Jim Kerrigan, SIOR

NORTH AMERICAN DATA CENTERS is a provider of commercial real estate brokerage and advisory services. The firm continues to what matter most related to ESG and transformer supply constraints. NADC has participated in or executed transactions in every major data center market in the U.S. and Canada with top developers, financial institutions, colocation, telecommunication companies, and wholesale providers. ● 2016 & 2019 RECIPIENT OF SIOR LARGEST DOLLAR TRANSACTION AWARD Sold 21 NNN single tenant properties in Northern Virginia totalling 2.2MM SF. Runner up in 2022. ● RENEWALS - Jim's background in real estate has been crucial in negotiating over 1.5MM sf of data center renewals. Some of these clients include Comcast, Equinix, Flexential, Fidelity Information Systems, DEFT, Savvis, and Verizon. ● EDGE DATA CENTERS - In 2016 Comcast roll out 15 edge locations to host cloud DVR platform. Completed 10 transactions in 90 days. Spent the subsequent 6 years, expanding and renewing various locations. ● COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Since 1998, Jim has bought deep market expertise in every United States and Canadian data center markets, with uncontested access to real-time information on vacancy and recent comparable transactions. His insights on data center site selection, incentives involved in the real estate decision, financial analysis, and creativity in deal structure are unmatched. ● BENEFITS OF ENGAGEMENT Specialties include, but are not limited to: ● Identifying Large Land Parcels with Access to 1GW + in Key Markets ● Data Center Sale & Leaseback ● Renewals ● Hybrid Cloud implementation ● Colocation ● Site Selection ● Private Cloud Solution Design ● Metric Analysis – kW/Rack & Rack Maximization ● Strategic Plans for EBITDA Maximization ● Lease & SLA Negotiations

In this role, Jim provided brokerage and consulting services to pension funds, tenants, and landlords, regarding data center strategies throughout the US and Canada. He successfully completed transactions for Comcast, Corporate Office Properties Trust, Liberty Mutual, Oxford Properties, Singlehop, Sony and Transaction Network Services.

During his tenure, Jim created a national data center group for one of the largest national real estate companies providing services that run the gamut from helping companies find debt and equity to evaluating wholesale data center pods. Members of his team were diversified geographically and by skillset employing electrical engineers, data center managers and data center constuction experts. Clients included Cincinnati Bell, Citigroup, Equinix, Guardian Life Insurance, Liberty Mutual, NREA, ServerCentral, and United Airlines amongst others.

Prior to JLL acquisition of Staubach, Jim served as the co-leader of the largest data center group representing only tenants. He worked with several of the largest telecommunication firms in helping them create telco hotels. He also signed the first lease at 350 East Cermak with Frontier Communications. Other data center clients included ALLTEL, DuPont Fabros, Equinix, Fidelity, MCI, Verizon and XO amongst numerous others. Additionally, Jim was an innovator at helping clients understand various data center issues and effectively negotiating expansion and other legal issues. Prior to immersing in a data center-focused career, he completed over 200,000 sf annually of the largest office lease transactions in the Chicago area becoming the youngest principal in the Staubach Company.

I started my career doing market research at Julien Studley and then was recruited by the leading broker in the country from Studley to work as a tenant representative at Galbreath before taking on the job at TBS. I Specialized in respresenting software companies and telecommunication companies creating environments that met their facility needs and created for high growth companies. Worked with companies such as Cyborg Systems, Galileo International and General Instrument, and Sapient Corporation. Much of the skills I developed in market research during this period of time led to the creation of the North American Data Centers annual newsletter.