that exemplary leadership is in place to represent the investors’ interests and protect and grow the value of associated investments.