Christian Belady, P.E., Director of Hardware Architecture - Partner Extreme Computing Group, Microsoft Research
A recognized leader in the industry, Christian Belady is the Director of Hardware Architecture in the Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research where he leads a team responsible for exploring hardware opportunities related to the future of client plus cloud computing. Prior to his current role, he was Microsoft’s Principal Infrastructure Architect for Global Foundation Services where his role was to improve both efficiency and cost in their online services infrastructure. His responsibilities included driving initiatives for sustainability in the data center and infrastructure space, and he was one of the key architects for the Generation 4 modular data centers.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Christian was a Distinguished Technologist for HP where his responsibilities included driving the technology direction in HP's server products and their environments, as well as driving industry data center initiatives. In addition, his earlier employers include Convex Computers (acquired by HP), TI and IBM.

With over 77 US patents and many international patents, Christian is an ASME and IMAPS Fellow and a founding member of ASHRAE's TC9.9, which is responsible for developing data center guidelines. He was one of the early architects of the Green Grid and currently the treasurer for the organization, and is an originator of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center which is now broadly used by the industry. He also works closely with government agencies globally to define efficiency metrics for data centers and servers.

Christian has published several dozen papers, is frequently quoted in the press, and is a featured speaker on power and cooling trends in the industry. Since the late 1990s, the focus of his publications has been on data centers and the industry’s need for engineering efficient computing environments. Christian holds engineering degrees from Cornell University (BS) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS) and a business degree from the University of Texas at Dallas (MA) where he was honored with the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dr. Paolo Bertoldi, Principal Administrator, European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
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Ellen Brigham, Director of Product Marketing - Juniper Networks
Ellen Brigham is Director of Product Marketing at Juniper Networks responsible for Data Center products and solutions. With over three decades of experience developing products and solutions for data center infrastructure, she has held multiple management positions in networking at Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Tymnet. Ellen holds a Masters Degree from Stanford University and is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Candi Carrera, Director Client Service Operations, eBRC
coming soon.

Paul-François Cattier, Vice President France, Benelux & French speaking Africa, APC by Schneider Electric
coming soon.

Pieter Duijves, Managing Director, Parthenon Data Centres BV
In 2008 Pieter Duijves founded Parthenon Data Centres together with Kevin Burton. Parthenon is specialized in developing highly sustainable datacenters. Before he worked at Global Crossing where he was responsible for the engineering and construction of the European network, including 43 datacenters in 16 countries. From 2004 thru 2007 he was the Managing Director Europe for Global Crossing. He worked for Philips, AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent in several research and management roles, latest being Director of the Optical Networking Business Unit. He lived and worked in the Netherlands, Belgium, England and the United States. He holds a masters degree of the Technical University Delft and followed an MBA at Washington University. He holds two US patents.

Charlie Forte, Vice President, Global Operations and Infrastructure, BP
Charlie Forte is Vice President, Global Operations and Infrastructure (GOI), at BP, one of the world’s largest energy companies. He belongs to the senior leadership team of the company’s global Information Technology & Services Technology (IT&S) organisation. Charlie is accountable for the day-to-day operation of BP’s core IT services and the design and implementation of all IT&S infrastructure on a global basis.

With a first degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Charlie joined Britoil in 1979 and his early career involved a series of technical and operational management roles. Britoil became part of the BP group in the mid-80s and after success in progressively more senior line management and business consulting roles he became CIO for BP Exploration in Alaska in 1996. He has since held a variety of roles reporting to the Group CIO including Chief Operating Officer Exploration & Production IT, Vice President Group IT Investment Projects, VP & COO Refining & Marketing IT. Before taking up his current post, Charlie was VP Global Infrastructure, where he led a major 3-year investment programme to update infrastructure technology, process and people capability, designed to accelerate BP’s transformation as a leading exploiter of digital technologies. Charlie became VP Global Operations and Infrastructure (GOI) on 1st April 2007, when GOI was formed as a new team to design, build and operate BP’s core IT services.

He has an MBA from Strathclyde University.

J. Clifford Gauntlett, Managing Partner, Solent Media Group
coming soon.

Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President of International Operations, Digital Realty Trust
Bernard has served as Senior Vice President, International since September 2008 and is the senior Digital Realty Trust officer responsible for the general management, driving activity and overseeing the growth of the international business. This includes the management and operations of Digital Realty Trust’s international portfolio. Bernard is a veteran of the IT industry with over 25 years experience in the sector. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Bernard was the CEO of Servecentric Ltd., a provider of Co-location and premium Managed Services to the Irish market. Before this Bernard has held senior Operations and IT roles at Worldport and Xerox Europe and held various IT Management and Software Development roles with Pioneer Investments, Informix Software Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation and Ashton-Tate.

Peter Hannaford, Vice President, Datacenters & Alliances EMEA/LAM, APC by Schneider Electric
coming soon.

Andrew Harrington, Partner, AHV Associates LLP
coming soon.

Marion Howard Healy, Associate Consultant, BroadGroup
Marion Howard-Healy is a senior consultant who has analysed market demand, change and business opportunities in the European communications sector since 1983. Marion has conducted single client assignments for leading operators and vendors in Europe, USA and Australia. She has designed and managed international research programmes and carried out in-depth interviews with senior IT and Business executives in over 400 organisations, as well SMEs in many sectors.With BroadGroup, Marion has undertaken a number of projects assessing such issues as demand for UK data centres, the rationale and implications of power based pricing, the need and impact of green data centres, dark fibre deployment in the UK, and local demand and connectivity in specific UK data centre locations. She has also recently spoken at several BroadGroup events, and is a very experienced and well regarded conference presenter. Prior to the formation of BroadGroup, Marion worked with several of the BroadGroup management team as Director, Billing & CRM at Tarifica – PBI UK Ltd.

Andrew Jay, Senior Director, CB Richard Ellis
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Apostolos Kakkos, CEO, Lamda Hellix Data Centers
Apostolos Kakkos is the Founder of LAMDA Hellix, the first and only certified Neutral World-Class Data Center Services Provider in Greece and South Eastern Europe, established in Athens from 2001.

Under his leadership and vision, LAMDA Hellix has grown over the past few years to become a major player in South Eastern Europe, as well as setting standards/benchmarks for the region in profitability, quality and the environment. Apostolos’ efforts culminated earlier this year in the recognition of LAMDA Hellix as Europe’s Best Regional Data Centre Operator for 2009. During his career both in Greece and abroad, Apostolos has held top management positions with listed companies within the IT, Telecom and Financial Services sectors. He holds a BSc in Physics from University of Athens, a MEng in IT from University College London, a MEng in Industrial Relations & Management from London School of Economics & Political Science and has participated in numerous executive seminars including London Business School’s “Financing the Entrepreneurial Business”.

Brian Klingbeil, Managing Director EMEA, Savvis
Brian Klingbeil is the Managing Director for EMEA at Savvis, a global leader in providing IT infrastructure services, including managed hosting and cloud computing, to businesses and the government in Europe, North America and Asia. In his role, Brian oversees the company's strategic business direction and is responsible for growing Savvis’ business throughout the region. Before taking this role, Brian was the Vice President of Finance and Strategic Planning for Savvis in the US for 5 years. With over 10 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, Brian was the Vice President of Finance of GTS Telecommunications in London prior to joining Savvis and has also held key finance and planning positions at Qwest Communications in Denver, Colorado. Brian studied engineering at Miami University and holds a BS degree in Finance from The Ohio State University. Brian has particular interest and expertise in enterprise Cloud Computing having spent considerable time advising many of Savvis’ mid-large European customers on their options to migrate to Cloud-based services.

Andreas König, Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA, NetApp Deutschland GmbH
Andreas König has been senior vice president and general manager EMEA of Network Appliance since October 2007. This position demonstrates the tremendous achievements and leadership qualities of a manager who started to establish NetApp’s business in Central Europe back in 1996 and started a successful career in a company that is a world leading storage vendor today. In December 1997 he headed NetApp’s Central European region as regional manager, was appointed director Central Europe in November 1998 and vice president EMEA Central five years later. With his promotion to vice president sales EMEA in August 2004, König became responsible for NetApp’s sales activities in EMEA, including Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Andreas König, an Austrian native, studied mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich and started into business as a technical consultant at MacNeal-Schwendler in Munich. After two years he joined Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he established the company’s sales activities in Austria. As head of SGI’s indirect sales in Germany he was also responsible for the partner marketing.

Andreas König lives with his family near Munich.

Chad Lamb PhD, Director of Engineering, XKL
As XKL’s Director of Engineering, Dr. Chad Lamb has managed the development of XKL's DarkStar™ product line, led by the flagship DXM Optical Transport. A 12 year veteran of XKL, Dr. Lamb has been involved in all phases of research, design, and development of the XKL portfolio of products.

Prior to XKL, Dr. Lamb has had diverse and significant roles in engineering, project leadership, and consulting for HP, GE, Polaroid, Allegro Microsystems, the University of New Hampshire, and Innovative Solutions International.

Dr. Lamb received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire, and his BS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.

Bernard Lecanu, President, BLIC Consultants
Bernard Lecanu began his professional career as a teacher after 5 years of which he joint AMP Group (now part of TYCO) where he continued for 15 years and became Division Director.

Between 1984 and 1993 he was Managing Director of different companies for the BICC Group mainly in south of Europe for components and cables activities.

He had his own company in the Information system business until 1995 and joint Siemens Group; he was appointed Managing Director for their French, Africa, South America and part of the Asia Market for OSP products.

From 2000-2002 he was Vice President International for an activity of Corning Group .In his capacity he was responsible for the Data Center market ,and launch with his team a number of Data center Projects in Europe and Middle east.

Since 2002, he is managing of consulting company BL International Consultant and specialises in the field of Access Network and Transmission, Marketing and Industrial Strategy.

He is member of

• the co-Hosting association (Vice President)
• The EC commission of Data centre code of conduct
• The French Marketing association
• The APIA

Bernard Lecanu holds an MBA, he is author of several papers, he writes a French book:
“ Diversifier ses canaux de ventes pourquoi et comment”

Bernard lecanu has spoken at various forum about the Data center European market, including United States and Singapore.

Mike Manos, Vice President, Service Operations, Nokia
Mike has a background of running large scale Operations and Technology organizations with a special focus on those going through incredible periods of growth. Prior to joining Nokia he was most recently Senior Vice President of Digital Realty Trust which runs and operates over 150 data centers world-wide for many companies including Savvis, Equinix and IBM. His responsibilities there included world-wide Operations, Research and Engineering, and Data Center Construction. It was an exciting role, but when the opportunity to come to Nokia presented itself, he could not pass it up.

Mike has also been responsible for the strategy and execution of building out Microsoft’s world-wide cloud infrastructure and operations platforms, eventually scaling Microsoft operations to handle tens of data centers, hundreds of megawatts of power, and hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide. Prior to Microsoft, Mike ran Online Operations for Walt Disney including companies like Walt Disney Parks and resorts, ESPN, ABC, all of the movie studios and more. The challenges across all three of these companies (Digital, Microsoft, Disney) were remarkably similar in the sense that they evolved and matured in many of the same ways as their infrastructure and operational responsibilities grew and scaled out over time.

Mike is an active industry blogger around ‘cloud computing’, operations, data centers, and scale infrastructure approaches. His personal technology blog (Loosebolts) is an area where he talks about our industry in general. Additionally you could probably classify Mike as a typical geek with a data center in his home where he plays with different technologies and platforms from Linux to Windows and storage arrays to Network attached Storage.

Catalina McGregor, United Nations Agency ITU-T Liaison Officer to OECD and EC/EU
Mrs McGregor was named by Computer Weekly as one of the most significant drivers of Green ICT in the western world. She is The United Nations Agency ITU T JCA Green ICT Liaison Officer to the OECD, EC and EU uniting efforts to promote and sustain International cooperation, best practice and standards. She works with a number of International climate change and environmental groups including Global Action Plan European Leaders in IT (ELIT), The US EPEAT Green Electronics Council and the UK WEEE Directive sub group for the re-use and resale of electronic goods among other interests.

She is best known in the UK as The Founder of the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer’s (CTO) Green ICT Delivery Unit (GDU) in Government. She holds this post from the Ministry of Defence where she has served three consecutive appointments CIOs Office, DCSA DFN and DE&S DSA. Prior to the MoD she was Director, Central Government Departments for a Department of Trade and Industry (BIS today) initiative called The National Aggregation Board (NAB). She has a comprehensive private sector IT background and was formerly Head of e-business and e-commerce for Richemont Luxury Group owners of a vast international investment portfolio.

Dr. Bruno Michel, Manager Advanced Thermal Packaging, IBM Research - Zurich
Bruno Michel has a Ph.D. degree in bio­chemistry/biophysics and joined the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 1988 to work on scanning probe microscopy and then managed a large interdisciplinary project on nanopatterning. In 2003 Dr. Michel started the Advanced Thermal Packaging group to create improved thermal interfaces and better miniatur­ized convective cooling for which he and his coworkers were awarded the Harvey Rosten Award for excellence in thermal sciences. Main current research topics of the Zurich group are microfluidics for nature inspired miniaturized tree-like hierarchical supply networks, 3D packaging, and thermophysics to improve heat transfer in nanostructures. With the high-performance coolers and the 3D stacked chips with interlayer cooling he contributes to improved efficiency and energy re-use in future green data centres.

Rocco Panetta, Partner Panetta & Associati, Rome and Member of the Italian Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Commission
Rocco Panetta, Attorney-at-Law, is founding and name Partner of Panetta & Associati, a law boutique operating in Rome in the field of Privacy and Data Protection, Telecoms and IT, Cloud Computing, Energy, Renewable and Environmental.

Rocco is member of the Italian Environmental Impact Assessment Commission and former Secretary General of the same. He is also former Head of Legal and previously Chief of Chairman’s Staff of the Italian Data Protection Authority and Italian Representative to the EU Commission (EC) and to the Council of Europe (COE) within the activities of the Art. 29 WP (EU Group of Data Protection Authorities).

In the private practice, he is former Senior Associate of Baker & McKenzie LLP’s Rome office.

Several years of academic experiences, gained both in Italian universities (“La Sapienza”, Rome and “RomaTre”, Rome) and abroad (Warvick University, SMU Dallas, LSE London).

Speaker and co-ordinator of various specialization courses, masters and conferences on Privacy and Data Protection, Energy and Environmental, Telecommunications, Information Technologies.

Author and co-author of publications, articles and books published by CEDAM, Padua; Jovene, Naples; La Tribuna, Piacenza; Sweet & Maxwell, London; Giappichelli, Turin; Giuffrè, Milan; Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan, UTET, Turin.

Rocco is currently member of the European Advisory Board of the IAPP and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Energy Law in Dallas.

Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director, Migration Solutions
Alex Rabbetts is Managing Director of Migration Solutions. The company is one of the only truly independent consultancies, providing specialist, expert, advice on all aspects of data centre and computer room design, build and, most importantly, operation. Well known in the industry, Alex has over 20 years of experience in the data centre business and has been involved in the design and the project management of over 1,000,000 square feet of data centre space across Europe. Uniquely, Alex has also operated a number of data centres and has a wealth of experience in the challenges that face companies in operating data centres and computer rooms after the project team have moved on.

Alex is also engaged by a number of organisations, governmental and commercial, in an advisory role on improvements that can be made to increase the efficiency of data centres and their infrastructure, and ultimately, to reduce their environmental impact.

Eric Schwartz, President, Equinix Europe
Eric Schwartz joined Equinix in 2006 and has played various senior-level management roles with the company. He spearheaded Equinix’s expansion to Europe – including the 2007 acquisition of IXEurope – and the ongoing integration of Equinix’s European operations into its global business. As President of Equinix Europe, Mr. Schwartz oversees the management, strategy, and growth for Equinix in Europe.

Mr. Schwartz came to Equinix from BellSouth where he was Vice President of IP Communications and led the development and implementation of advanced technologies including VoIP. Prior to joining BellSouth, he was Executive Vice President of Harold A. Dawson Company, an Atlanta-based real estate development company. Mr. Schwartz also is a former member of McKinsey & Co., where he consulted with telecommunications and financial services companies in the United States. and Asia on strategic issues.

Mr. Schwartz earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and was an undergraduate at Stanford University where he earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics.

Roy Shelton, Managing Director, H20 Networks
Roy, an MBA Graduate is a seasoned senior executive and is currently responsible for leading the rapidly expanding H2o Networks dark fibre telecommunications infrastructure business.

Roy has a wealth of experience in his field having previously held global positions in large telecommunications and technology companies. Prior to joining with H2o Networks (part of the i3 Group) Roy was Vice President of sales in EMEA for Azure Solutions (a BT Company), Vice President of global sales for Prime Carrier and CEO of Next2Friends.com.

Specialist skills include spin out, merger and acquisition skills on a National and International level. Roy is experienced in fund raising for early stage technology companies and adding significant shareholder value to pre-IPO and Venture Capital funded technology and telecommunications business.

Roy is a Member of the Institute of Directors, holds a Professional Certificate in Management, a Professional Diploma in Management, a Degree in Business Studies and an MBA.

When he’s not at work, Roy enjoys going to the gym, scuba diving, cooking and spending time with family and friends.

Constantinos Shiatis, Principal Banker, EBRD, Telecommunications, Media and Technology Team
coming soon.

Michael Tobin, CEO, TelecityGroup
coming soon.

Laurent Vernerey, President & CEO IT Business, Schneider Electric
coming soon.

Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup Consulting
Steve has extensive experience in market sizing, entry and strategy projects. With more than 19 years of experience as a technology analyst specialising in the worldwide telecommunications markets, he spent six years as a principal analyst at Gartner Group, tracking the voice, data and IP services markets for the carrier, vendor and financial communities. Steve's career is rooted firmly in analysis. He has worked at 451.com, and earlier at the Northern Business Information division of McGraw-Hill, where he managed the European research team. Prior to this, he was Research Manager of the Telematica programme owned by Logica. He has also worked for IDC in Australia and for IBM's marketing department. He is a regular speaker and moderator at international industry and vendor events and a commentator on telecom and IT issues for business television in the UK and Europe. Steve holds a degree in Business Administration from Bath University, UK.