Symposium 2010 Speakers

The Uptime Institute Symposium is known for inviting next-generation speakers -- visionaries who break the rules and redefine the game. This year we expand our offerings to include an even broader range of strategists, analysts, global thinkers, and innovators -- leaders who will inspire you and your organization to the next level.

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	John Abbott is Co-Founder and Chief Analyst at The 451 Group, where he covers systems, storage and software infrastructure. For more than 25 years he has pioneered specialist technology coverage in such areas as Unix, supercomputing, system architecture, software development and storage. He has written many Special Reports, including those on storage virtualization and blade servers - the first comprehensive surveys of either subject to be published. Mr Abbott began writing about technology in 1984, contributing to publications including Computing, Computer Weekly, The Financial Times and The Times. He went on to edit ComputerWire's weekly Unix newsletter, Unigram.X, and its daily Computergram International service.
	Shahriar (Shar) Allen is the Vice President, Managed Network Systems with responsibility for hardware / software solutions in the managed network solutions team for Panduit. Prior to joining Panduit, Mr. Allen spent about five years at Avid Technologies in various senior leadership roles in the Software, Engineering and Consultative Services Groups. Before Avid, he was Director of Engineering in 3Com's Video and Home Appliances division. His experience also spans technology management roles at Motorola and Inland Steel. Mr. Allen received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
	Mark Ascolese is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at EDSA. He has more than 30 years experience in executive-level operations, marketing, and sales management, much of it in the electrical and electronics field. He has held top-level posts with industry leaders such as General Electric, Eaton, and Powerware. He is a leading figure in the electrical power industry, having co-founded the Washington DC-based Critical Power Coalition, and served on numerous industry and corporate boards. Mr Ascolese is a graduate of the University of Louisville, and of General Electric's Crotonville Executive Management Training program and Duke University's Fuqua School of Executive Education.
	Victor Avelar is a Senior Research Analyst at APC by Schneider Electric's Data Center Science Center. He is responsible for data center design and operations research, and consults with clients on risk assessment and design practices to optimize the availability and efficiency of their data center environments. Mr. Avelar holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Babson College. He is a member of AFCOM and the American Society for Quality.
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	Ken Baker, Datacenter Infrastructure Technologist, Hewlett Packard (HP), is a recognized industry expert on power, cooling and datacenter infrastructure. He is an evangelist for the latest in energy conservation and efficiency technologies for customers worldwide. He is a frequent keynote speaker at various datacenter engineering events, such as the Uptime, 7 x 24 Exchange, and Datacenter Dynamics conferences. Baker joined Compaq in 1982 and was responsible for the formation of a number of organizations, and has held numerous other Engineering and Marketing positions within HP/Compaq, including program and product management for a variety of hardware and software products.
	Henry Baltazar is a Storage Analyst at The 451 Group, focusing on data protection and storage software technologies. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Mr. Baltazar spent nearly nine years working as a technical analyst for eWeek Labs, where he covered storage, server hardware and network operating systems. At eWeek Labs, he initiated the testing coverage of various technologies, including data replication, clustering, virtual tape libraries, storage virtualization, SAN management, NAS, iSCSI and email archiving. In addition, Mr. Baltazar was a member of eWeek's editorial board and provided content for the magazine's enterprise storage blog. Mr. Baltazar holds a BA in Environmental Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
	Rob Bernard is Chief Environmental Strategist for Microsoft. He works with product groups to create technology that helps customers minimize their impact on the environment, and assures environmentally responsible business practices at Microsoft. He also works with partners in industry on global environmental issues. At Microsoft, Mr Bernard has served in leadership roles ranging from marketing to business and technical management. He also worked on Microsoft's project with the Clinton Foundation focused on measuring and tracking greenhouse gas emissions for the C40 cities. Mr Bernard holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
	Dr Paolo Bertoldi is Principal Administrator at the European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability (Ispra, Italy), where he manages research for energy efficiency policy. He is also in charge of negotiated and long-term agreements with industry and tertiary sectors and the GreenLight, Motor Challenge, and Standby Initiative programs on behalf of the Directorate General Energy and Transport (DG TREN). Previously he was Administrator with the European Commission in charge of programs for the rational use of energy in end-use equipment, buildings and industry. Dr Bertoldi holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy).
	Mark Bramfitt is a Principal at Bramfitt Consulting LLC, where he helps utility industries focus on energy efficiency and demand-side management. He previously worked at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company, where he designed programs and services to help PG&E's customers manage their energy use in the high tech, biotech and healthcare industries. Mr Bramfitt also led the Utility IT Energy Efficiency Coalition, promoting the adoption of PG&E's program and service models by more than forty-five utilities throughout North America and is an elected Director of the Valley of the Moon Water District and Chair of the Sonoma Valley Groundwater Basin Advisory Panel.
	Kenneth G. Brill is the Founder of the Uptime Institute and the Site Uptime Network in North America and EMEA. Many data center industry innovations over the last 25 years trace back to his original concepts including dual power, the industry's Tier system for evaluating and classifying data center facility performance, and IT/facility energy efficiency and productivity measurement. Mr. Brill's research into the Economic Meltdown of Moore's Law, Data Center Productivity and Energy Efficiency, and IT's declining economics form core knowledge needed by corporate leaders charged with business performance, profitability, and sustainability.
	Josef Brunner is Chief Architect and Co-founder of Joulex. He has a record of starting and growing companies, including JouleX in 2009 which developed the first version of the JouleX Energy Manager. He founded his first company at 16, which developed one of the first unified threat management systems, and sold it to Azlan (now Techdata). In 2004, Mr Brunner founded Bastille Networks, which focused on proactive security prevention and monitoring, and sold its main assets to Integralis (now part of NPP Telecom) in 2007. He subsequently joined Enterasys (now part of Siemens Enterprise Networks) as director of Security Sales, CEE, Middle East and APAC.
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	Dennis Callaghan is a Senior Analyst at The 451 Group, specializing in coverage of service-oriented architecture (SOA), including Web services development, governance, integration and management tools, application integration, middleware and business process management. His coverage area also includes a number of other IT management technologies, such as Internet performance management, desktop management, service-level monitoring and management, IT asset and service management, and project management. Mr. Callaghan also contributes regularly to 451 Special Reports on topics including open source adoption and virtualization.
	Bob Callender is Vice President for Operations and Energy Services at New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). He was appointed in January 2010, and will oversee the authority's operations and energy efficiency deployment and services programs. He will continue to manage the development of the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP), a knowledge-based clean-energy technology park located in Malta, New York. Mr Callender has worked at NYSERDA for more than 21 years. He holds a Masters degree from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Bachelors degree from American University in Washington DC.
	Jakob Carnemark is Senior Vice President, Mission Critical Center of Excellence, at Skanska USA Building's Mission Critical Center of Excellence. His 25 years of construction experience enables him to provide meaningful and accurate insight to a project. Mr Carnemark's development of a new data center energy/equipment monitoring program is changing the way Facility Managers make strategic decisions on their equipment usage. The program allows Managers to view and manage their data center's energy use from their desktop, in real time, so they can react to upcoming issues and plan for future equipment purchases accordingly.
	Bob Cashner is Senior Vice President of Corporate Properties with Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company. As a relationship manager, Mr. Cashner and his team support the organization's Technology and Operations Group. Over the last decade, Mr. Cashner and the expanded team have worked diligently to help ensure high-resilience, cost-effective and environmentally friendly operations for its mission critical facilities including fault-tolerant data centers and trading floors. Mr. Cashner received his Bachelor's degree from Purdue University and his Master's from the University of Rochester. He also completed Duke University's Fuqua School of Business Senior Management Development Program.
	Rachel Chalmers is Research Director of Infrastructure Management at The 451 Group and has led the Group's infrastructure software practice since its debut in April 2000. She pioneered coverage on SOA, distributed application management, utility computing and open source software. Today she focuses on data center automation and server, desktop and application virtualization. She is lead author of many 451 Special Reports, including ‘'V' for Virtualization: Transforming the data center, driving MandA' (Dec 2006) and ‘Virtualization II: Desktops and applications are next' (Jun 2007). Ms Chalmers began covering the technology sector in 1995, when she helped launch Computer Week, and later PC Week Australia.
	Dr Brian Chambers is Dassault Systemes' Business Strategy and Development Director, with over 20 years of senior-level enterprise software business development, product marketing, sales and management consulting experience. Dr. Chambers is a former executive at i2 Technologies and KPMG Consulting. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and his MS from Michigan State University's College of Natural Science.
	Herman Chan is Raritan's Director of Power and Management Solutions Business Unit. Based in Somerset, NJ, he focuses on building data center infrastructure management solutions and engages with customers to solve problems associated with data center energy management, uptime and efficiency. Mr Chan has nearly 20 years of experience in product development and management for network and data center infrastructure management solutions. He has previously held management positions with Fountain Technologies and Panasonic. He holds a degree in Economics from Rutgers University.
	Amit Chatterjee is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Hara Software. Prior to founding Hara he led SAP's fast-growing Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) unit, increasing revenues from $30 million to $250 million during his tenure. Mr Chatterjee developed his strategic and leadership experience at McKinsey and Co, working with clients such as SAP, Cisco and Oracle. His contributions to environmental and energy management started with Global Reporting Institute, UN Global Compact and at Harvard's JFK School of Public Policy. He has BA degrees in Political Science and Chemistry from UC Berkeley, with graduate studies at Stanford University.
	Emily Christopulos, President and Founder of GapHOG International, is pleased to lead the discussion on Airflow Utilization Efficiency (AUE) in data centers at the Uptime Institute Symposium. Ms. Christopulos is the inventor of GapHOG methods and products for increasing data center cooling efficiency and has worked in various capacities in the data center environment over the last six years.
	Arthur Cole is a technology journalist currently specializing in enterprise infrastructure issues for IT Business Edge (itbusinessedge.com). Mr. Cole has more than 20 years of experience covering a wide variety of high-tech fields, including audio/video production and distribution, advanced communications, Internet and data architectures.
	Craig Compiano is Chief Executive Officer and President of Modius. He is a business manager and entrepreneur with a record of developing businesses. He has 30 years’ experience in Business and Systems Development, Operations and Finance. He previously worked at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in software development, which led to his current concentration on operational systems development and performance analytics for data centers, and the founding of Modius. Previously, he was Co-Founder and Vice President of Paymap. Mr Compiano has a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MBA Finance from UC Berkeley.
	Lex Coors is Vice President, Datacenter Technology and Engineering Group, Interxion. He has managed complex engineering and design/build challenges since the early 1980s. As Interxion’s Director of Engineering (and formerly Vice President of its Datacenter Technology and Engineering Group), he supervised the design, build and upgrade of nearly 50,000m² of data center space in 22 locations in 12 countries. A founding member of the Uptime Institute, he is also a member of the European Commission DG Joint Research Committee on Sustainability and the European Data Centre Code of Conduct Metrics Group, and a contributor to The Green Grid’s Technical Forum.
	Steve Coplan is a Senior Analyst covering identity and access management for The 451 Group’s Enterprise Security Practice. He focuses on identity issues at the intersection between networks, infrastructure software (particularly virtualization) and mobility. Mr. Coplan served as director of product marketing at Whale Communications, a secure remote-access vendor acquired by Microsoft. At Whale, he was responsible for implementing the product marketing strategy for a corporate repositioning. Mr. Coplan also covered technology and economic trends for European financial newswire AFX News as the San Francisco Bureau Chief. While at AFX, he established the service’s framework for coverage of US technology companies and established its first office on the US West Coast in 1998.
	Joshua Corman is the Research Director of The 451 Group’s enterprise security practice, where his research cuts across sectors to the core challenges of the industry, and drives evolutionary strategies toward emerging technologies and shifting economics. Mr. Corman has more than a decade of experience with security and networking software, most recently serving as Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems. Mr. Corman is a candid and highly coveted speaker and has spoken at leading industry events such as RSA, Interop, ISACA, and SANS. His efforts to educate and challenge the industry recently lead NetworkWorld magazine to recognize him as a top Influencer of IT for 2009. Mr. Corman also serves on the Faculty for IANS and is a staunch advocate for CISOs everywhere.
	Daniel Costello is the Director for Datacenter Research and Engineering at Microsoft and is responsible for datacenter standards and technologies, datacenter technology roadmap, Generation 4 datacenter engineering, datacenter automation and integration with IT hardware, operating systems, and applications. Mr. Costello also works closely with Microsoft Research on proof of concept projects in support of the datacenter of the future and manages a team of facility engineers and service architects. Prior to joining Microsoft, he held various positions in IT including individual contributor and management roles in IT construction project management and global infrastructure operations groups. Mr. Costello designed and built his first datacenter in 1995. He has a T. Eng in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology of Dublin and is a member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland.
	Carl Cottuli is Vice President of Product Development and Services at Wright Line, and has more than 20 years experience in power, cooling and management standardization. He has launched professional and installation services in organizations around the world. Mr Cottuli has written a number of articles on green data center best practices, has presented webinars and has spoken at several conferences including: AFCOM, 7x24 and Interop - all on low cost, energy-efficient, data center management issues. He previously worked for American Power Conversion (APC), which provides network critical infrastructure solutions, and Russelectric, which manufactures power control and protection systems.
	Peter Cullen serves as Senior Vice President of Product Development - Information Services at IDEAS International Ltd. Mr. Cullen served as Senior Vice President of Information Services of Ideas International Ltd. and its Senior Vice President, Analysis and Content. Mr. Cullen joined IDEAS in 1999 after previous management positions in customer service both locally and overseas, hardware product marketing, software distribution and systems integration. Mr. Cullen now manages IDEAS’ global analysis and research operations, working closely with Sales, Consulting and Technology.
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	Joerg Desler is Vice President of Engineering and Production with Stulz Air Technology Systems Inc, a manufacturer of precision air conditioning, humidification, and dehumidification systems. He began his career with STULZ gmbh in 1992 at their headquarters in Hamburg, Germany as Electrical Engineer in RandD, becoming a Project Manager and supporting International Sales. In 2001 he transferred to the US operation of STULZ. Mr Desler holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany, and is member of the Association for Operations Management (APICS).
	Jonathan Dickinson is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for the City of New York. The office is responsible for the development and implementation of Mayor Bloomberg’s long-term sustainability plan, PlaNYC. His responsibilities include developing the City’s climate change policies, completing its annual greenhouse gas emissions inventories, and implementing strategies to increase its resilience to climate change. He was previously Deputy Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination. Mr Dickinson holds a BA in English from Hobart College and a Master of Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island.
	Greg Dietrich is Credit Suisse’s Director of IT Infrastructure Capacity and Inventory Management, with responsibility for data center facilities management, provisioning service management, life cycle management and operational excellence across the Americas region. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Dietrich held various roles in the Infrastructure Outsourcing and Managed Services arenas while at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), where he was the Director of Engineering & Operations for CSC’s Managed Hosting Services business unit, responsible for hosting operations across five data centers in North America. Mr. Dietrich has held positions responsible for large scale enterprise resource planning systems integration for IBM Global Services. He started his career in General Electric’s Information Management Leadership Program.
	Gregg Dixon has led various sales, marketing, and business development efforts at EnerNOC and currently leads marketing efforts worldwide to utility and end-use customers. Mr. Dixon is primarily responsible for leading the development of EnerNOC’s go-to-market strategy, product and service development, and the execution of marketing mechanisms that accelerate profitable sales growth and brand recognition through creative and customer-driven insights. Prior to joining EnerNOC, Gregg was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Hess Microgen, the leading provider of commercial on-site co-generation systems and services in the United States.
	Andrew Dominey is Product Manager at 1E and has extensive experience with data center energy efficiency, server virtualization and Microsoft enterprise solutions. Since joining 1E in 2005, Mr Dominey has held numerous management roles. He served as a systems administrator for Cobweb Solutions where he monitored and maintained an expansive infrastructure serving more than 1,500 customers. Previously, he developed an in-depth understanding of large-scale server infrastructures as a field service engineer, and a 2nd- and 3rd-level engineer at World Class International.
	Thomas C Donovan is President of Panduit Corp, a global leader in network and electrical infrastructure solutions based in Tinley Park, Illinois. With 25 years of experience at Panduit Corp, including roles in Global Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales, Mr Donovan brings a proven track record of success and a comprehensive understanding of the company’s global business strategy. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mr Donovan is a graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Industrial Management. Mr Donovan also serves on the Board of Directors at Silver Cross Hospital.
	Dan Draper joined Emerson Network Power in 2008 as Industry Marketing Manager dedicated to developing solutions and strategies which solve customer issues caused by growing Healthcare IT Infrastructures. Mr. Draper is currently focused on educating hospitals, resellers and consulting engineers on how the best practices in power, cooling and monitoring can be used to maximize and protect IT investments in hospitals, healthcare facilities and physician offices. Mr. Draper brings over 10 years of IT experience in strategy, pricing, marketing and product management through past roles with NCR Corporation and Teradata Corporation. Mr. Draper has a BS in both Finance and Economics from The Ohio State University and an MBA in Business Administration from The University of Dayton.
	John Drossos is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CloudSite Development, LLC., a data center development and investment firm with offices in Dallas, TX and Beijing, China. CloudSite has designed a multi-tiered and energy efficient production data center product utilizing Kyoto Cooling ™, an air-to-air waterless cooling solution. The Company has plans to development approximately one million square feet of data hall space in China over the next three years. In addition to his responsibilities with Cloudsite Development, Mr. Drossos serves on the Board of Directors of AIM-TO, Inc.
	David Dunn is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for CoreSite. Mr. Dunn joined the company in 2004 and has led the company's marketing and business development activities since 2006. Prior to joining CoreSite, Mr. Dunn was a Senior Analyst at The Carlyle Group, where he played a role in managing several strategic projects as well as Carlyle's data center investments. Before joining The Carlyle Group, he was an Analyst at another private equity fund, JER Partners, where he evaluated acquisition opportunities and conducted due diligence on multiple real estate property types. Mr. Dunn graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics.
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	Dr Albert Esser is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Albert Esser Consulting, which offers a variety of services in the technology sector and green IT. Until 2009, Dr Esser was Vice President, Power and Infrastructure Solutions at Dell, where he was responsible for its Infrastructure Product line and the global Power and Cooling Initiative. Before that he was Vice President Engineering of Eaton; and Vice President Technology, Fluid Power Group, Eaton. A published author, he has won numerous awards and holds 12 US patents. Dr Esser has a Diplom-Ing (MS) and Dr-Ing (PhD) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aachen, Germany.
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	Andrew Fanara is the new Director of Sustainability for OSIsoft, and former Team Leader at Energy Star Product Specifications Development Group, Climate Protection Partnership Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). In his nearly 15 years of experience at the US EPA Energy Star Program, he worked closely with a variety of industry sector manufacturers and with policy makers globally trying to tackle the twin challenges of energy security and climate change by identifying products with superior energy efficiency and water savings. Mr Fanara is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
	Alyssa A. Farrell, Manager of Strategic and Sustainable Solutions with SAS Worldwide Marketing, has responsibility for SAS’ Sustainability Solutions and works with SAS customers around the world to understand best practices and solutions for managing their business with environmental responsibility in mind. Prior to joining SAS, Ms. Farrell was a senior consultant in the Deloitte Public Sector practice. In this capacity, she was a project manager for state-wide and county-wide systems implementations and was responsible for user acceptance testing, change management and training, and middleware technology selection.
	William Fellows is Principal Analyst at The 451 Group, where he drives the user research program with IT early adopters and innovators, and leads 451’s research within the European Commission Framework. He also sits on numerous advisory boards and planning committees for industry bodies including OGF and the UK DTI’s GCN. Before co-founding The 451 Group, Mr Fellows worked for 11 years in technology and business journalism, including editing the influential Unix industry newsletter Unigram.X. Mr Fellows has a degree in Government and Sociology from the University of Essex and a Masters in Information Systems and Theory from Portsmouth Polytechnic.
	Mordechai Finkelstein is Managing Director of Citigroup. He has been with Citi for more than a decade and is responsible for Applications Services, Architecture, Capacity Planning and Regional Engineering for Citi Technology Infrastructure North America, as well as the Global Engineering and Architecture for Databases for Citi Architecture and Technology Engineering. Previously he served as Chief Information Officer at Versaware, an ePublishing company, and as a Director in the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications of the City of NY. Mr Finkelstein holds a Bachelor of Technology and Applied Sciences in Computer Software Engineering and an MBA in International Business.
	Kevin Flanagan is Vice President of CTI-Data Centre Operations at CGI Technology Infrastructure Management, which provides information technology and business process services. Mr Flanagan manages CGI’s data centres in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and Saguenay; he is also responsible for Computer Operations and Production Control. He has been in IT since 1987 and is experienced in data center management, implementing efficient approaches to power conservation, and electromechanical improvements to provide significant savings in power consumption and cooling efficiency. Mr Flanagan is a Certified FM from the University of Toronto’s Engineering Department.
	Tom Freeman is Managing Director and Co-Leader of the Global Mission Critical Solutions team of Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc. where he is responsible for the firm’s critical facilities site selection practice. He has played an integral role in conducting data center industry studies, developing data center portfolio and research strategies, creating best practice tools and acquiring data center sites and facilities around the globe for his clients. Since 1998, Mr. Freeman has led Mission Critical Solutions projects for some of the world’s largest corporations including Microsoft, Sprint, Unisys, EDS, The Home Depot and VMware. Mr. Freeman graduated from Texas A&M University at Commerce with a BBA in Marketing and Economics and attended the Executive MBA program at Emory University.
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	Dr Carlos Garcia de la Noceda is Senior Progam Manager at the Data Center Business Unit, Deerns Consulting Engineers. For more than 20 years he has managed complex systems, services and solutions for government and enterprise customers in Europe and the US, as well as the design and execution of several large data centers. He also manages European data center operations for a large US data center operator. He has worked with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), BBN Technologies, Amdocs, Lucent (Bell Labs), Terremark, and The Climate Project (Spain). Mr Garcia de la Noceda holds a PhD in Political Science and an MBA focused on Information Systems.
	Chris Gaskins is Vice President, Product Development at RF Code. He joined the organisation from American Power Conversion by Schneider Electric, a global provider of high availability systems for network-critical physical infrastructure. There, he oversaw product management, product marketing and engineering for the Security and Environmental Product Line. Before that, he was director of service and support at NetBotz where he built and managed a worldwide service and support team. He was also Vice President, Worldwide Development at AppGate, and held various engineering, development and product management roles within Tivoli Systems and IBM. Mr Gaskins has a BS in Computer Science from Berry College.
	Dan Gatti is President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Center Rebates. He developed the Energy Rebate program at Verari Systems, focusing on data center efficiency, and helped establish the “Go Green” initiative at the Telecommunications Industry Association where he serves on the board of directors. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of venture-backed OnSite Systems, BigBangwidth and MAYAN Networks. He is on the board of directors of CallGenie, TIA and San Diego Chapter of TiE Indus, and is chairman of eKidsmovies.com. He is also an investment and business development advisor to Enterprise Saskatchewan. Mr Gatti has a BA from Fairfield University and an executive MBA at Harvard Advanced Business School.
	Brian George is a Principal at Corgan Associates, a national architectural firm with offices in Dallas, New York, Phoenix, Houston and Beijing. He is also on the firm's management committee, leads a team of talented architects on a wide range of project types, and specializes in critical facilities architecture. His in-depth knowledge of critical electrical and mechanical systems brings value to the planning and execution of critical facilities projects. Brian is a graduate of Ball State University with a Bachelor of Architecture. He is NCARB certified and registered in multiple jurisdictions.
	Kfir Godrich is Vice President and Chief Technologist for HP Enterprise Business (EB), Technology Services (TS). His role is driving the technology roadmap for HP TS, providing thought leadership that strengthens HPs leadership in field of technology services. Before that role, Mr. Godrich was Chief Technology Officer for HP CFS delivered by EYP Mission Critical Facilities. His expertise is in powering critical infrastructure and complex systems applications and technologies. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Godrich has provided consulting services to global financial, technology and telecom clients, as well as public sector entities. He's been directly involved in the development of the NGDC strategy for more than a dozen of Fortune 50 companies. Mr. Godrich is the leader of HP TS Technology Council.
	Peter Gross is Vice President and General Manager of HP Critical Facilities Services, delivered by EYP MCF, and his responsibilities include strategic technology planning and business development, assuring the quality of the consulting and engineering services, and maintaining a direct link of communication with clients. Mr. Gross is a leading thinker and practitioner of mission-critical information and infrastructure design with numerous published technical papers and frequent international speaking engagements. He has more than 20 years of experience in the engineering and design of power systems as applied to data centers, trading floors, command and control centers, and telecommunication and broadcasting facilities.
	Deborah Grove is Principal of Grove Associates and has 24 years’ experience of entrepreneurship, global channel strategies, market research and innovation consulting. She founded Asia’s first office automation consultancy in 1981 with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea, and when International Data Corporation bought it in 1985, she continued as Managing Director, IDC Asia until relocating to Silicon Valley. She was also Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Introplus, a web services company offering social networking for vacations and conferences. Ms Grove graduated from UCLA and the American Graduate School of International Management.
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	Billie Haggard is the Senior Vice President of Data Centers for CoreSite. Mr. Haggard is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, facilities staffing and ultimately uptime, reliability and energy efficiency of CoreSite’s data centers. Mr. Haggard brings 20 years of experience, leading a team of experts dedicated to delivering industry-leading infrastructure reliability and efficiency. Before joining CoreSite, Mr. Haggard was Senior Technical Manager at Switch and Data, where he oversaw data center design. Mr. Haggard studied Engineering at Louisiana State University and Louisiana Tech University. Additionally, he served in the United States Navy, focusing on nuclear power technology and maintenance.
	Steve Hassell took on the role of President of Avocent in January 2010, after Emerson acquired Avocent Corporation. Avocent is now a division of Emerson Network Power, the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™ from grid to chip for telecommunication networks, data centers, health care and industrial facilities. Mr. Hassell joined Emerson in February 2004 as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He was responsible for all information technology hardware, software, services and telecommunications across Emerson. Mr. Hassell came to Emerson from Invensys, where he served as Chief Information Officer. Mr. Hassell holds a BS in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
	Andy Hawkins is a Product Manager at 1E, and an integral part of the innovations team, responsible for the development of new innovations which enable end user organizations to reduce IT costs. Most recently, Mr Hawkins spearheaded the development of the hotly anticipated NightWatchman Server Edition, a power and efficiency management tool, which launched in October 2009. During his eleven years at 1E, He has held a number of roles, including principal consultant on some of the UK’s largest IT projects. Mr Hawkins holds a BS in Physics and Acoustics from the University of Surrey.
	Max Henrion is Chief Executive Officer of Lumina Decision Systems, which develops decision software and provides consulting and training in decision analysis. He has led the design of analytic decision tools including Lumina’s flagship product, Analytica. At Ask Jeeves, he led the division that created Jeeves Advisor. He has published articles and books and was the founding President of the Association for Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence, a Consulting Professor at Stanford University and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, Master of Design from the Royal College of Art, London, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon.
	Keiichi Hirose is Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, Research and Development Headquarters at NTT Facilities. He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1992 to work on improving telecom power systems. In 2000, he joined NTT Facilities (NTT-F), where he is responsible for power engineering. He has more than 15 years’ experience in power system design and operation, and is currently developing reliable high power quality mixed AC-DC power facilities for telecom and data centers. Mr Hirose leads NTT’s HVDC project. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yamagata University, and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Niigata University. He is a PhD student at Nagoya University.
	James Houghton is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity. In this role, Mr. Houghton interacts with key technology providers to evolve capabilities and partnerships that enable Adaptivity to offer its complete SOIT, RTI and Utility Computing solutions. In addition, he engages with key clients to ensure successful leverage of the ADIOS™ methodology. Prior to joining Adaptivity, Mr. Houghton was the Senior Vice President for the infrastructure organization at Bank of America, where he drove legacy infrastructure transformation initiatives across 40+ data centers. Prior to that he was the head of Wachovia’s Utility Product Management, where he drove the design, services and offering for SOA and utility computing for the technology division of Wachovia’s Corporate & Investment Bank. Mr. Houghton has also led leading-edge consulting practices at IBM Global Technology Services and Deloitte Consulting.
	Thomas Hudgens is Senior Program Manager at Willdan Energy Solutions, where he is an energy efficiency consultant serving the data center and mission critical facility industry. He is also Senior Program Manager for NYSERDA’s Focus on Industrial and Process outreach program, designed to drive energy efficiency in data centers in the State of New York. He has worked in the data center and IT infrastructure fields for ten years, including: engineering and construction management for data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure; high availability server infrastructure design and implementation; IP telephony system deployment; high density cooling design and development; and data center information management systems.
	David Humphrey is a Senior Consultant with Uptime Institute Professional Services. He performs audits, custom strategic-level consulting engagements, and Operational Sustainability Certifications. Mr. Humphrey’s work in critical facilities includes responsibilities ranging from Program Manager of a major facility infrastructure service contract for a data center, Project Manager for the design/construct for several large data centers, Chief of Maintenance for a major industrial complex, and the Chief of an engineering branch. As a consultant for the Department of Defense, Mr. Humphrey has provided planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of world-wide mission critical facilities. Mr. Humphrey’s 29-year career includes 16 years as a U.S. Air Force Officer, 10 years managing data centers, and 3 years as a consultant.
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	Sherman Ikemoto is General Manager for Future Facilities Inc. a leading supplier of data center design and modeling software and services. Prior to joining Future Facilities, Mr. Ikemoto had worked at Flomerics, Inc. as a sales, marketing and business development manager. Mr. Ikemoto has over 20 years experienced in the field of thermal-fluids and electronics cooling design. Mr. Ikemoto has a BS from San Jose State University and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University.
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	Bernd Klusmann is Project Manager Technologies at Bitkom eV, Germany’s Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media. He works in the Green IT Project Advisory Office, which provides a forum for users and providers of Green IT technologies, and markets a funding program within Germany. It assists in the generation of ideas for Green IT projects and in applying for federal funding. Before joining the Green IT Advisory Office, Mr Klusmann was project manager for nine years with the European Advanced Networking Test Center, and before that with T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate- customer unit.
	Dennis Kniery, CFM, is Manager-Energy Programs for DFW Consulting Group, where he oversaw 2009 savings in excess of $2M/year in Texas alone. The data center solution implemented includes applying wireless thermographic continuous monitoring for PUE and air flow optimization (SynapSense). Prior to his role with DFW Consulting Group, Mr. Kniery served as Site Operations Manager then MEP Manager in charge of infrastructure maintenance for a multi-story 200k+sf raised floor data center on a 2Msf campus. Mr. Kniery also managed Hewlett Packard FM programs, including the 2001 IFMA Facility Management award-winning team, as well as the HVAC solutions for Countrywide, including 10 central plants, two data center start-ups at 200w/sf, and raised floor using CRAHs and tiles to accomplish 300w/sf in row load bank tested solution.
	Dr Jonathan Koomey is a Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He is the author or coauthor of eight books and more than 150 articles and reports on energy efficiency and power technologies, energy economics, energy policy, global climate change, and critical thinking skills, and is a leading expert on the economics of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of information technology on resource use. Dr Koomey holds an AB in the History of Science from Harvard University and an MS and PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California-Berkeley.
	Julian Kudritzki is Vice President of Uptime Institute Professional Services, facilitating prospective engagements and delivering operations support to contracted clients. Additionally, Mr Kudritzki oversees the project support, production, accounting and marketing staffs and has been critical to the contracting and delivery of engagements in Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North and South America. Mr Kudritzki joined Uptime Institute Professional Services (ComputerSite Engineering) in 2004, following numerous positions as a professional- level editor for major publications. As Tier Certification Manager, Mr Kudritzki ensures the integrity of Tier Certifications in the marketplace and works with clients to broadcast their Tier accomplishments.
	Christopher Kurkjian, PE, is the Worldwide Practice Leader of Critical Facilities Design at EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a company of Hewlett Packard (HP). As a professional mechanical engineer, Mr Kurkjian has 25 years’ experience in the design and construction of complex air conditioning, plumbing and fire protection systems for mission critical facilities. He is also a member of ASHRAE’s technical committee, TC9.9, on mission critical environments. Mr Kurkjian has co-authored and presented several ASHRAE-published papers on air-conditioning design for data centers, and has written and contributed to several white papers. He also speaks at many global events.
	Dan Kusnetzky is Vice President of Research Operations at The 451 Group. Before joining 451, Mr Kusnetzky was Principal Analyst at KG LLC. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Corporate and Marketing Strategy for Open-Xchange, a software company that provides open-source collaborative solutions. Mr Kusnetzky also spent 12 years at International Data Corporation (IDC), four of them as Vice President of System Software Research; and16 years with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was responsible for program and product management and marketing in the areas of client software, server software, and clustered and networked systems.
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	Matt Lane is President of Geist Intelligent Facilities, and has more than 10 years of experience in data center monitoring and product development. He brings a range of experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and manager. With his training in IT, and knowledge of data centers and supporting infrastructure, Mr Lane is a leader in critical systems management.
	Andy Lawrence leads the Eco-Efficient IT research practice at The 451 Group, an international enterprise IT analyst firm. His team focuses on how IT and business can monitor and reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Mr. Lawrence also covers data center resource efficiency projects and is the Program Director for the Uptime Institute Symposium on Data Center Efficiency and Green Enterprise IT. Mr. Lawrence is the author of several major reports covering eco-efficient IT, power management, policy, legislation, compliance and datacenter management and energy efficiency software. He represents The 451 Group at the Green Grid and leads eco-efficiency research component in the EU's Optimis project on open cloud services. Before joining The 451 Group to focus on eco-efficiency, Mr. Lawrence was the co-founder of Infoconomy, a new generation technology publishing and information company, and was an influential technology editor, launching several authoritative magazines and information services.
	RM "Mees" Lodder, CEO of KyotoCooling, was principal to the creation and organization of the corporation and continues to act in a role of overseeing growth and extension of the brand. Mr. Lodder is an MSc Engineering Graduate of Delft University. As a Data Center Operations manager for Getronics he initiated a drive to optimize data center design through sound scientific methods. Subsequent to this KyotoCooling was commercialized. Mr Lodder quickly established himself as leader and visionary, guiding the company through its formative stages. Mr. Lodder is also a co-owner of Uptime Technology, a Netherlands-based consulting organization.
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	Michael Manos is Vice President of Service Operations at Nokia, responsible for the strategy, operation and infrastructure of Nokia’s new cloud and mobile services platforms. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Technical Services at Digital Realty Trust, responsible for data center construction and technical operations as well as overseeing data center professional services. He has also worked at Microsoft where he was responsible for the global design, construction and operations of all Microsoft data center facilities in support of online cloud services, and internal IT growth. Mr Manos attended the Illinois Institute of Technology, and maintains multiple industry technical certifications.
	Fred Mapp, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quality Service Solutions, has an extensive amount of experience in the area of information technology systems, applications, infrastructure support, customer support and consulting services developed over 40 years with the World Congress on Information Technology, AMD, Honeywell, InfoSpan Corporation, American Express, IBM and Quality Service Solutions, his own consulting company. He is experienced in developing and defining IT objectives and strategic plans and in the implementation of the necessary supporting technology. Mr. Mapp also has expertise in areas such as project management, process management, six sigma, quality deployment, outsourcing, e-business development, call center management, sales and marketing technical support and services business development.
	KC Mares is President of MegaWatt Consulting, which specializes in data center energy efficiency. He co-chairs the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) Data Center Energy Efficiency demonstration program, and has worked on energy efficiency programs for FaceBook, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, the US Department of Energy, Yahoo!, Google, BEA Systems, Equinix and many others. He has been working with Rumsey Engineers on the design of data centers with PUEs below 1.08, and with companies to develop and design highly efficient data centers and complete site selections. His work has earned numerous awards, including twice winning EnergyStar Partner of the Year.
	Lauralee Martin is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Operating Officer at Jones Lang LaSalle, an integrated global real estate services and money management firm located in more than 60 countries. Ms Martin is responsible for all global finance functions including accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit and investor relations, together with information technology and all aspects of the firm’s operational platform. She serves on the boards of Jones Lang LaSalle, KeyCorp, HCP and the Oregon State Board of Visitors. Ms Martin has a BA from Oregon State University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.
	Jo McCarthy is an IT Enterprise Architect for J.R. Simplot, where she is involved in a wide range of projects including responsibility for the Green IT program efforts. Significant progress has been documented in behavioral, awareness, metrics, recycling and projects which have all helped move Simplot IT forward in Sustainability. IT even adopted ‘SustainabilIT’ as an important mission. Two of her first projects were approval and implementation of PC Power Management and Video Conferencing. As chairperson for Green IT, Ms. McCarthy joined the Data Center Remodel team in 2009, to completely change the data center’s layout and racking, electrical use, delivery and protection, air conditioning and policies – with Green IT in mind. The result included the Simplot annual ‘President’s Award’ for an outstanding environmental project. At this time, notable improvements can be seen in energy use in both power and gas across the Simplot IT campus.
	Kevin Meagher is Chief Technology Officer at EDSA, where he is responsible for a wide range of product direction, business development, and strategic planning. Prior to joining EDSA, Mr. Meagher was president of a boutique business consulting company that worked closely in product planning, strategic planning and business valuation for public companies such as Eaton, Invensys General Electric, and Alpha Technology, as well as leading venture capital and private equity firms from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Mr. Meagher has undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Business, and an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado as well as doctoral work in Knowledge Management. Kevin also holds a Master Captain’s License from the US Coast Guard and has a current commission in the US Merchant Marine.
	Alasdair Meldrum is the Programme Director for the Uptime Institute's Site Uptime Network-Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role, he is responsible for developing the Network from its founding membership of 8 companies into a multi-group organisation. Mr. Meldrum is also responsible for planning, facilitation, benchmarking, abnormal incident reporting and analysis, and overall programme success. In an IT career spanning more than 35 years, Mr. Meldrum has created many business units from scratch, developing products and services deliverables to meet or anticipate market demand. In one such role for IBM, his Service Management team delivered a customised set of data centre best practices to the UK government for inclusion in its IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). This creative foundation work is still the basis of ITIL 20 years on and is used globally on a daily basis by many organisations.
	Bob Morris is Chief Executive Officer and President of Corgan, a national architectural firm with offices in Dallas, New York, Phoenix, Houston and Beijing. As founder of Corgan's Critical Facilities Architecture Group, Mr. Morris was recently named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for his contribution to the profession of architecture through innovation and leadership in the design of mission critical data centers. Mr. Morris earned a bachelor's degree in environmental design from Miami University of Ohio. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Texas Society of Architects, AFCOM and 7x24 Exchange.
	Dave Mulholland is Vice President of Marketing and Service at Power Distribution Incorporated. He joined in 1999 as Director of Marketing and helped PDI evolve into more than just a data center power distribution business. This began in 2004 when PDI entered the rack cabinet business through an alliance with Wright Line. Since then PDI has expanded its range of power solutions for the IT side of data centers. In 2007, PDI was acquired by Bertram Capital which added Marelco to the power platform in 2008. In the same year, PDI acquired Onyx Power out of Costa Mesa.
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	Dean Nelson is the Senior Director of Global Data Center Services for eBay, Inc. This role includes the strategy, architecture, and operations functions of eBay’s mission critical infrastructure supporting the activities of ebay.com, paypal.com and other eBay Inc adjacencies. Prior to joining eBay, Mr. Nelson was the Senior Director of Global Lab & Data Center Design Services (GDS) of Sun Microsystems, where he enjoyed a 17-year career in a variety of roles. Mr. Nelson is also the Chairman and Founder of Data Center Pulse.
	Calvin Nicholson is Senior Director Product Management and Software Development at Server Technology, which designs and manufactures intelligent power distribution products for enterprise data centers. Previously he was Director of Product Marketing at GameTech International, where he created strategies and specifications for gaming management systems, games and portable card minding devices. He has also held various positions in the Process Control Instrumentation field for more than 11 years, including Sales Engineer, Product Manager, Account Manager and Marketing Manager for ABB with domestic and international responsibility. Mr Nicholson has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Nevada, Reno.
	Gale K Nordling is President and Chief Executive Officer of Emprimus. He has 35 years experience as an engineer, a practising attorney, general counsel, risk manager, risk management and insurance consultant, and expert witness. He has been involved with the preparation, negotiation, settlement, litigation, arbitration, mediation and insurance coverage of more than $500 million of claims and contract disputes for engineers, contractors, suppliers and owners. He has been employed by a nuclear utility, a disaster recovery company, a national construction company, and an international risk management firm. Mr Nordling served on a national committee to create a national pooled inventory and management of safety related spare equipment for all nuclear plants.
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	Doug Oathout is Vice President of Marketing for Converged Infrastructure in the Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking Worldwide Organization at Hewlett Packard (HP). He is responsible for articulating the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy and portfolio. Previously, he was Vice President of Green IT and business development for HP Enterprise Business. He also worked for IBM’s server, printing and services businesses; for Intel as product marketing manager; and for NCR as a research and development engineer. Mr Oathout has an MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan Flagler Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University.
	Stephen Oliver is Vice President of Marketing and Sales, V•I Chip Division at Vicor Corporation. He draws on international experience in product development, manufacturing, and strategic product marketing in the AC-DC, telecom, processor power and automotive markets. He was previously with International Rectifier in Los Angeles, California, and with Philips Electronics and Motorola in the UK. He has presented at major conferences around the world and holds several power electronics patents. Mr Oliver holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University, UK and an MBA in Global Strategy and Marketing from UCLA.
	Martin Olsen is Vice President of Global Channels and Business Development for Active Power, a manufacturer of critical backup power systems and continuous power solutions for mission critical operations. Previously he was director of the Data Center Group for Wright Line LLC, and before that he led the product marketing and business development charter for APC, a Schneider-Electric Company in Munich, Singapore and the United States. He has extensively researched, written and presented on computer room and data center power/cooling infrastructure and holds two US patents. Mr Olsen has a BSc in Marketing from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark.
	Jeff Omelchuck founded the Green Electronics Council (GEC) in 2005 with the vision of re-inventing society’s relationship with electronics. In 2006 stakeholders selected GEC to manage EPEAT, the stakeholder-driven global green certification program for electronics, and Mr. Omelchuck is now the Executive Director of the GEC and of EPEAT. Mr. Omelchuck began his career as an engineer in the electronics industry in Silicon Valley, then founded and managed a consulting and training practice before starting GEC. Mr. Omelchuck received a BS from Montana State and an MS from Stanford University.
	Tom O'Rourke is Global Data Center Strategy, CPIM Product Management for iTRACS. With over 20 years of experience as a technology leader, Mr. O'Rourke has applied his deep systems knowledge in designing, building, and optimizing IT solutions across multiple vertical industries, including financial services, public health, energy, and telecommunications. Most recently, as a principal with Syntropy Partners, an IT consultancy focused on improving IT infrastructure efficiency and effectiveness. Prior to Syntropy, as an Executive Director at UBS Financial Services with a portfolio that included IT strategy, architecture, data center planning, infrastructure rationalization, middleware development, and security.
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	Christina Page is Director of Climate and Energy Strategy for Yahoo!, She is responsible for its climate program, energy efficiency and clean tech initiatives, and for monitoring and reducing the company’s carbon footprint. Yahoo! aims to reduce the carbon intensity of its data centers by 40% by 2014. She was formerly a senior consultant on the Energy and Resources Team at Rocky Mountain Institute and has lectured on sustainable business practices at National Taiwan University, Peking University and the University of Colorado. Ms Page has a BS in Environmental Studies from Brown University and an MS in Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment.
	Peter Panfil is the Vice President and General Manager of Liebert AC Power, where he leads the Liebert AC Power global roadmap development. Mr. Panfil, who joined Emerson in 1994, has over 30 years experience in embedded controls and power. In his current role, Mr. Panfil works to apply the latest power and control technology to industry-proven topologies to provide the highest availability systems for business-critical applications. Liebert AC Power also partners with customer groups to incorporate industry trends into new product development. A frequent presenter at industry trade shows and conferences. Mr. Panfil is an AFCOM Data Center Institute board member and provides expert commentary in leading IT, facilities and engineering media outlets.
	Jeff Paschke is Senior Analyst, Datacenters at Tier1 Research. Prior to joining Tier1 in 2008, Mr Paschke managed data centers for Capital One Financial for more than five years. Before that, he spent more than 10 years as a consultant advising Fortune 500 clients on re-architecting and redesigning data center infrastructures, processes, tools and organizations. Mr Paschke started his career in the defense industry, deploying and managing computer networks for General Dynamics. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Texas AandM University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
	Ray Pfeifer is Senior Vice President of Business Development for SynapSense, a mesh wireless sensor networking company in Folsom, California. He has more than 20 years experience in the design, construction and commissioning of research labs, biotech and semiconductor manufacturing plants and data centers. His extensive involvement in industry bodies includes being: Co-Chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s data center energy efficiency initiative; US Green Building Council Data Center LEED Adaptation Working Group Chair; and facilitator for the California Energy Commission Data Center Environmental Performance Criteria project. Mr Pfeifer is also involved in the Department of Energy (DOE) DCPro assessment tools.
	Clemens Pfeiffer is Chief Technology Officer at Power Assure, and has 22 years’ experience in the software industry. Before co-founding Power Assure, Mr Pfeiffer was founder, President and Chief Executive Officer for 10 years at International SoftDevices Corporation, focused on designing and implementing a multi-industry smart process automation platform and integration agents called “Digital Employees”. He has also been chief software architect for Hewlett Packard, in charge of innovative process automation, where he modeled high level business processes and designed IT architecture recommendations for global banks, telecom companies, and the US Department of Defense. Mr Pfeiffer holds a MS degree in Information Technology from Furtwangen University, Germany.
	Antonio Piraino, Vice President and Research Director at Tier1 Research, is a regular speaker at managed hosting, virtualization and cloud computing conferences, and the author of the T1R Managed Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure series reports. He also serves as the Conference Director for Tier1’s European Hosting Transformation Summit. Before joining Tier1, Mr Piraino spent a decade in the Telecom, CDN and software development industries. During this time, he was Director of IP and Data Services for China Telecom and Telecom Italia. Originally from South Africa, Mr Piraino has a BS from the University of Natal and an International MBA from Georgetown University.
	Brian Platt is Program Manager for New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's Process, Power, and FlexTech program. He has worked 22 years in the energy field for New York State. Previously, Mr. Platt worked for Shell Oil Company as a project manager for offshore process facilities and cogeneration plants. Mr. Platt is a New York State-licensed professional engineer with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
	Jeff Porter is IT Infrastructure Director at Fairfax County, Virginia. He helps lead the “most technology progressive county in the United States”. Since 2002, Mr Porter has contributed to a massive overhaul of Fairfax County’s IT infrastructure. These initiatives, ranging from security management and IT compliance to e-discovery and Green IT, have saved the county millions of dollars. Previously, Mr Porter spent 13 years in the US Air Force, providing IT support to various European initiatives. He has won many industry awards and speaks regularly at industry events. Mr Porter attended the University of Maryland while in the US Air Force.
	Michael Powlison is IT Project Leader at Parker Hannifin Corporation, where he focuses on enterprise IT infrastructure projects that originate on the Windows Server platform. With an emphasis on improving efficiency, Mr Powlison’s recent projects include enterprise Active Directory consolidations, global deployment of System Center Configuration Manager, and improving disaster recovery/business continuity methodology. He is currently working on reducing business costs though robust power management capabilities within the Windows Desktop and Server environments. Mr Powlison formerly worked in the ISP/Web Services and the digital content and media creation sectors, and as an IT consultant to Fortune 500 businesses.
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	Dr Amir Radmehr is currently a member of technical staff at Innovative Research (Tileflow). He has more than 10 years’ experience in developing engineering software products in the field of mechanical engineering. In the past seven years, he has concentrated in improving the cooling performance of data centers. He has used both measurements and computational modeling to address and resolve the cooling challenges in data centers. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and has published more than twenty papers.
	Neil Rasmussen is Chief Innovation Officer of APC by Schneider Electric. He founded APC in 1981, and in 2007 Schneider Electric acquired the company and formed the Critical Power and Cooling Services (CPCS) Business Unit, which includes the APC and MGE UPS Systems brands. Until February 2007, Mr Rasmussen served as Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Officer of American Power Conversion. His current research is focused on next-generation high efficiency data centers. He holds 17 patents related to data center architecture and has published more than 50 papers. Mr Rasmussen has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Vince Renaud, PE, is Managing Principal and Tier Certification Authority for Uptime Institute Professional Services. Mr Renaud co-authored numerous Tier Program publications and has 24 years of experience ranging from planning, engineering, design, and construction to start-up and operation. Mr Renaud received his BS in Civil Engineering from the Air Force Academy and an MS in Engineering Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
	Ralph Renne is the Director of Site Operations-Workplace Resources for NetApp. Mr. Renne is currently the Director of Site Operations for NetApp, responsible for the energy budget and critical infrastructures of their Data Centers located at their Sunnyvale Headquarters site. Previously, Mr. Renne served as the Director of Facilities for Exar Corporation. Prior to employment at Exar, he worked for the Experimental Facilities Department at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - SLAC. Mr. Renne is a Certified Facilities Manager (CFM). He is a licensed C10 Contractor and a principal partner/co-founder of Facilities Dynamics, Inc. Mr. Renne has over 25 years of Facilities industry experience, having a wide range of experience that includes new corporate campus development to major energy and data center projects.
	Bradford (Brad) Roberts is Power Quality Systems Director for the Power Quality Products Division of S & C Electric Company, which specializes in low- and medium-voltage power protection systems. He has worked for more than 35 years in the design and operation of critical power systems, and began as a systems reliability engineer in the Apollo Lunar Module Program. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the US Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Committee, and has published more than 40 technical papers and articles. Mr Roberts is a registered professional engineer and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.
	Simon Robinson is Research Director, Storage at The 451 Group. He specializes in identifying emerging trends and technologies in storage management and enterprise software, specifically applications, middleware and systems management. He has also coauthored 451’s Special Reports on the storage virtualization, blade server and distributed applications markets. Previously, Mr Robinson was a reporter with VNU’s Internet IT news service and Senior Reporter and Deputy News Editor at Computer Reseller News in the UK. He also worked on the city desk at the UK’s Press Association. Mr Robinson has a degree in Economics from the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
	Dave Rotheroe is Senior Technologist, IT Data Center Strategy, Design, and Engineering at Hewlett Packard (HP). As a senior level technologist in HP IT, Mr Rotheroe is responsible for cross-functional strategy, engineering, and implementation for HP global IT data centers. With a unique combination of strong research and development, IT, and facility backgrounds, he drives new IT and facility technology into the data center from a holistic view – including facility, network, storage, backup and server implementations. His key areas of focus are: meeting continuously changing business requirements; increasing utilization/efficiency/ROI; and maintaining 100% continuous availability.
	Greg Rottman is the Assistant Director, Engineer Research Development Center, Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center. Mr Rottman joined the Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) team as a civil engineer in 2000 with over 30 years of experience in engineering, IT, and project management. Mr. Rottman has worked with Tektronix as a system analyst and has served in the US Army Corps of Engineers in various capacities. Mr. Rottman received his BS from Texas Tech University and is a graduate of the Department of the Army CP18 Leadership Development Program and the Department of the Army Management Staff College, Sustaining Base Leadership and Management Program.
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	Dr Winston Saunders is Director of Power Technology Execution in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation where he leads the DCG Initiative on Power and Energy Efficiency. Before joining Intel's Data Center Group, he held management and development positions in Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group. Prior to Intel, Dr. Saunders worked at Caltech and EPFL. Dr. Saunders holds a BS from the University of Washington and a PhD in Physics from the University of California-Berkeley.
	Jason Schafer is Senior Analyst, Datacenters at Tier1 Research. He has 14 years of experience in mission- critical facilities, including service in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, and as a data center commissioning specialist for Lee Technologies, where he managed data center projects for customers such as the US Army, the US Patent and Trademark Office, Verizon, Comcast and Interactive Data Corporation. Mr Schafer was also Lee Technologies’ technical training manager. Mr Schafer studied Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is a certified infrared thermographer, and qualified as a commissioning process provider at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
	Dana Robbins Schneider is Northeast Market Lead, Sustainability Services at Jones Lang LaSalle, within its Project and Development Services. She specializes in energy performance optimization and LEED certification for new and existing buildings and portfolios as well as commercial interiors. Ms Schneider leads a team implementing a whole-building energy retrofit of the Empire State Building, based on an analytical model for maximizing energy and environmental value per dollar spent, which she was instrumental in developing. Ms Schneider also manages energy and sustainability aspects of data center projects across the country, as well as LEED certification assignments in the Northeast.
	Rick Schuknecht, Vice President - Operational Sustainability at Uptime Institute Professional Services, has more than 14 years experience on Critical Environment management with Fortune 100 corporations. He is currently involved in defining the concept of Operational Sustainability related to a data center’s ability to achieve or exceed its design requirements and parameters. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Principal at EYP Mission Critical Facilities, where he oversaw the integration of the Chicago office during the acquisition of the company by HP. Mr Schuknecht is a 1971 graduate of the US Naval Academy Navy professional classification in: operational logistics, command and control and personnel management.
	John Scumniotales is Vice President (VP) of Engineering at Verdiem, where he leads the company’s creation of enterprise energy management software for a broad range of IT devices. Prior to joining Verdiem, Mr. Scumniotales was the VP of Products at Serena Software where he led teams that created Agile Project and Portfolio Management products for their Fortune 100 customers and was responsible for creating Serena’s first Software as a Service (SaaS) product. Mr. Scumniotales also held various senior technical and management roles at Rational Software (now a division of IBM). Mr. Scumniotales received his BS in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire.
	Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh is Global Head of Energy and Sustainable Technology at Thomson Reuters. He is responsible for energy efficiency and sustainability across the Markets division, including Data Centres, Servers, Storage, Network and Desktop. He previously held a variety of roles at BT, including Head of Data Centre Strategy. Mr Singh aims to advance energy efficiency principles and to work across traditional boundaries to achieve ‘holistic’ efficiency. He is a lead representative for Global Climate Change Policies - UK CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. Mr Singh holds a BSc in Computer Science and Business Management from the University of Birmingham.
	Jim Smith is Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty Trust, where he oversees data center development, the company’s efficiency and green strategy, and power procurement and energy management. In the past four years, Mr. Smith and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 300MW of UPS capacity on over 60 datacenter projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry’s first LEED Gold certified data center and the UK’s first BREEAM certified Excellent datacenter. Mr. Smith has a BS in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008.
	Brent Smolinski is an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company’s Business Technology Office in Atlanta. Before joining the Firm, Brent was Vice President at Wachovia Investment Bank, where he led the implementation of a factor simulation and valuation framework used in measuring market, specific, and credit risk across the investment bank’s credit and fixed income derivative portfolios. He has also held technical and leadership positions for SAS, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and several high-tech start-ups, including founding his own venture-backed company. Mr. Smolinski is involved in the firm’s infrastructure, high tech, and risk management practices and manages an initiative at McKinsey to help clients improve management of their data center assets and reduce their IT carbon footprint.
	Amy Spellmann is President of Optimal Innovations and has 20 years’ experience in IT capacity planning and performance engineering. She has helped hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies manage their IT infrastructures and improve end-user response times. One of her specialties is coordinating with IT and business partners to ensure service level agreements are met cost effectively. In 2008, Ms Spellmann founded Optimal Innovations, a company that aims to save information technology dollars by reducing IT and data center power consumption. It focuses on green capacity planning and cloud computing, extending traditional capacity planning and performance engineering best practices to include power and cooling.
	Fred Stack is vice president of marketing for the Liebert precision cooling business of Emerson Network Power, where he has held various executive marketing positions since joining the company in 1995. Stack is responsible for developing new precision cooling product development roadmaps that reflect evolving market needs and incorporate new technology. These roadmaps are the foundation for his team's development of new products and application engineering tools to fill gaps in data center infrastructure. Stack is currently the chairperson for the ASHRAE Technical Committee TC 9.9. He also has more than 10 years of experience through positions in technical marketing and sales. Stack holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Tulane University and a master's degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University.
	John Stanley is a Research Analyst for Eco-Efficient IT at The 451 Group, specializing in data center efficiency. Previously Mr Stanley was a project manager and researcher at the Uptime Institute, where he worked with Institute founder Ken Brill on data center efficiency publications and original research. He has also prepared Institute contributions to industry input for US Department of Energy data center efficiency initiatives and has worked in the energy efficiency consulting practice at Rocky Mountain Institute. He holds an MS degree from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in physics from North Carolina State University.
	John T Steele, Applications Engineer Section Manager-UPS Division, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.
	Ben Stewart is the Senior Vice President of Facilities Engineering of Terremark, where he leads the facility team which engineers and maintains power generation, distribution and cooling system operations for data centers. Mr. Stewart has 25 years of military experience as a Commander in the US Coast Guard. In his previous position as a Coast Guard engineering program officer, Commander Stewart’s responsibilities included engineering design, international equipment installation and secure telecommunications system management.
	Dr Robert (“Dr Bob”) Sullivan is Senior Consultant at The Uptime Institute. He joined in 2000 after 32 years with IBM’s Storage Systems Division in San Jose. He originated the concepts now known as hot and cold aisle cooling and his pioneering work in computer room environments, especially in the area of cooling and air flow, has had a major impact on the industry, as has his work on the diagnosis and solution of conductive contamination problems in computer rooms. Dr Sullivan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MS and PhD in Applied Mechanics from Stanford University.
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	Bruce A. Taylor, a career-long print, broadcast and Web journalist, has been writing, editing, publishing, and conference providing on information technology topics since the very early ‘80s. He is founder emeritus of PopTech, an annual 3-day global meeting in Camden, Maine, of people, interested in the intersection of cultures and technologies in all fields. In his 30-plus year career in computing-related journalism, he has covered mainframe computing, minicomputing, client-server, expert systems and artificial intelligence, personal computing from pre-MS-DOS platform specific all the way to Web 2.0. He was launch editor/publisher of Professional Computing and HP Professional. Among other titles, he served as Editor in Chief of Computer Graphics World and the founding principal and editor/publisher of Imaging (and Document) Management World, and Knowledge Management (KM) World and producer of their companion conferences and trade expositions.
	Michael Terlizzi is Executive Vice President, Operations at Telx. He is responsible for facility construction and the day-to-day operations of Telx’s Facilities. Before joining Telx in 2002, he was Director of Network Planning and Engineering for Network Plus, where he was responsible for the design, deployment and management of their long-haul and metropolitan networks as well as carrier hotels and ILEC co-location facilities. Mr Terlizzi has also held technical management positions at ATandT and WorldCom/MFS. He holds a BS degree from the State University of New York at Albany.
	Jeffrey Thomas, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ark Continuity Limited, has over 25 years senior management experience in IT, Property, Media and Logistics in the UK, Europe and US. In 2000, he founded Ark Continuity, which has developed a portfolio of high integrity data centre solutions in the UK, with solutions focusing on sustainability without compromising security or availability. Mr. Thomas is also Chairman and principal equity partner of Hartham Park Plc, a business services company providing office accommodation and services. Previously Mr. Thomas was founder and principal shareholder of the Endata Group Limited in 1988, which was acquired by The Peak Technologies Group, Inc, in 1994.
	Brad Thrash is Global 3-phase UPS Product Manager at GE Digital Energy’s Power Quality business. He has more than 25 years’ experience in GE power generation and power quality businesses, and has taken leadership roles in application engineering, service engineering, sales and product management. He is also a member of the IEEE and ASME. Mr Thrash has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer.
	Pat Tiernan is Executive Director of Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a global consortium chartered to reduce the energy used in computing equipment, and President of Sustainable Results, an advisory and consulting firm. A 20-year technology veteran, Mr Tiernan joined HP in 1995, served in each of the businesses and held executive positions in sales, marketing, product development and operations. His most recent role was Vice President of Sustainability where he developed and ran the company’s global programs garnering many awards. Before HP, he helped launch a networking and software company, and managed a global device business with an industrial technologies company.
	Jack Tison is Vice President of Technology for Panduit Corp. He is chartered with leading the company into new technologies and applications that enable business agility, application availability, and system reliability while reducing operating and capital expense for Panduit’s customers. He joined Panduit in 1983 and has held positions ranging from Chief Engineer of Corporate RandD to Division Manager of Network Systems. He holds five patents. His expertise has been directed towards bringing Panduit to the forefront of Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based infrastructure solutions. Mr Tison is a graduate of Bradley University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Technology.
	John Tuccillo serves as the Vice President of Global Industry and Government Alliances for APC by Schneider Electric, where he is responsible for building collaborative technology and business alliances with key industry leaders as well as policy and standards bodies in the variety of markets served by the company. Previously Mr. Tuccillo held the position of Director of Data Center Systems, where he led a team of systems engineers, application engineers, product management and marketing professionals focused on delivering interoperable infrastructure and management systems.He currently serves and Chairman of the Board and President of The Green Grid.
	W. Pitt Turner IV, PE, is Executive Director and Senior Tier Certification Authority for the Uptime Institute. Mr. Turner has personally guided the construction of billions of dollars in client site infrastructure investments, including major data center projects for United Parcel Service, Depository Trust, Hewlett-Packard, Kmart, State Farm, Texaco, and Wells Fargo. Prior to his consulting work, Mr. Turner was Senior Project Manager for Pacific Bell’s Fairfield Data Center, where he was responsible for concept development, design, construction, and start-up for a 200,000 sq.ft. facility. He is also a co-author of the Institute’s Tier and Operational Sustainability research reports, among others.
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	Dr Kenneth Uhlman is the Director of Data Center Business Development for Eaton Corporation, where he is responsible for Eaton's Electrical global data center strategy and a liaison for Eaton IT. Previously, he has held leadership roles at GE, Siemens, and Schneider Electric. He holds three US patents, is a published author and has been honored with many industry awards. His degrees include a doctorate in Organizational Development from the University of Phoenix and a BSEEE from North Dakota State University. His dissertation was titled, "Corporate transformations and collaborative partnerships in mission critical facilities". He is a licensed Professional Engineer in California.
	Tony Ulichnie is the Program Director for the Uptime Institute’s Site Uptime Network-North America, where he is responsible for planning, facilitation, benchmarking, abnormal incident reporting and analysis, and overall program success. Mr. Ulichnie brings over 35 years of IT experience in the financial, outsourcing and manufacturing industries in the US, Great Britain, and India to his role as Program Director. His experience of building and managing data centers directly applies to the challenges of today’s power and cooling issues brought about by the stressing of Moore’s law. Mr. Ulichnie holds a degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of North Texas and is ITIL and Six Sigma certified. He has published research reports and opinion pieces for the Uptime Institute, the Data Center Journal, and IT SMF (Service Management Forum) USA.
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	Dr Werner Vogels is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision: to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon’s customers on a global scale. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked at Cornell University researching the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has written many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making cloud computing a reality. Dr Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
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	Anthony Wanger is President and Founder of i/oData Centers, LLC, where directs the company’s strategic affairs, handles acquisition activities, manages relationships with the company’s utilities and telecommunications carriers, and oversees the company’s marketing, HR and legal functions. Prior to his involvement with i/o, Mr. Wanger co-founded and managed Sterling Network Services, LLC (SNS), a leading enterprise co-location services provider. Prior to SNS, Mr. Wanger was Senior Vice President at Sterling Partners, a prominent private equity firm, where he oversaw a variety of investments and transactions for the firm. Mr. Wanger graduated with a BA in Political Science from Emory University and a JD from the Boston University School of Law.
	Dr Herman Wiegman is Lead System Engineer at GE Energy Storage Technologies. He originally joined GE in 1990 as a power electronics research engineer, and re-joined GE after his PhD studies in 1999 as a power system research engineer with a specialty in energy storage systems. Dr Wiegman has recently worked on integrating Li-Ion energy storage into vehicles and grid-level utility applications. He now serves as a lead system engineer for the newly formed GE Energy Storage Technologies business in Schenectady, NY.
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	Traci Yarbrough is Director Product Marketing, Data Center Software Solutions of Emerson Network Power. A 17-year veteran in the software and technology industries, Ms. Yarbrough's responsibilities include product positioning and messaging, go-to-market planning and industry/ competitive analysis for all of the resource management products and services. Prior to joining the Aperture business of Emerson Network Power, Ms. Yarbrough held executive positions at The Advantage Group, a software company specializing in infrastructure monitoring products, where she managed channel relationships and partnerships.

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