Raul Saavedra

Raul is a market expert in the data center sector, leading Colliers’ national data center advisory practice and is based in San Francisco. For the past three years, he was the #1 Global producer at Colliers.

Before his time at Colliers, he was the Northern California Data Center practice lead for JLL and a Co-Chair for the Data Center Practice Group. Before that, he was a Senior Asset Manager for Digital Realty, a leading publicly traded international data center operator where he ran a portfolio of over 30+ data centers and had profit and loss responsibility. Raul is a data center transactional specialist who also focuses on capital markets in the sector. He has over 15 years of experience in acquisitions/dispositions and leasing, extensive experience with site selection, joint ventures, and financing, and has completed over 800MW of transactions throughout the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia. He serves on the Board of Visitors for Weinberg College at Northwestern University.