PGIM Real Estate bolsters global data center investment strategy with senior hire

PGIM Real Estate has hired James “Jim” Footh as it continues to build out its global data center investment strategy.

Footh has been appointed as a managing director on the global data center Investments portfolio management team. Based in Seattle, he will have transactional and portfolio management responsibilities for investments made by PGIM Real Estate in the data center sector.

Footh joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where among other roles he was responsible for all data center infrastructure development and portfolio oversight of AWS data centers in the western half of the United States, Canada, Latin America, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. He brings more than 30 years of real estate experience to the role, having worked for a range of market participants in the United States and Europe before joining AWS.

“The availability of large amounts of low-latency data processing capacity is becoming increasingly critical to the global economy and societ