Director, APAC Integration Lead

The APAC Integration Lead is responsible for leading the planning, execution, governance, and successful delivery of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures across the APAC Region. This role serves as the regional integration leader, partnering closely with Regional Managing Directors, Acquisitions teams, functional executives, and integration stakeholders to define integration strategies and ensure successful execution of acquired businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams. The Regional Integration Leader will serve as the primary point of accountability for integrations within their assigned geography while balancing regional business needs with enterprise priorities.

As Digital Realty continues its global expansion through both organic growth and acquisitions, this leader will play a critical role in ensuring the successful integration of new businesses and assets while delivering a seamless experience for customers, employees, and stakeholders. The role is accountable for driving integration activities from transaction close through full operational integration, ensuring alignment with enterprise integration standards, governance requirements, and value realization objectives.

M&A Integration Leadership:

• Lead end-to-end integration planning and execution for acquisitions, strategic investments, and divestitures across the APAC region.

• Partner with Acquisitions teams, Regional Managing Directors, Corporate Development, and executive sponsors to develop post-close integration strategies and execution plans.

• Serve as the regional integration leader responsible for ensuring successful integration of acquired businesses, data centers, operations, systems, processes, and teams.

• Lead cross-functional integration efforts across Finance, Operations, Technology, HR, Legal, Sales, Product, and Customer Success organizations.

• Develop and maintain integrated master plans, workstream plans, milestones, dependencies, and regional execution roadmaps.

• Drive Day 1 readiness, Day 100 execution, operational transitions, and long-term integration objectives.

• Identify, monitor, and mitigate integration risks, issues, and dependencies while ensuring timely escalation and resolution.

• Oversee Transition Service Agreement (TSA) planning, execution, management, and exit activities, where applicable.

• Ensure integration activities are completed with minimal disruption to customers, employees, and ongoing business operations. 

Regional Stakeholder Leadership & Business Partnership: 

• Serve as the trusted integration advisor to Regional Managing Directors and senior regional leadership teams.

• Partner closely with regional business leaders to align integration activities with strategic priorities, growth objectives, and operational requirements.

• Collaborate with Acquisitions teams during due diligence and pre-close planning activities to identify integration requirements, risks, dependencies, and resource needs.

• Establish strong relationships across regional functional leadership teams to drive accountability and successful execution.

• Facilitate alignment between regional business priorities and enterprise integration standards.

• Drive organizational readiness, change management, and stakeholder engagement activities throughout the integration lifecycle.

Integration Governance & Executive Oversight: 

• Execute integrations in alignment with enterprise Integration Management Office methodologies, governance frameworks, and standards.

• Lead regional governance forums, workstream reviews, and integration operating cadences.

• Monitor integration progress, milestone achievement, decision logs, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution activities.

• Ensure timely executive reporting and escalation of material risks and challenges.

• Coordinate integration communications across workstreams and stakeholder groups.

• Maintain visibility into integration health, readiness metrics, and execution performance across the regional portfolio.

• Support lessons-learned reviews and implementation of integration best practices. 

Regional Integration Delivery: 

• Maintain oversight of multiple concurrent acquisition and integration initiatives across the region.
• Prioritize integration activities, resource allocation, and execution plans to support evolving business priorities.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure successful delivery of integration objectives.
• Track critical-path activities and ensure key deliverables are completed according to schedule.
• Monitor integration budgets, resource requirements, and project performance.

Partner with external consultants, service providers, and integration support resources as required. 

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Engineering, or a related field required; MBA preferred.

• Experience: 8+ years of experience leading M&A integrations, Integration Management Offices, program management offices, or large-scale business integration programs.

• Demonstrated success managing complex integration initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, business functions, and workstreams.
• Experience partnering directly with senior executives and regional leadership teams.
• Strong program management and governance experience with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.
• Experience working within global and matrixed organizations.
• Strong financial and operational acumen with experience measuring business outcomes and value realization.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, relationship management, and problem-solving skills. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within a leading management consulting firm (e.g., Big4, AlixPartners, Bain, McKinsey, BCG, or equivalent) supporting M&A integrations, post-merger integration initiatives, carve-outs, synergy realization, and operating model design.

• Experience designing governance frameworks, executive steering committees, and enterprise integration methodologies.

• Experience supporting acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, or business integrations within data center, technology, infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate, or related industries.

• Experience working across the APAC geography with a strong understanding of regional business dynamics and stakeholder management.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and drive execution across diverse global teams.