SPEAKERS

Alan Beresford, MD, EcoCooling
Alan Beresford is Managing Director of EcoCooling Limited. This UK based company designs and distributes modular evaporative coolers throughout Europe. Alan is a professional Mechanical engineer who has held senior engineering and operational positions within several UK blue chip companies including the food, print and FMCG sectors. In 2002 he started to specialise exclusively in evaporative cooling and became the largest installer of evaporative coolers in the UK. In 2004 Alan designed the EcoCooler to meet the safety, control and performance requirements of the European market. He is acknowledged as developing new and novel applications for evaporative cooling together with creating the supporting design and performance tools for use by engineers and installers Alan is also credited with developing evaporative cooler control systems to meet the most exacting standards of legionella control. Alan currently sits on the CIBSE steering committee for the design of data centre Cooling.

Thom Brouillard, Chief Technology Officer, Datacentience
Chief Technology Officer Thom Brouillard has been involved in the design and engineering of precision cooling systems for nearly three decades. He is an engineer of considerable experience and standing who has the respect of both the manufacturing community and data centre owners and operators. Initially with Liebert in the United States, Thom moved to Europe after the company was acquired by Emerson in 1987. In 2001, Thom joined the EMEA management team of American Power Conversion, with responsibility for Network Air Cooling Solutions. In 2007, Thom assumed the role of CTO for Datacentience. During his career at APC, Thom played a critical role in successfully establishing the company as a world leader in integrated infrastructure solutions for on-demand data centres. He has also been involved with the provision of solutions for future-state cooling issues through innovative products and scalable designs. Bringing his expert knowledge and experience in high density data centre cooling designs to Datacentience, Thom is uniquely positioned to recommend balanced and innovative design solutions to meet business needs. He is currently focusing his attention on the challenges of creating data centres in small spaces. Thom is also developing innovative product solutions that address the growing concern over increasing power and heat densities of IT equipment. He is committed to reducing the energy consumed by data centres and understands that the manner in which data centres are realised must change.

Kevin Burton, MIET, Director, Parthenon Data Centres BV
Kevin has worked as a consultant working for various companies providing management expertise on electrical engineering, ICT, data and telecoms projects. Projects included News International, Wapping, London, Midland Bank Head Office London, Nomura Bank London, Landmark Hotel London and Anglian Water plc. He founded LMG Projects, and became Managing Director, expanding the business to 3 locations within the UK. The company’s primary expertise is electrical engineering, this was expanded to fibre optic installations and engineering, civil engineering, consultancy and installations, primarily in strategic alliances with Thales, Fujitsu, Global Crossing and Flag, within the data centre and telecoms sector, Network Rail, Metronet, Tube Lines in Transportation. In 2008, Kevin left LMG, to launch Parthenon ‘Symbiotic’ Data Centres. Kevin had the ideology of a new breed of efficient, sustainable data center, employing natural resources and a large scale heat re-use scheme. Kevin is a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET), and a Member of The Engineering Council in the United Kingdom, both of which for 20 years, and now sits as a committee member in the Benelux.

Steve Campbell-Ferguson, Associate Director, Arup
Steve is an outstanding Chartered Mechanical Engineer within Arup’s International Mission Critical team. He manages large Data Centre projects across multiple European locations currently from Arup’s Solihull, UK Office. In the past Steve worked for 4 years in Arup’s Moscow Office as Commercial Projects Business Area Manager and M&E Team leader. Working throughout Europe and Russia has given Steve a valuable combination of both local knowledge and international project management experience. The management of large design teams, located in multiple locations and liaison with multiple client, contractor and third party stakeholders is all part of his role. Steve has a proven track record of successfully taking designs from the drawing board and making them reality. “Steve will be operating In the Data Centre Surgery on Day 2.”

David Crisp, Business Development, Data Centres, blue-ng
David is an experienced technology CEO and serial entrepreneur. After a 10 year career in Oil & Gas with Schlumberger he founded the mobile communications software company, Eden Group; a successful exit gave a ten times return for investors. After a brief spell as entrepreneur-in-residence for a Silicon Valley VC firm, he became CEO of Neopost Online Inc. a $100M funded ecommerce start-up, providing online postage, package and shipping services, in 18 months, he grew revenues to $24m, the customer base to 17,000 and established shipping counters in 2,500 supermarkets across the USA. After a two year sabbatical sailing across the Atlantic with his family David resettled in the UK and joined wave energy device developer Orecon Ltd as CEO. At Orecon he closed a £12m A round funding with tier one VCs, successfully led the company to become one of the industry leading developers until the world banking crisis left the company unfunded. David is currently working for 2OC developing its CHiP with co-located data centre strategy.

Rien Dijkstra, Independent Consultant & Director, Infrarati
Rien is an innovative technology professional with over 20 years of combined experience delivering results in various IT positions in different governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has been acting as senior advisor of the CIO of Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) and is co-creator of the 2010 IT vision of Dutch Railways. He has a broad and longstanding experience in IT (services) in different roles and functions. The first years of his career he was mainly involved in software development. Later on his focus shifted to consultancy where he spent his attention to a lot of different IT subjects. The past years he focused on developing and giving guidance to IT enterprise strategies. He was a former member of the CIO Office of Dutch Railways where he was working as an Enterprise Architect. In that role he was responsible for a digital movement of one of the data centers of Dutch Railways by using virtualization technology and resulting in a 80% server reduction. He is currently working as a independent consultant.

Stephane Duproz, Directeur Général, TelecityGroup France S.A.
Stephane Duproz joined the company in January 2002 and is responsible for the management and co-ordination of the company’s local operations. Stéphane’s key objective is to expand the company reputation and prominence in the French market. After graduating in 1986 from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Institute of Political Sciences), Stephane Duproz began his career in a variety of advisory posts in business strategy, marketing, communications, etc. In 1996, he joined CalvaCom, the French pioneer in internet access and web development, as Sales Manager. Subsequent to the 1997 acquisition of CalvaCom by PSINet - a global Internet Services Provider - Stephane was appointed Sales and Marketing Director France. In 1988 he was promoted to Managing Director France and, in 1999, he became European Director of Mergers, Acquisitions and Integrations. In 2001, he left PSINet to join Dedigate, a company specialized in dedicated, managed hosting, as Vice-President Europe for Sales and Marketing.

James Farley, Solar Energy Adviser, Solon
coming soon.

Chunlei Guo, Associate Professor, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA
Chunlei Guo is an Associate Professor in The Institute of Optics at University of Rochester in New York, USA. His research focuses on engineering advanced materials properties using high-intensity ultrafast laser pulses. His research led to the inventions of the so-called Black and Colored Metals, which may find a broad range of applications in light absorption and emission, electronics cooling, and energy harnessing. The outcomes of his research have attracted extensive attentions ranging from highlights in top scientific journal such as Nature and Science to media reports such as in The New York Times and MSNBC. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal of Optics Express and was the past Chair of Short-Wavelength and High-Field Physics in the Optical Society of America.

Stuart Hall, Data Centre Simulation Specialist, Arup
Stuart is a specialised Mechanical Engineer with a unique 11 years experience in the simulation of buildings using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In 2003 he began to specialise in the application of these skills to Data Centres, co-authoring a BSRIA guidance publication: “Cooling Solutions for IT - A guide to planning, design and operation”. Stuart joined Arup in 2008 having worked previously for a market leading Data Centre engineering software company. Stuart is developing the use of state-of-the-art simulation techniques for data centres within Arup. He is determined to ensure that Arup’s International Data Centre team remain at the cutting edge of Data Centre Design. Stuart is committed to improving the efficiency of Data Centres both old and new. “Stuart will be operating In the Data Centre Surgery on Day 2.”

Andrew Harrison, Director & Group Leader, Arup
Andrew Harrison holds global responsibility for the Science and Industry business sector and Financial Services/Mission Critical business sectors across Arup. He leads a technology focussed multidisciplinary group in London. With Andrew’s leadership the International Mission Critical team (a worldwide group of Arup professionals dedicated to Data Centre projects) is well coordinated demonstrating a track record of delivering high specification Data Centre projects on time and on budget. Andrew is an extremely experienced mechanical engineer and has a been responsible for the design and project management of data centre, financial services, science, industrial and transportation projects in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East throughout his 22 years of service at Arup. “Andrew is on the judging panel for the Data Centre Europe Awards and will be hosting the Data Centre Surgery on Day 2”

Jeremy Hartley, CEO, eCool Solutions
Jeremy Hartley is founder and Managing Director of Dataracks and its sister company eCool Solutions. Between them the two companies provide the burgeoning datacentre market with highly engineered server racks and structural solutions which reduce energy usage and increase efficiency. A qualified mechanical engineer with over 30 years in the datacentre industry, Jeremy’s success lies in seeing elegant and simple solutions to major industry problems. Dataracks was established in 1990 after market research revealed a need within the computer network industry for a specialist 19” rack cabinet. Jeremy prototyped various designs which he tested with end users and customer feedback has driven product development ever since. Dataracks has since become a leading manufacturer of 19-inch server racks and its innovative products – ranging from blanking panels and tile grommets through cabinets to complete cold aisles – can be retrofitted into a live environment. All its products are designed and manufactured in its UK factory and the latest products are designed to achieve the highest value ratings according to the latest EU guidelines on data centre efficiency. Over recent years Jeremy has become increasingly concerned about the escalating energy costs experienced by datacentre managers and was convinced that innovative design could solve the problem. He has developed a system of cold aisle containment and airflow management that can improve cooling efficiency and reduce energy consumption. To provide advice on Best Practice, he established Cool Solutions to provide consultancy on improved air flow management control in datacentres. Its clients have benefited from significant energy savings (at least 15%) and cuts in carbon emissions, as well as reducing server failures and downtime. Dataracks and eCool Solutions were among the first to become endorsers of the EU Code of Practice on Datacentre Efficiency. eCool’s recommendations and Dataracks’ equipment have helped many of the world’s leading datacentres to increase their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions in line with government legislation. The companies are involved in several pan-European roll-out programmes. Jeremy is committed to energy conservation and continues to create innovative products for the datacentre industry. He looks forward to meeting like-minded individuals at Power & Cooling later this year.

Tony Harvey, Cisco
coming soon.

Mike Hastings, Associate Electrical Engineer & Accredited Tier Designer, Arup
As true expert in Data Centre Electrical Engineering Mike Hastings has over 20 years of experience with mission critical data centres, switch sites, and bank trading activities. Mike specialises in the design of high voltage and low voltage fault tolerant distribution systems. He is frequently involved with trouble shooting for mission critical facilities where the confidentiality of the client must be respected. As an Accredited Uptime Institute Tier Designer, Mike provides specialist technical input to Arup’s Data Centre projects. His projects, scattered throughout the UK, Europe, Middle East and ROW, have earned him great respect throughout the industry. “Mike will be operating In the Data Centre Surgery on Day 2.”

Marion Howard Healy, Senior Associate, BroadGroup
coming soon.

Eirikur Sveinn Hrafnsson, CEO and Founder, Greenqloud
Eirikur Hrafnsson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Greenqloud. A seasoned entrepreneur with 16 years experience in software development and management at the age of 32. He started his first company, Idega Software now Idega Open Source (idega.org), in the year 2000 and worked for 9 years as its Chief Software Engineer and lead an international team of developers and consultants. During that time he also studied classical music and jazz and has worked as professional singer both at the National Opera in Iceland and at the Reykjavik City Theater. He's very passionate about how technology can help battle global warming and loves being on the cutting edge. Eirikur is a board member of Clean Tech Iceland and lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, with his fiance, a boat captain and a classical singer, and their two young children.

Dr Uli Jakob, Vice President, Green Chiller Verband für Sorptionskälte e.V.
Dr Uli Jakob is the Vice President of the Green Chiller Association for Sorption Cooling e.V. in Berlin, Germany. Besides, he is General Manager of Solem Consulting in Europe, an international consultancy in the field of solar cooling, thermal cooling, large-scale solar thermal applications, solar thermal process heat, CSP and tri-generation. He has over ten years of professional experience with solar thermal and solar cooling systems, especially with the product development and commercialisation of solar/ thermal cooling kits. In his career, he has been working as director for SolarNext AG, Rimsting, Germany and as general manager at Forschungszentrum Nachhaltige Energietechnik, Stuttgart, Germany (zafh.net). Dr. Jakob received his PhD from the De Montfort University Leicester, U.K. and he has a degree in Building Physics from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, Germany.

Shri Karve, Director of Business Development, APC
Before joining APC by Schneider Electric (MGE UPS Systems) in 1992, Shri held sales management positions with number of dynamic & static UPS manufacturers. With BSc in Electrical Engineering, his career path developed from design engineering, where he spent eight years designing rotating machines, motors and alternators. Considered today as one of the leading authorities on UPS and Active Harmonic conditioners. Shri has presented several papers on UPSs at international conferences and frequently spoken at Power Quality seminars addressing various solutions for new Blade Servers and Harmonic management with the use of Active Harmonic Filters. Shri is also a recommended IET(IEE) speaker.

Sindre H. Kvalheim, CEO, LocalHost AS
Sindre H. Kvalheim is CEO and one of the founders of LocalHost AS. Mr. Kvalheim has a broad technical background as a system engineer and programmer. He has 7 years of experience as head of development and started LocalHost in 2007. Mr. Kvalheim has for the last years been a central part of the green it community in Norway and his company LocalHost AS was in 2007 the greenest datacenters in Norway. Present board membership: VideoNor AS

Greg McCulloch, UK Managing Director, Interxion
Greg has 17 years Project and Executive Management experience in Sales, Business Development, Data Centre design and delivery, and has held a number of Executive Management and advisory roles within the telco and data centre sector. In the last 2 years alone Greg has been involved in the due-diligence, design, build, sales and management for approx 260,000 sq ft of Data Centre space across the UK.

Joe Polastre, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Sentilla Corporation
Joe Polastre is co-founder and chief technology officer at Sentilla, provider of enterprise management solutions for managing energy in the data center. Winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 award and named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. Before joining Sentilla, Joe held software development and product manager positions with IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. Joe is active in numerous organizations, including The Green Grid, US Green Building Council, ACM, and IEEE. Joe holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Michael Pomerance, Managing Director, CoolSaver
Michael Pomerance is the Managing Director of CoolSaver Limited, a UK based company which provides “green” multi-application moisture filters from Sweden that use exclusive nano technology to increase the efficiency and the effectiveness of cooling systems. Michael’s technical background is in data and communication networks architecture, the Internet, systems integration and software development. As an architect he has designed corporate networks and tradinsg floors integrated with data and communication systems for several global financial services organisations. As a management consultant he has advised many global organisations on the impact of emerging technologies on their business and markets. As a business leader, he has managed UK and EMEA groups with revenues of $100 million and 250+ staff He is a business innovator who specialises in bringing new products, solutions and services to market. At CoolSaver he is looking at new innovations for increasing cooling efficiency and reducing energy use and waste in markets that operate significant cooling environments. Michael has held senior positions in a number of global organisations including Head of Solutions Development (EMEA) for Motorola, Managing Principal / Partner (Northern Region) IBM Global Services and Associate Director CSC (EMEA) e-Business.

Nick Razey, Chief Executive Officer, Nextgendata
Nick Razey has over 25 years experience in the communications industry. He started his career at Cable & Wireless as an engineer working on underwater fibre optic cables. He subsequently moved into Project Management and Business Development focused on the ex Soviet Union markets. In 1995 he co-founded the international telecommunications company, Interoute Telecommunications, which he grew to a turnover of more than £200m. In 2000 he moved to Brazil where he became involved in property development, ultimately building a luxury hotel which recently received a World Travel Award as the best boutique hotel in South America. On returning to the UK in 2003 he moved back into the technology world with a Voice Over IP company, Saiph Communications. For the last 3 years Nick has been focused on Next Generation Data which is developing one of Europe’s largest Data Centres in South Wales.

Matti Roto, Director, Academica Oy
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Michael Rowan, Chief Technology Officer & Co -Founder, Viridity Software
Michael Rowan is a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a strong vision for customer-centric product innovations. Prior to co-founding Viridity Software, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP as well as being the author of over a dozen CDP-related patents. Michael was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), the developer of the first enterprise class CDP solution for the market. Prior to Revivio, Michael was the founder and CTO of StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software), also a CDP product company. Michael was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, including HACMP (clustering), HAGEO (geographic clustering), HA-DR (storage replication), and the Concurrent Logical Volume Manager (CLVM). At CLAM, Michael was the technical visionary and product architect for all new product development. CLAM was eventually acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation.

Stefan Sadokierski. Associate Mechanical Engineer & Accredited Tier Designer, Arup
Stefan Sadokierski is a brilliant mechanical engineer with over 9 years of professional experience. He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and an Accredited Uptime Institute Tier Designer. Stefan has designed and delivered building services and industrial engineering projects in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, America and Australia. He currently leads a team of mechanical engineers focused on data centre, mission critical and financial services based projects. In addition to design consultancy work, Stefan also provides focused consultancy services relating to sustainability and mission critical systems design for clients around the world. “Stefan will be operating In the Data Centre Surgery on Day 2.”

Harkeeret Singh, Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology, Thomson Reuters
Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh is Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology at Thomson Reuters. He is seen as the Energy 'Czar' and one of the main enablers of a greener and more sustainable future for the company. In his role Harqs is responsible for energy efficiency and sustainability across the Markets division, including Data Centres, Servers, Storage, Network and Desktop. Harqs has been working within the industry specifically looking at data centers and IT in both Europe and the US for some time, particularly in the pursuit of advancing energy efficiency principles and working across traditional boundaries to achieve ’holistic’ efficiency. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in August 2009 he held a variety of roles at BT, including Head of Data Centre Strategy. At Thomson Reuters Harqs is responsible for industry engagement around energy efficiency, liaising with The Green Grid (serving as Vice Chair for EMEA alongside sitting on the Advisory Council), ASHRAE, the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and the US EPA/DoE energy efficiency initiatives and many other fora across the industry. He is also a lead representative for Global Climate Change Policies - UK CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, APA (American Power Act) and others across the world. Harqs holds a BSc in Computer Science and Business Management from the University of Birmingham and awards which include a Strategy Award from Accenture.

Vic Smith, Director, Data Centre Technology, Dell Inc
With 25+ years experience in the computer industry, Vic Smith is a Director of Data Centre Technology with the Strategic Technology Group at Dell Inc. EMEA headquarters based in the UK. Dell Technologists provide industry & technical knowledge, best practices, guidance and pre-sales support throughout EMEA. With Dell since 1997, Vic is responsible for strategy relating to Datacentre matters including Energy Efficiency & Sustainability solutions (Green IT), Virtualization and Management Solutions for EMEA. Additionally Vic Smith is Chairman of the EMEA Technical Group at The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. The Green Grid's scope includes collaboration with end users and government organisations worldwide to ensure that each organisational goal is aligned with both developers and users of data center technology. Vic has worked closely with the EU in the creation of the code of Conduct for Data Centre Efficiency and with various country/EMEA-wide groups for Data Centre energy efficiency and legislation. Vic has been in the ICT industry for many years and is a Fellow of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

Matthew T. Starr, Chief Technology Officer, Spectra Logic Corporation
Matt Starr's tenure with Spectra Logic spans 19 years and includes experience in service, hardware design, software development, marketing and management. Starr graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colo., USA with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience with software, hardware, operating systems and electronic design and is currently responsible for library engineering. As the first person named to the CTO position at Spectra Logic, he brings to the company a well rounded view of architecture, operations and emerging technology.

Dr Bob Sullivan, Independent Consultant
Dr. Sullivan, commonly known as "Dr Bob" in the industry, retired in 2000 after a 32 year carrier with IBM’s Storage Systems Division in San Jose, CA. Since then he has been an independent consultant in the Data Processing industry, concentration on high density cooling and energy efficient data center infrastructures. Prior to joining IBM, Bob received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MS and PhD in Applied Mechanics from Stanford University. In his 32 year carrier at IBM he did technology, component and new product development work, installation planning and consulting work in computer room environment and hardware installation issues. In his IBM career he worked on the team that developed the Winchester disk technology, he created the Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle equipment layout concept, plus identified the need to have all air flowing in one direction in the computer room. These are critical concepts that are now generally accepted and employed throughout the data processing industry. Dr. Bob is a recognized expert in the areas of computer room environments, hardware installation, computer room layout, power and power distribution, grounding, cooling and air flow plus contamination identification and remediation.

Adam Tamburini, UK Country Manager, e-shelter (UK) Limited
Adam graduated from Kingston University in 1996 with a 1st in Quantity Surveying, then joining AYH plc, a Property and Construction Consultant. Working on corporate fit out and refurbishment until 1999, Adam began specialising in datacentres and telecommunication facilities with the development of the .com boom; working on multiple Telco projects across mainland Europe. Post .com boom, Adam worked with various corporate clients on their datacentre requirements. This work included initial strategic advice, master planning, budgeting, option appraisal, site selection, procurement and on-site implementation. Adam moved to the development side of the datacentre industry in 2005, working on the delivery of datacentres to companies who wish to avoid the Capital spend of building their own facility. He is now the UK Country Manager for e-shelter at their landmark Saunderton Datacentre in High Wycombe, and is also involved in their international development. Adam has been involved on over 1,000,000ft² of datacentres and worked with clients including JPMorgan Chase, COLT Telecom, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, IBM, Unisys, ITNet and MCI WorldCom.

Mike Turff, Global Data Centre Manager, PGS
Mike Turff is the Global Service Delivery Manager for Petroleum Geo-Services, a leading oil exploration company with High Performance Compute (HPC) datacentres across the world. Mike has spent over 30 years installing and managing datacentres in countries as diverse as Kazakhstan and Nigeria. His new datacentre in Weybridge, UK has won several awards for its innovative design and is recognised as one of the most efficient in Europe.

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.

Dr. Rainer Weidmann, Senior Data Center Architect & Consultant, Computing Services & Solutions, GDU Infrastructure and Availability Services (IAS), T-Systems International GmbH
After my studies of physics I’ve been in research and education at university for 4 years before I started working for debis Systemhaus GmbH in1996. debis was the worldwide IT supplier for the Daimler-Benz Group and had approximately 30,000 employees around the world. In 2001 debis was integrated to the IT department of German Telekom, now called T-Systems. At debis I started as a systems specialist for digital-OpenVMS and Cisco Networks, later on I migrated to a hard- and software specialist for Sun Solaris, and became the responsible technical Projectmanager for the IRIDIUM Europe project. In1999 I moved back to the roots and took over the reposibility for the datacenter infrastructure (power, aircon, security, Networking, ...) for serveral datacenters in Germany. During this period I built, renewed and aquired some new datacenter. In 2007 I took over the resonsibility for the department of Engineering Infrastucture and responsible for DC-design and technical DC-standards and “greenIT”. My actual position is “Senior Datacenter Architect & Consultant” and I’m responsible for the “Datercenter 2020” –Project.

Simon Wheeldon, CEO, CloudApps
Simon is the Chief Executive Office and co-founder of CloudApps. Prior to founding CloudApps, Simon spent 4 years at Salesforce.com leading the adoption of the pioneering Force.com platform across EMEA. Under Simon’s guidance the Force.com platform in Europe grew to be a multi-million dollar business.With over 20 years experience in the software industry, Simon was responsible for the widespread sales and adoption of the Force.com platform, allowing Salesforce.com’s more than 67,000 customers and 1.5 million subscribers to build their very own Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Prior to joining Salesforce.com Simon was responsible for the financial services business at Siebel Systems in the UK. Previously, he has held senior positions at BusinessObjects and Accenture. Simon has a BSc in Computer Science from Bristol University. He is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire, UK.

Roy Zeighami, UCS Power and Cooling TME, CISCO
Roy Zeighami is a power and cooling architect with Cisco. His responsibilities include driving energy efficiency efforts on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) server platforms. Roy has over ten years of experience working on thermal design and architecture for electronics. He holds MS degrees in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and has over 20 patents in thermal design and power architecture for computing systems.