As senior vice president of strategic marketing, Josh Buis leads the company’s global market strategy, marketing and global account management teams. In this role, he oversees the departments responsible for shaping Vantage’s go-to-market strategy, driving brand and customer engagement, and aligning global account initiatives to support the company’s rapid international expansion.
With over 25 years of experience in sales, business development, site selection and acquisition within the data center industry, Buis brings deep expertise and a proven track record of scaling infrastructure platforms globally.
Prior to joining Vantage, Buis was a partner and founder at Data Center Advisory Group where he advised capital sources and operators on funding strategies, M&A and market entry across global regions. During his six-year tenure at AWS, he led the due diligence, acquisition and delivery of scalable, cost-efficient data center infrastructure in 10 countries, seeding the early growth of AWS’s global cloud footprint. He later led the global team responsible for these functions. Earlier in his career, Buis held leadership roles at IBM, Yahoo!, CBRE and AT&T.
Buis earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Texas A&M University.