- Samuel Lee ascends to the position of senior table consultant.
- Samuel Lee to be succeeded to John Freeman as CEO in Q2 2025.
Leading developer and operator of interconnection and hyperscale edge data centers across Asia and a Stonepeak portfolio company, Digital Edge ( Singapore ) Holdings Pte Ltd. has announced that John Freeman, the group’s president, will take Samuel Lee’s place as CEO effective in the second quarter of 2025. In tandem, Lee will move to the responsibility of senior consultant to the board. Additionally, Digital Edge announced that market veterans Eanna Murphy and Maile Kaiser may serve as non-executive managers.
Freeman is an expert head with more than two and a half years in the information center and Firm economy, leading international groups across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and MEA. He was a founding member of Digital Edge, a member of the company’s board since its foundation, and held positions as adherence officer and chief legal & before assuming the position of group president in 2024.
The club’s two new non-executive managers, Maile Kaiser and Eanna Murphy, furthermore have considerable information centre experience. Kaiser is now chief revenue officer at CoreSite, having joined in 2012, and recently held jobs at IO Data Centers, AboveNet, and Oracle. Murphy is a mature working partner at Stonepeak and formerly served as Yondr’s chief operating officer. He founded Yondr’s program in the Americas. Additionally, he spent more than ten years on Google’s data center team in top positions.
Their appointments, along with Freeman’s shift to CEO, promote Digital Edge’s commitment to excellence in management and development, positioning the business for continued progress in the rapidly evolving digital infrastructure landscape.
Freeman stated in a statement regarding his visit,” I am honored to move into the role of CEO and excited about the opportunity to work alongside our partners and the extremely talented team at Digital Edge to provide our customers with timely and various AI- and cloud-ready data centers and connectivity solutions.”
Lee remarked,” I take great pride in what we have built and with great confidence in the future of Digital Edge as I move to the position of senior advisor.” I am honestly grateful for the support of our people, customers, and associates throughout my career. Freeman is a revolutionary leader with a passion for the crew, our clients, and the communities we serve, and I look forward to the company’s ongoing accomplishment under his leadership”.
We are quite appreciative of Lee’s leadership as the company has expanded over the past five years, according to Andrew Thomas, top managing director at Stonepeak and chairman of Digital Edge. Additionally, we are delighted to welcome Kaiser and Murphy to the table, both of whom bring world-class business expertise as we expand.
To support its next growth phase, Digital Edge recently secured more than US$ 1.6 billion ( RM7 billion ) in new capital through a combination of equity and debt financing. With this funding, the business can expand more quickly and effectively in response to the region’s growing and changing demand for cloud and artificial intelligence.
Founded in early 2020, Digital Edge now owns and operates 21 data centres, delivering over 500MW of critical IT weight in company and under building across Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Additionally, the company has a further 300MW of development available for strategic locations.