Serene Nah leads Digital Realty’s strategic growth in established and new markets to further the reach and deliver the value of the company’s global data center platform, PlatformDIGITAL®, across Asia Pacific.
Nah has extensive expertise in finance, mergers and acquisitions, and business transformation from her previous roles at General Electric, Silverlake Partners, and most recently, as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at Kerry Properties, where she led finance, corporate development, strategy, and operations.
In addition to her role at Digital Realty, Nah currently chairs the board of Digital Core REIT and is Vice Chair of the Asia Pacific Data Center Association (APDCA), where she leads efforts to drive unified dialogue on data center policy across the region. She is a strong supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion and is the executive sponsor of Digital Realty’s Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF) in the region.
She has a Bachelor of Business from Nanyang Technological University and an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST.
At the start of 2023, you were appointed to your current role. Can you share with us how your breadth of financial advisory experience and knowledge across real estate and technology industries prepared you for this role, and what your journey at Digital Realty has been like so far?
A big part of how this opportunity coalesced with my background was laid out by our President and Chief Executive Officer, Andy Power, when he hired me. They were looking for somebody with strong financial acumen and deep knowledge of Asia Pacific, with a strong business development track record. My background in real estate, technology-focused private equity, and finance, with an emphasis on business transformation technology and finance, was a great fit.
My journey so far has been dynamic and deeply rewarding. I began by becoming familiar with the portfolio—coming to terms with the profit and loss (P&L) and the different teams—and quickly moved into spearheading growth initiatives across mature and emerging markets. As we refreshed our strategy, we focused on delivering our global platform strategy in the region and building future-ready digital infrastructure.
