As chief commercial officer for Vantage Data Centers’ North America region, Christophe Strauven leads the company’s commercial strategy, including investments, partnerships, deal structuring and portfolio management, across the United States and Canada. He brings nearly 30 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking and corporate finance to his role at Vantage, drawing on his leadership, trust and deep industry knowledge to strengthen relationships and drive growth.
Strauven previously served as chief financial officer for North America where he led the region’s finance, financial planning and analysis, accounting and tax functions. Before that, he was senior vice president, capital markets at Vantage, where he developed and executed the global capital-raising strategy through debt financing and financial risk management.
Prior to joining Vantage, Strauven was a managing director at Digital Colony (now Digital Bridge Group, Inc.), a lead investor in Vantage, where he spearheaded the European credit investment initiative. Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, advising on and executing leveraged loan and high-yield transactions, and held positions at Goldman Sachs in London and the Boston Consulting Group in Brussels and Paris.
Strauven earned an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Universite Libré de Bruxelles.