Morning Energy Live With Jim Footh | Where to Build My Data Center

Jim Footh is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate on the global Data Center Investments team. Based in Seattle, Washington, Jim has transactional and portfolio management responsibilities for investments made by PGIM Real Estate in the data center sector and is a senior member of the Global Data Center Strategy portfolio management team. Before joining PGIM Real Estate, Jim spent eight-years as a senior leader within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure team. His most recent role was the senior manager of AWS Strategy and Planning leading a team of infrastructure planners to develop private-cloud infrastructure solutions for AWS U.S. government and non-U.S. government clients. Previously, Jim was a principal at AWS Strategy and Technical Leadership group where he had a global role focused on solving difficult and systemic infrastructure expansion challenges for new and existing AWS commercial regions. Jim also held roles as the managing principal for AWS EMEA & APAC Data Center Development with responsibility for leading teams managing all data center development across both the AWS EMEA and APAC regions. Earlier roles at AWS included Real Estate Development Manager of Western U.S., Canada and Latin America overseeing all AWS data center developments in these regions.

Andrew joined RSEG, now part of Enverus, in early 2015 as the desk strategist. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Andrew brings a unique perspective to the team through his daily note, Morning Energy, and constant interaction with clients. Andrew started his career in energy working for Louis Dreyfus in a business development role for its midstream asset portfolio. He later joined a family office where he advised on both public and private investing in the energy space. Andrew received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in History from Colgate University.