SINGAPORE & NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (“Stonepeak”), an infrastructure-focused private equity firm, and a group of seasoned senior executives formerly with Equinix, Facebook, Tata Communications and Macquarie, have formed a diversified, independent data center platform, Digital Edge, with a focus on acquiring and developing carrier-neutral data centers and related digital infrastructure assets across the Asia Pacific region, the company announced today. Stonepeak, its investors and the Digital Edge management team have together made a $1 billion equity capital commitment to the platform.
Headquartered in Singapore, Digital Edge (https://www.digitaledgedc.com/) aims to deliver innovative data center and interconnect solutions in order to make customer deployments easy in complex, evolving environments. The platform is led by CEO Samuel Lee, who previously served as President of Equinix’s Asia Pacific business from 2005 to 2019, and several individuals from his prior senior team at Equinix, including Kei Furuta, Andrew Rigoli and Jonathan Chou. They are joined by senior executives Jay Park, formerly with Facebook, John Freeman, formerly with Tata Communications, and Jonathan Walbridge, formerly with Macquarie.