Dr. Christopher Stief

Dr. Christopher Stief founded DATA CENTER PARTNERS in 2021 and leads the business as its Chief Executive. Christopher is a Data Center expert with +10 years of industry experience. He has proven track records from large colocation- and hyperscale developments to aggregate more than 250 MW, primarily across Tier 1 and Tier 2 European data center markets.

Christopher was previously a Senior Director at a leading family office in Germany, where he was commercially responsible for Data Center site origination, development and execution for the firm’s digital infrastructure fund. Prior to that, Christopher worked as Executive Project Manager to CEO at e-shelter (acquired by NTT Global Data Centers EMEA), a leading international Data Center operator, where he focused on site identification and development.

Christopher earned a bachelor‘s degree in economics from the Ludwig- Maximilians-University of Munich, a master’s degree in business administrati on from the Alliant University of San Diego (California) and a doctoral degree (PhD) from Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz in business administration.