Joseph D. Russell, geboren am 14. Februar 1960 in San Francisco, Kalifornien, ist seit dem 1. Januar 2019 Chief Executive Officer von Public Storage. Er hat einen Bachelor of Arts in Economics von der Stanford University und einen MBA von der Harvard Business School. Russell trat 2003 in das Unternehmen ein. Sein Vermögen wird auf 40 Millionen USD geschätzt. Russell besitzt Anteile an Public Storage.

Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500, is a REIT that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage facilities. At September 30, 2020, we had: (i) interests in 2,504 self-storage facilities located in 38 states with approximately 171 million net rentable square feet in the United States, (ii) an approximate 35% common equity interest in Shurgard Self Storage SA (Euronext Brussels:SHUR) which owned 239 self-storage facilities located in seven Western European nations with approximately 13 million net rentable square feet operated under the Shurgard brand and (iii) an approximate 42% common equity interest in PS Business Parks, Inc. (NYSE:PSB) which owned and operated approximately 28 million rentable square feet of commercial space at September 30, 2020. Our headquarters are located in Glendale, California.