Jonathan H. King

Jonathan H. King is the Chief Revenue Officer at Switch. In this role, Jonathan leads sales, channel and ecosystem strategy, development and go to market execution. Jonathan brings over 25 years of diverse operating experience in every facet of the data center business and surrounding technology ecosystem. Jonathan joined Switch from Google Cloud where he led partnership and ecosystem development including the launch of Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud’s Telecom & Edge ecosystem.

Before joining Google, Jonathan was VP of Strategy, Data Center & Cloud at World Wide Technology (“WWT”) where he was responsible for technology and services strategy, data center solutions and founding WWT’s multi-cloud architecture practice. Prior to WWT, Jonathan served as VP, GM at Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden where he launched a new as a service business unit and led product area cloud strategy, portfolio management, business development and alliance development. Jonathan also held various executive positions with CenturyLink as VP of Platform Strategy and Business Development, VP of Cloud Strategy & Business Development and VP of Global Cloud Solutions. Prior to CenturyLink, Jonathan was SVP of Business Development at Joyent, now a Samsung company, where he led alliance development, ecosystem formation and strategic business development. Before Joyent, Jonathan was a Client Partner Director with the Global Solutions group of Verizon Business where he led teams designing and selling complex hosting, managed services and transformational outsourcing solutions for commercial and government customers. Jonathan joined Verizon by way of acquisition when Verizon/MCI acquired Totality where he was VP of Alliance Development. Moreover, he held various executive positions with Exodus Communications, a market leading global hosting provider, including VP of Channel Marketing and VP of Strategic Alliances.

Jonathan is a regular keynote speaker at various technology and policy conferences and has served on numerous advisory boards. Jonathan holds a B.A. in History from Miami University, a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a LL. M. in Intellectual Property and Technology Law from Washington University in St Louis School of Law. Jonathan’s academic publications include The Three Paradoxes of Big Data (Stanford Law Review Online 2013), Big Data Ethics (Wake Forest Law Review 2014), Big Data and the Future For Privacy (Handbook of Research on Digital Transformations, Elgar 2016) and Big Data Sustainability, An Environmental Systems Analogy (Washington and Lee Law Journal, March 2016).