Colocation and Telecoms Veteran Wesley Klaus Joins Raeden as EVP

Raeden, the Marketplace for Last-Mile Technology Infrastructure, announced today veteran data center and telecommunications expert Wesley Klaus has joined the team as Executive Vice President, Sales and Partnerships.

“Raeden’s last-mile colocation and interconnection strategies require dual expertise across the domains of data centers and telecommunications. Wesley is an industry-recognized sales, solutions, and partnership expert with decades of experience across both industries, and he’s already making a significant impact on our organization,” said Kari Schrader, Co-Founder & CEO.

“Since the founding of Raeden, we have prioritized a customer-centric, solutions engineering-focused culture as one of our core values,” said Jason Green, Co-Founder & COO. “Knowing Wesley for more than ten years, I can personally attest to his success developing client relationships and constantly striving to support even the most complex requirements.”

“I am thrilled to be joining Raeden at such a pivotal moment in the colocation industry,” Wesley added. “The transformative developments at the Edge require sophisticated solutions engineering to meet our clients’ needs, and I am eager to contribute to these advancements moving forward.”

Wesley most recently served as Sales Colocation Director for Crown Castle, leveraging Crown’s real estate portfolio to provide Edge data center solutions. He was responsible for national revenue growth within Crown’s extensive data center and points-of-presence network.

As part of Crown’s Edge leadership team, Wesley helped define the firm’s Edge infrastructure strategy for the convergence of telecommunications and computing assets in a decentralized infrastructure model. Prior to joining Crown, Wesley spent over a decade with Data Foundry providing data center solutions.

Wesley and the Sales and Partnerships team can be reached at GetCloser@Raeden.com.