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Mark Acton, Data Centre Optimisation EMEA Lead, Dell
Mark is currently providing solutions to Dell’s customers in EMEA concentrating on data centre issues relating to power, cooling and space capacities constraints, the introduction of best practices, directly addressing environmental issues and improving both efficiency and operating costs.
Prior to his current role at Dell, Mark has recently provided business and technology advisory services as well as thought leadership to mid and senior level executives in both Fortune 500 and public sector organisations in his role as a Data Centre Consultant for Intel® Solution Services.
With 20 years experience in the IT industry Mark has specialised in the field of Data Centre Operations for nearly 10 years, concentrating on the delivery of business critical services from highly reliable, world class 24x365 Data Centres. This has included consultancy and technical advice as well as senior management roles responsible for service delivery and both strategic and operational management within the data centre arena. |
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John Berendzen, AIA, LEED AP, Fox Architects
John Berendzen AIA, LEED AP is a partner at Fox Architects, St. Louis Missouri USA. John leads the firms sustainability/data center design practice group and consults on LEED certification for data centers. Fox completed the first LEED certified data center in the midwest for Monsanto and is currently completing work on Emerson’s LEED Gold data center. Their design of a ground source cooling data center was recognized by the American Institute of Architects with a design award for conceptual projects, 2008.
John is a graduate of Washington University, St. Louis (M.Arch 1987), past president of the St. Louis Chapter, AIA and a trustee of the Chapter’s Scholarship Fund. John is a board member of the Ville Marketplace, a sustainably designed market serving the historic Ville neighborhood by promoting healthy lifestyles, programs relating to nutrition and entrepreneurial opportunities to an underserved population. |
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Dr Ian F Bitterlin, Chief Technical Officer, Prism Power Ltd
Recognised in the industry as an expert mechanical and electrical Engineer he has produced a number of white paper data centre studies and is widely acknowledged as a leading figure at data centre conferences worldwide. With supporting sales and financial management experience at the highest level, a strong character and good communication skills Ian enjoys interfacing with people and he knows that good business solutions often rely on personal relationship. |
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Kate Craig-Wood, Managing Director, Memset Ltd
After completing her MSc is in Biomedical science, Kate joined Arthur Andersen business consulting as IT consultant. She went on to head business development for Easyspace Ltd and subsequently formed Memset Dedicated Hosting with her brother, Nick, in late 2002 with the UK's first main-stream virtual dedicated server product. Today, Memset is a leading managed hosting / utility computing provider.
Memset became Britain's first Carbon Neutral ISP in August 2006 and has won many awards for innovation, environmentalism and quality of service, including being voted best UK Web host 2006, 2007 & 2008 by PCPro magazine readers. Memset is debt free and growing fast, thanks to cost-driven IT outsourcing, and is among the Deloitte UK Tech Fast 50.
Since inception Memset has been a leader in the field of virtualisation, and openly shares their experiences and methodologies, including descriptions of their virtualisation platform. Kate has also started working with government including recently providing the OGC with full disclosure of their business costs and pricing strategies to assist with providing a basis for cost-comparison. Kate is also a leading British advocate of Cloud Computing and related technologies. |
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Rennie Dalrymple, Partner, Bruce Shaw Partnership
Rennie is a Partner at Bruce Shaw with a successful 16 year track record in the construction industry. He joined Bruce Shaw in
2004.
Rennie is responsible for overseeing the practices cost mangement activities, and in particular the technology work and is
currently involved in a broad range of schemes throughout the UK.
Previous to Bruce Shaw, Rennie sp[ent 5 years working for the Technology team within a large multi-disciplinary practice
completing data centre commissions on a range of projects throughout the UK and mainland Europe.
Rennie’s clients in the technology sector have included Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett Packard, Digiplex, Telia Soneria,
Integra (Genity), National Grid Transco and Atlas Defence Systems. |
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Rod Evans, Managing Director, SGI
Rod Evans is currently leading sales of SGI’s Data Center solutions to customers in Northern Europe. SGI® is focused on
helping customers solve their most demanding technology challenges by delivering: clustered computing and storage solutions,
high-performance computing and storage solutions, Eco-logical™ datacenter solutions, software and services.
Prior to his current role at SGI, Evans has also held the role of EMEA Client Director for Intel® Solution Services, where
he was responsible for the development of their data centre consultancy business across Europe. During his time with Intel,
Rod opened new sales operations in Benelux and France and grew revenues by 200 percent over a two year period. Prior to that,
he held several key sales positions within EMC Corporation over five years including EMEA sales director for Network Attached
Storage Products and global practice manager for Networked Storage Services.
With almost 25 years experience in selling and providing services to Data Centre environments, Rod has become recognised as
one of the leading technical sales managers in Europe and his experience has assisted many customers with making the most
effective data centre technology choices. In addition to SGI and Intel, Evans has held sales and management positions at
other leading data centre suppliers including Hitachi Data Systems, Amdahl Corporation and ICL. |
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Michalis Grigoratos, Senior Consultant, Halcrow Yolles
Michael is a Senior Consultant specialising in multi-disciplinary design of educational, Health and commercial buildings.
He has developed his experience working on a range of projects in UK, Middle East and Europe.
Since graduating Michael has amassed a broad range of experience both as a technical advisor, project manager and as a
professional engineering consultant.
As an experienced mechanical engineer, he has led the design on a number of new as well as retrofit data centres in U.K. As a
project manager, he has delivered multi-disciplinary projects which have enabled him to develop a broad understanding of
building design issues.
Michael is an expert in a range of analytical computer software tools. His core skill is the application of analysis tools
to optimise the performance of buildings. His specialist skills are in thermal, solar, energy, internal comfort and
daylight analysis. He has considerable experience in the total performance analysis of the building envelope.
He promotes passive engineering solutions in buildings and focuses on delivering projects with a holistic consideration to design.
He is an advocate of sustainable design and possesses a strong interest in the study of the built environment and its influence on the
perception of comfort. |
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Burton Hamner, President, Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company LLC
Burt Hamner is the founder and president of Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company LLC in Seattle, Washington. The company is developing
an offshore wind/wave energy demonstration project in Washington State and large utility scale ocean energy projects
in other states. He is also the founder and CEO of Hydrovolts, Inc. which has invented and is producing a new turbine
for irrigation canals and waterways. Before founding these companies Burt directed the largest tidal power study in the
USA. He recently served as the chairman of the Renewable Energy committee of the international Marine Technology
Society and as an advisor to the New Zealand Marine Renewable Energy Deployment Fund. Before entering the ocean
energy business he worked for 15 years on clean technology promotion in developing countries and was an MBA
program professor in the Philippines and in Peru. Burt has a degree in the History of Science and marine
biology from Harvard College and both a MBA and a Master of Marine Affairs degree from the University of Washington. |
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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. |
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Zahl Limbuwala, Director, Romonet
Over the past fifteen years, as chartered engineer and IT professional, Zahl brought to bear his strong technical understanding to manage large international teams in delivering and managing ICT services for FTSE100 and Fortune 250 clients. Zahl’s experience spans a number of disciplines including software development, telecommunications, ICT Services, and data centre operations.
Zahl is a frequent presenter and well-known figure within the data centre industry, speaking internationally at data centre and IT conferences. He is passionate about energy and cost efficiency and enabling businesses to see understand the true value of their IT services and data centres. |
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Mees Lodder, Director, Kyoto Cooling
Mees Lodder is one of the initiators of the development of KyotoCooling®.
In 2005 he started UpTime Technology in Holland, an only-Datacenter technical infrastructure consulting company. UpTime is currently consulting for top 500 Dutch companies. Activities vary from basic design , project management during built, audits in existing DC and incident mapping and problem solving unexpected incidents.
Since the start of UpTime, KyotoCooling® was step by step discovered and developed. During this process KPN, the major Dutch Telco, became interested and involved. This resulted in the built of a full size KyotoCooling® test facility in Amersfoort. Here is demonstrated at 6000 Watt/m2 and 100 kWatt in one cabinet how efficient KyotoCooling ® can cool IT hardware. Occurring PUE are in the range of 1,02 – 1,06. In the Dutch climate a year over PUE of < 1,10 was derived and reported.
In 2008 KyotoCooling International was formed to market KyotoCooling to the world. KyotoCooling is presented to the market as a total solution. KyotoCooling International will supply all necessary mechanical and electrical hardware with the full cooling process controller as well. All parts are fully tested at the test site. The KyotoCooling process is designed and tested to meet the highest standards in continuity.
KyotoCooling International BV owns all IP, patents and Know-How, regarding KyotoCooling®.
Mees(48) has had, after his Mechanical Engineering Degree(MSc) at Delft University, a colorful career, before “settling” in the DC infra structure world. In 2001 he acquainted with DC technical infrastructures and found his challenge in learning by doing, as interim Manager for DC’s at Getronics in Apeldoorn and Amsterdam. |
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Jim Smith, CTO, Digital Realty Trust
Jim Smith is CTO at Digital Realty Trust where he oversees data centre development, the company's efficiency & green strategy,
and power procurement & energy management. In the past four years, Jim and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more
than 300MW of UPS capacity on over 60 datacentre projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry's
first LEED Gold certified data centre and the UK’s first BREEAM certified Excellent datacentre. Jim has a BSc in Chemistry from
Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008. |
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Greg Mason, Data Centre Specialist, Atlantis Resources Corporation
Greg is developing the Data Centre proposition for Atlantis Resources Corporation, a tidal energy technology and
project company. Atlantis has been in business for over 10 years and over that time has developed and tested at
commercial scale the world’s most efficient tidal turbines. The current focus is the development of a large
scale tidal array to be deployed off of the North Coast of Scotland in an area of seabed known as the Pentland Firth.
This area contains one of the best tidal resources in the world.
Atlantis’ Data Centre Project (Project Blue) is designed to create a large electrical load for the tidal turbines.
The power transmission grid is very constrained in that part of Scotland and it will be many years before it can be
fully upgraded. Project Blue allows the tidal power to be exploited much earlier than would have otherwise been
possible. The data centre has the benefits of both a unique source of energy and a cool climate which will reduce
energy usage.
Before joining Atlantis, Greg spent 17 years at the investment bank Morgan Stanley in a variety of technology related
roles. Most recently as the Executive Director responsible for their Data Centre strategy and the development of
an award winning Tier 4 facility. Greg holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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Catalina McGregor, Founder and UK GOV Deputy Champion Green ICT CIO/CTO Council, Office of HM Government CIO
Mrs McGregor has been named 'one of the most significant drivers of Green ICT in the western world'. She is Founder,
former Chair and currently Government Deputy Champion of the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) and Chief Technology
Officer’s (CTO) Council Green ICT Delivery Unit (GDU) of the Cabinet Office. It is this Unit that published the UK's
Greening Government ICT Strategy and is today delivering pan-government CIO Green iCT Roadmaps for sustainable ICT.
She is also Co-Chair of the SOCITM Local Government Green ICT working group where Green iCT best practice and KPI's
are reviewed and developed.
Mrs. McGregor serves Internationally as Liaison Officer to The United Nations ITU Focus Group for ICT and
Climate Change to the OECD and European Commission as well as the US Government EPEAT Standards Body. She also works
with a number of International climate change and environmental groups including Global Action Plan European Leaders
in IT (ELIT) and the UK WEEE Directive sub group for the re-use and resale of electronic goods.
Prior to the Cabinet Office she served two consecutive appointments to the UK Ministry of Defence: DFN and DE&S DSA where
she was Chief Whitehall Advisor. Prior to the MoD she was Director, Central Government Departments for the Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) 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 holding a significant financial portfolio of International
ICT e-business investments and interests. |
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Donal Mac Nioclais, Commercial Development, Aquamarine Power Ltd
Donal joined leading wave energy technology developer Aquamarine Power in May 2009. He is responsible for developing the company’s market strategy and delivering successful commercial relationships with key partners in the energy and technology sectors. Before joining Aquamarine, Donal held management and technology consulting positions with McKinsey & Company and Accenture, where he worked on a range of projects including data centre strategy and cost optimisation. He holds B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Dublin City University, a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from Telecom & Management SudParis and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. |
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Joe Polastre, Chief Technology Officer, Sentilla Corporation
Mr Polastre is co-founder and chief technology officer at Sentilla. Joe is responsible for defining and implementing the
company’s global technology and product strategy. Winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40
award and named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs, Joe often speaks about energy management and the role of
physical computing -- where information from the physical world is used to make energy efficiency decisions. 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. |
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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. |
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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 thecarrier, 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. |
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Roy Zeighami, Principal Cooling/Energy Architect, Business Critical Systems Division, Hewlett Packard
Energy, electrical or thermal, its availability, delivery, conditioning, and removal, are fast becoming a fundamental challenge to
business technology around the world. As Principal Cooling/Energy Architect for HP's Business Critical Systems division, Roy Zeighami
shapes energy technology and policy for HP's mission critical customers around the world. Roy's work involves coordination across
internal HP's business units and across the wide range of external energy technology and business and government partners.
His mission is to develop and steer a coherent energy delivery and removal architecture that offers real business returns to
customers while preserving common resources. Roy holds over fifteen patents in the area of server power and cooling.
He holds MS Degrees in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. |
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Pip O Squire, MSc, DIC, BA (Hons) Oxon, CGeol, FGS Engineering and Projects Director, Ark Continuity
Pip is the Engineering Director of Ark Continuity Limited, a leading provider of high integrity data centres.
Through mission critical engineering and operational excellence Ark designs, builds and operates infrastructures that
deliver highly secure, available and sustainable solutions to support critical IT and communication processes. Ark is
developing one of Europe's premier data centre campuses at Spring Park in Wiltshire, England.
He is an Engineering Geologist with over 25 years of engineering and construction management experience in a wide range
of renewable energy, power, dam, transport and mining projects from inception through the design, construction, due
diligence and performance enhancement.
Prior to joining Ark, Pip was Divisional Director with Black & Veatch for eight years, where he was responsible for
introducing sustainability into the delivery and operation of all projects, while also leading the renewable energy
and airport engineering business streams. He was Project Director on a number of major critical infrastructure
projects including water engineering and drainage at both Heathrow and Stansted airports. He was also Project
Manager for the Al Khafji Power Plant Project in Saudi Arabia. This 62m project involved managing the design,
procurement and construction teams in the UK, India, USA and Saudi Arabia to deliver the 90MW power project on
time and on budget. He also started his business relationship with Ark in 2000, when the company was involved in
early development plans for the Ark Underground.
Before joining Black & Veatch Pip worked for Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners from 1983 on a wide range of major
infrastructure projects including Nuclear Waste Disposal projects for Nirex, technical review of the Large Hadron
Collidor cavern in Switzerland, Hydro Electric projects in Spain and Norway, a four year assignment to Sri Lanka on
the Samanalawewa Hydroelectric project and as lead geotechnical engineer on the Karameh dam project in Jordan.
Mining experience was gained with Anglo American in South Africa in the gold and diamond sectors.
Pip holds a degree in Geology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Engineering Geology from Imperial College, London. |
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Roland Broch, project director DCSA, eco - Association of the German Internet Industry
Roland joined eco - the leading German Internet Business Association in December 2008.
He is responsible for Datacenter Star Audit (DCSA), an eco Service that provides an objective evaluation of the
infrastructure and services provided by Data Centres. Furthermore Roland is organising serveral eco Working Groups and
monitoring surveys and studies initiated by eco.
Before joining eco, he spent 10 years working as a consultant for pre-press technology and IT in printing industry.
Roland holds a degree in Printing Technology from Wuppertal University, Germany. |
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Maurice Julian, Data Centre Manager, HP (EDS) Wynyard
Maurice Julian joined EDS Real Estate in 2003 to manage the refurbishment, upgrade and maintenance contract for the existing
mission critical facilities and the design and delivery of the next generation Data Centres in the UK in line with the EDS
Global Strategy of Mega Data Centres as developed by their service partner EYP. He now works within the HP Enterprise Services
Group supporting Data Centre Operations.
Over the last 7 years he has managed the roll out of a number of EDS Data Centres and major upgrades including Wynyard,
Doxford phases I and II, Washington, Mitcheldean, Stockley Park and a number of customer facilities.
Maurice Julian has 20 years experience in the field of Construction and Project Management and has been fortunate to work
on a number of flagship major projects. Immediately prior to joining EDS, he worked for a collocation provider building
Data Centres in London, Paris, Milan, Madrid and Prague.
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Bernard Lecanu, Member of European Commission Green IT Group
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. |
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Tony Day, Global Director Data Center Projects & Professional Services, APC by Schneider Electric
A Chartered Architect and mechanical engineer with wide design and management experience in both
engineering and construction industries. With an initial background in research and development
for a large multi-national engineering manufacture. This was followed by experience within
production engineering and plant management. Product development experience includes electronic
control systems within the aerospace industry; telecommunications in the field of digital telephone
exchanges; and prefabricated plant and accommodation modules for the petrochemical industry. Within the
construction industry he has worked in both professional private practice and within commercial construction
organisations at senior management level with particular attention to highly serviced building environments
As Technical Director of a datacentre design and build firm was responsible for the planning and design of over
5 million square feet of data centre facilities including major sites in London, Cambridge, Paris and Amsterdam.
In addition as Managing Director of a specialist subsidiary tecnikon, develop prefabricated and preassembled data centres.
Designer of the tecnikon patented first industry autonomous rack cabinet system (datacentre in a cabinet) which received
a UK Government DTI SMART Award for technical innovation in March 2003. Joined APC in May 2003 following APC’s
acquisition of tecnikon as Chief Engineer Rack Cooling Solutions in Data Centre solution applications for both
cooling and all other aspects of the total data centre infrastructure.
Represented APC on the management committee of the EcoDC initiative a consortium of 11 industry companies that came
together to design and build an ecological datacentre. Also represented APC on the EU Code of Conduct: Energy Efficiency
for Data Centres committee meetings and is an active member of a number of The Green Grid technical work groups.
Since the acquisition of APC by Schneider Electric is currently responsible for datacentre architecture. A regular
presenter at industry events on data centre design, energy efficiency, ecological and sustainable design. |
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