Board of Directors

Mary Hogan Preusse has served as director since 2017 and as Chair since 2022. She is currently a member of the Board’s Compensation Committee. Ms. Hogan Preusse served as a Managing Director and co-head of Americas Real Estate for APG Asset Management U.S., with responsibility for all of the firm’s public real state investments in North and South America. Ms. Hogan Preusse also served on the Executive Board of APG Asset Management U.S. and has been an active participant in the REIT industry for nearly 30 years. Prior to joining APG in 2000, Ms. Hogan Preusse was a sell-side analyst covering the REIT sector and began her career at Merrill Lynch as an investment banking analyst.

Ms. Hogan Preusse currently serves on the boards of directors of Kimco Realty, Realty Income, and Host Hotels and Resorts. Ms. Hogan Preusse is also a Senior Advisor at Fifth Wall, a venture capital firm focused on technology for the global real estate industry. Ms. Hogan Preusse graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, with a degree in Mathematics, and is a member of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees. In addition, she is also a member of the Real Estate Advisory Board for the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.

Stephen R. Bolze has served as a director since 2026 and is a member of the Audit Committee.

Mr. Bolze has built a 30-plus year career spanning infrastructure, industrial management, and global operations leadership. He most recently served as Senior Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Portfolio Operations and Asset Management at Blackstone, where he was a founding partner for the infrastructure business and worked closely with portfolio companies and currently serves as an Executive Advisor. Previously, Steve spent 24 years at General Electric in a series of senior executive roles, including President & CEO of GE Power & Water, where he led a $28 billion global organization across power generation equipment and services, renewables, distributed power, water, and nuclear, and served on the GE Corporate Executive Council. Steve holds a B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A from the University of Michigan.

Lt. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson has served as a director since 2020. She is currently a member of our Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Lt. Gen. Jamieson achieved the rank of Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force and, prior to retiring in 2002, served as the Director of the United States Air Force’s Intelligence Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects enterprise, conducting operations for the Department of Defense. She also served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and Deputy Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, and as Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Air Combat Command.

Lt. Gen. Jamieson serves on the board of advisors for Beacon Global Strategies and is a member of the board of directors of Rolls Royce North America, Inc. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from West Virginia University, and Master degrees in Strategic Studies and Aviation Management from the National Defense University and Embry Riddle University, respectively.

Kevin J. Kennedy has served as a director since 2013 and is currently Chair of our Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Mr. Kennedy currently serves as Chief Product Officer and chair of the board of directors of ZEVx, a private company that develops mobile charging for electric vehicles. Previously, Mr. Kennedy served as Chief Executive Officer of Quanergy Systems, a publicly traded provider of smart sensing solutions, and chair of the board of directors of Maxeon Solar Technologies, a global provider of solar products. He also served as Senior Managing Director at Blue Ridge Partners, a management consulting firm. Mr. Kennedy served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Avaya Inc., a global provider of real-time business collaboration and communications solutions, prior to which he served as a director and Chief Executive Officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation, a provider of optical communications products. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kennedy served at Openwave Systems, Cisco Systems, and AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a Presidential Appointee to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Mr. Kennedy also serves on the board of directors for KLA Corporation and UL Solutions. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree from Lehigh University and Master of Science, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University. Mr. Kennedy has also completed the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.

William G. LaPerch has served on our board of directors since 2013 and is currently Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of our Audit Committee.

Mr. LaPerch is a Senior Advisor at South Reach Networks, a dark fiber and networks company, and is the principal of LaPerch Consulting, which provides services to private equity firms in the network, data center and cloud segments. Mr. LaPerch served as the Executive Chairman at Hylan Datacom, a construction services company in the communications infrastructure space and was Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the board of directors at AboveNet, Inc., a provider of bandwidth infrastructure services. Previously, Mr. LaPerch served as President, Network Services and President, Enterprise Services for Metromedia Fiber Network, a provider of metro fiber services, and held various operations and engineering positions at MCI Worldcom and NYNEX.

Mr. LaPerch is a member of the board of directors of Windstream Holdings, Inc., a provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions, and is on the board of directors of First Light, a provider of telecommunications services in upstate New York and New England. Mr. LaPerch is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University. He also has successfully completed the Carnegie Mellon Cyber Security program for directors.

Jean F.H.P. Mandeville has served as a director since March 2020 and is currently a member of our Board’s Audit Committee.

Mr. Mandeville previously served as chair of the board of directors of Interxion until its acquisition by Digital Realty. Mr. Mandeville also served as Chief Financial Officer and a board member of MACH S.à.r.l, a software services company serving the telecommunications industry. He was an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Global Crossing Holdings Ltd./Global Crossing Ltd. and was Chief Financial Officer of Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte. Ltd./ST Telemedia. Previously, Mr. Mandeville was President of Asia Pacific for British Telecom and was a Senior Consultant with Coopers & Lybrand, Belgium.

Mr. Mandeville is a graduate of the University Saint-Ignatius Antwerp with a Master Degree in Applied Economics and a Special Degree in Sea Law.

Afshin Mohebbi has served as a director since 2016 and is Chair of our Audit Committee and a member of our Compensation Committee.

Mr. Mohebbi is a senior advisor to TPG Capital, focusing on technology and telecom investments globally and an investor in and advisor to numerous start-up technology firms. Mr. Mohebbi was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of Qwest Communications International Inc. and has held senior-level executive positions at British Telecom Plc., SBC Communications and Pacific Bell. He was previously a member of the board of directors and audit committee for Dish Networks.

Mr. Mohebbi received Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees, from the University of California, Irvine.

Mark R. Patterson has served as a director since 2016 and is currently a member of our Board’s Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.

Mr. Patterson is President of MRP Holdings LLC and Senior Advisor at Rockefeller Capital Management. Mr. Patterson also serves as an advisor to Investcorp International and Energy Impact Partners. Previously, Mr. Patterson served as Chief Executive Officer of Boomerang Systems, Inc. Mr. Patterson also served as Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Global Principal Investments, as well as Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and Co-Head of Global Commercial Real Estate at Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he served as the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking at Citigroup.

Mr. Patterson is chair of the board of directors at Americold Realty Trust and a member of the boards of directors at UDR and Paramount Group. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the College of William and Mary, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Andrew (Andy) Power is Chief Executive Officer and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Digital Realty since 2022. Andy also has served as Digital Realty’s President since 2021 and as Chief Financial Officer since 2015 with responsibility for global portfolio operations, technology development and innovation, service provider and enterprise customer solutions, asset management and information technology, as well as the company’s financial functions across its global platform.

Prior to joining Digital Realty, Andy served as Managing Director of Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and was responsible for relationships with over 40 public and private companies, including Digital Realty. Previously, Andy was employed by Citigroup, where he held similar positions of increasing responsibility within the Real Estate Investment Banking group. During his career, he has managed the execution of over $30 billion of public and private capital raises, including the largest REIT IPO to date, and more than $19 billion of merger and acquisition transactions. Andy was part of the lead underwriting team that advised Digital Realty on its initial public offering in 2004 and served as a lead manager on nearly every subsequent public capital raise.

Andy also serves on the Board of Directors of Americold Realty Trust. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Analytical Finance from Wake Forest University.

Ms. Swanezy has served as a director since 2024.

Ms. Swanezy was a Partner of Hodes Weill & Associates where she led the firm's Infrastructure and other Real Assets initiatives, raised capital for real estate strategies, and was a member of the firm's Operating Committee. Prior to Hodes Weill, Ms. Swanezy was an executive at Credit Suisse, Stockbridge Capital Partners and Deutsche Bank, where she played a leading role in the firm's acquisition of RREEF and worked with institutional investors across a variety of real estate investment strategies and vehicles following the acquisition.

Ms. Swanezy serves on the board of directors of AvalonBay Communities and is also a current member of the Pension Real Estate Association and WX Women Executives in Real Estate. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.