Leadership Team

  • Jake Wagner currently serves as a Principal and Managing Partner at Colossus Data Center Advisors. Jake co-founded Colossus with a clear focus on making digital infrastructure investments understandable and actionable. With nearly a decade of direct data center experience, he specializes in critical areas including site selection, conversions, power procurement, development oversight, and financial structuring. Jake’s approach combines a deep sectoral knowledge with a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics, ensuring investments are positioned for optimal performance and maximum value creation. Jake has led several data center development initiatives, overseeing power procurement, managing project teams, and navigating complex entitlement and environmental processes.

    Prior to Colossus, Jake was a Senior Vice President at StratCap Data Centers where he was focused on acquisitions, portfolio strategy, asset monetization initiatives, and financings, for PIMCO and other StratCap managed funds. Before joining StratCap, Jake was at JLL and most recently served as Director and Co-Lead of the Company’s Data Center Capital Markets Group. Prior to that, he was a member of JLL’s Corporate Finance Group where he focused on sale leaseback and build-to-suit transactions across various property types including data center, office, and industrial.

    Jake holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Dillon Zahler, co-founder of Colossus, is a mechanical engineer by degree with a career dedicated exclusively to the data center industry. Throughout his tenure, he has amassed a wealth of experience across all facets of data center development, design, construction, and execution strategy for over 4 gigawatts of data center projects. From product strategy to site selection, due diligence, power procurement, design, construction management, testing/commissioning, and retrofits/expansions, Dillon has demonstrated a breadth of knowledge that encompasses the entire data center lifecycle.

    Staring his career as an MEP engineer in the data center industry, Dillon was quick to put his technical knowledge to work in construction management. As the onsite lead project manager for several large data center projects nationality, Dillon learned how impactful early-stage development decisions can be on the overall success of a project years later. Dillon then began to lead the new development program for a large data center operator, establishing a comprehensive process for data center development which involved building a site selection/planning process and overseeing over a gigawatt of utility power applications. Applying his diverse knowledge to the consulting industry, Dillon has been able to aid dozens of newcomers to the industry, bridging the technical gap between traditional real estate development and data centers.

    Dillon holds a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.