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Symposium 2011 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.
	Mark Acton is Program Director of the Uptime Institute Network-Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Mr Acton also serves as Datacenter Specialist for Tier1 Research, Uptime Institute's sister company. In his 20 years in the IT industry, Mr Acton has specialized in the field of data center operations, concentrating on the delivery of business-critical services from highly reliable, world-class 24x365 datacenters. Mr Acton was previously part of Dell's Infrastructure Consulting Services (ICS) business as a Global Solutions Architect and was a Consultant for Intel Solution Services, providing subject-matter expertise and consultancy in the broad field of data center management and operations. He was also a VP of Microsoft Service Delivery for Exodus, and a Director of Datacenter Operations for Digital Island.
	Eric Adamson is the National Sales Manager for Mee Industries and has 15 years experience in building humidification systems.
	Rob Aldrich is a Senior Manager for Cisco's Efficiency Assurance Program as well as Principal Energy Services Architect and energy efficiency expert at Cisco. Mr Aldrich is currently focused on working with customers, partners, and Cisco engineering to develop new solutions to global energy challenges. Mr Aldrich is the co-author (with John Parello) of IP-Enabled Energy Management: A Proven Strategy for Administering Energy as a Service.
	Mark Ascolese is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Power Analytics (formerly known as 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.
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	Don Beaty founded DLB Associates Consulting Engineers in 1980. The firm is active globally and has provided services for datacom facilities in over 35 states. DLB has designed all Google-owned data centers worldwide. Beyond DLB, Mr Beaty was Chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee TC 9.9 (mission critical facilities, technology spaces, & electronic equipment) from its inception through June 2006. Mr Beaty's interest in educating the industry about ASHRAE being the unbiased source of data center cooling material has resulted in his publishing over 50 technical papers and articles. He also is a frequent presenter on the subject, having presented in 26 countries on the topic of data center cooling. Mr Beaty is currently Publications Chair of TC 9.9. Previously, Mr Beaty served on ASHRAE TC 90.1 (energy standards committee) from 1993 to the present, serving in various roles and as Vice-Chair.
	Christian Belady is the General Manager for Datacenter Advanced Development in Microsoft's Global Foundation Services (GFS), where he is responsible for driving research and advanced development of technologies for broad scale adoption in Microsoft's data centers. GFS supports over 200 Microsoft online services for consumers and businesses worldwide. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Hardware Architecture in the Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research where he led a team that explored hardware opportunities related to the future of client plus cloud computing. He started his career at Microsoft in 2007 as Microsoft's Principal Infrastructure Architect for Global Foundation Services to improve both efficiency and cost in their online services infrastructure. Mr Belady's responsibilities have included driving initiatives for sustainability in the data center and infrastructure space, and he was one of the key architects for the company's next-generation modular data centers.
	Joseph Bondi is the Director of Business and Solution Strategy at Ni2. As a member of the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, he consults with customers, vendors and industry analysts on operational and energy issues associated with complex data center environments. Mr Bondi brings vision and practical solutions in the design and development of innovative software that bridges the gap between the IT, Facilities and Network domains. Mr Bondi acts as an Industry Leader for Pacific Crest Mosaic, bringing perspectives on technology adoption in the enterprise. Prior to joining Ni2, he worked at BMC as Business Unit Field Director and Solutions Architect.
	Steve Bowes-Phipps is the Data Centers Manager at the University of Hertfordshire and has over 17 years of operational systems management experience, specifically managing data centers since 1996. After a stint managing data centers and IT operations in the UK and Ireland, he joined ambitious web hosting company GlobalCenter who were expanding from the US into Europe. Sitting on the senior management team, Mr Bowes-Phipps oversaw the building of five data centers in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich and Paris until Exodus Internet bought the company in 2001. Mr Bowes-Phipps has authored and is driving forward a world-leading methodology for sustainable ICT processes.
	Mark Bramfitt is a consultant promoting successful engagements between the information technology and utility industries by focusing on energy efficiency and demand-side management opportunities. Mr Bramfitt is leveraging his expertise and knowledge gained at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company, where he was responsible for designing and delivering programs and services to help PG&E's customers manage their energy use in the high tech, biotech and healthcare industry segments. He was also charged with strategic engagement with the high tech industry with regard to technology evaluation, and new opportunities related to "smart grid" deployment. Under Mr Bramfitt's leadership, PG&E developed a utility industry-leading program portfolio for data centers and information technology infrastructure, including training and education, technical support, and financial incentives and rebates. For 2010 through 2012, the programs for data centers alone are expected to deliver over 25 megawatts of peak energy demand reduction, with a program budget of over $50 million.
	Rami Branitzky is Senior Vice President of Sustainability Management and Strategy at SAP, where he is responsible for defining and executing SAP’s sustainability strategy – both for SAP’s internal performance and for its solutions, which enable customers to achieve greater sustainability performance. He also ensures the execution of the sustainability strategy across all functions within SAP. Mr Branitzky represents SAP on boards of multiple thought leadership organizations such as the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Churchill Club and SD Forum. Mr Branitzky has an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Mr Branitzky also served in the Israeli Defense Forces, Infantry Communications and Electronics branch.
	Kenneth G. Brill is the Founder of Uptime Institute and the Uptime Institute 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 is needed by corporate leaders charged with business performance, profitability, and sustainability.
	Kevin Brown is Vice President, Data Center Global Solution Offer Management for APC by Schneider Electric. Mr Brown is an experienced industry professional in both the IT and HVAC industry. He has 13 years experience at APC in a variety of senior management roles, most recently as Vice President, Marketing for the Data Center Solutions, Services & Software Line of Business. Previously, Mr Brown served as Director of Market Development at Airxchange, a manufacturer of energy recovery ventilation products and components in the HVAC industry. Mr Brown holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.
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	Jakob Carnemark is Senior Vice President, Mission Critical Center of Excellence, at Skanska USA Building's Mission Critical Center of Excellence. He understands the unique requirements of data centers and the security, safety and logistical concerns of working in and around operating facilities. Mr Carnemark's focus on data center energy efficiencies and the conservation of natural resources has saved his clients millions of dollars in energy costs. His 27 years of construction experience enables him to provide meaningful and accurate insight to a project. Mr Carnemark’s in-depth knowledge in the construction of data center facilities and his unique perspective of energy management make him a valuable resource for Skanska’s clients.
	Steve Carter is Vice President for Digital Infrastructure Services at Uptime Institute, where he focuses on capacity planning in the context of flexible data center design, cloud, containers, and innovative infrastructure methodologies.
	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.
	Orlando J. Castro is Program Manager – Data Center Facilities Services and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) at Kaiser Permanente. He has over 20 years of experience in the facilities engineering industry. As an ITIL-certified professional, Mr Castro chairs the Critical Facilities Council, governing the facilities operations at Kaiser Permanente’s National Data Centers, including programs such as Global Risk Management, Abnormal Condition Reporting, Critical Awareness and Critical Facilities Work Authorization. He is a founding member of the “KeeP IT Green” team and is a member of Kaiser Permanente’s National Environmental Stewardship Council, a group dedicated to environmental sustainability across all disciplines within Kaiser Permanente.
	Julio Cezar De Conti is in charge of Superintendency of Engineering and IT Infrastructure for Itaú Unibanco. Mr Cezar De Conti has worked with critical mission in infrastructure over 26 years and is also responsible for the Green IT team. He has a Master's degree in electrical engineering from UFRJ and an MBA in Banking Management by the Vanzolini/USP Foundation.
	Herman Chan is Director of Power and Management Solutions Business Unit at Raritan. 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. Mr Chan has previously held management positions with Fountain Technologies and Panasonic. He holds a degree in Economics from Rutgers University.
	David Chetham-Strode is a Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Team member at HP and currently manages the world wide data center power solutions business for HP’s Industry Standard Servers team. Since joining HP in 1996, Mr Chetham-Strode has served as a Senior Systems Engineer, an Engineering Program Manager, and a Technical Product Manager with a strong focus on rack, power, and cooling solutions and has published multiple white papers and articles. In 2002 he was responsible for the design and development of HP’s ENSA on Wheels project, the first self contained, fully mobile data center allowing HP to bring its expertise in data center design directly to customers across North America.
	Raj Chudgar is a Principal in SunGard Consulting Services’ energy practice. Mr Chudgar has over 15 years of experience in the electricity market and utility business focusing on wholesale energy development, operations, IT, custom solution development and market strategy. He has published numerous articles around utility business solutions and trends. With his background he has had numerous client projects covering all aspects of system development life cycle development, market strategy development, ISO development, and wholesale energy business solutions. Some of Mr Chudgar's roles have included director of Texas Market Redesign (Nodal), project/program senior manager, business manager, lead business analyst, lead IT system analyst, testing and QA manager, and wholesale energy market trainer.
	Phil Collerton is Director at Thirlmere Solutions, a professional consultancy specializing in data center operations, standards, training and staffing, data center consolidations and establishment of data centers in new markets and geographies. For the past decade, Phil served as Executive Vice President, Operations, for European colocation provider Interxion, building and operating 26 data centerss across 11 European countries. Prior to joining Interxion, Phil set up the European operation for Exodus Communications Inc, building 4 fully redundant data centers in the process. Phil initially worked as a software engineer with BIS Banking Systems, before moving to a customer service and operations role with BIS, and then subsequently to Tandem Computers.
	Renee Collins is a Project Engineer for Lee Technologies Services, a Schneider Electric company. Ms Collins has eight plus years of experience in the design and construction industry including direct responsibilities with managing and documenting LEED Commercial Interiors (CI) projects. Prior to joining Lee Technologies, Ms Collins was an Interior Architect and designed multiple mission critical and commercial interior spaces for Time Warner Cable, Oracle, Harris Corporation, Thales and the U.S. Government. Ms. Collins received a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2002. While at Virginia Tech, she was also a four-year scholarship athlete.
	Craig Compiano is Chief Executive Officer at Modius and an entrepreneur with extensive management experience and a track record for developing successful businesses. He brings to the Company and the industry, 30 years experience in Business and Systems Development, Operations, and Finance. Mr Compiano's prior accomplishments in software development for large commercial and public sector clients during his tenure at Andersen Consulting led to his current concentration on operational systems and performance analytics for data centers, and the founding of Modius.
	Carl Cottuli is Vice President of Product Development and Services at Eaton 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.
	Rob Coupland is Chief Operating Officer at TelecityGroup, responsible for the operational aspects of the business, including overall management and delivery of the new build program, systems strategy and business development. He has over fifteen years' experience in the telecommunications and technology sector. Prior to joining TelecityGroup in early 2007, Mr Coupland was Head of Product Marketing at NTL Business, where he was responsible for the entire business services portfolio. Before joining NTL, Mr Coupland spent 12 years at Cable & Wireless in senior product management roles with a particular focus on business networks, hosting and convergence markets.
	Rick Cuevas is a Senior Real Estate and Workplace Manager at Yahoo!. His current responsibilities include driving Global Sustainability and Energy Efficiency to over 66 office locations in 33 countries. Mr Cuevas works closely with Yahoo’s Director of Climate and Energy Strategy, and also aligns with Yahoo’s Green Team leaders to create Sustainable work environments and influence change in Yahoo owned and leased office spaces. With over 30 years of combined experience in the HVAC Industry, Automated Building Controls and Faciities Management, Mr Cuevas continues to promote Sustainability and implement Energy Efficiency projects to contribute to the company’s overall carbon reductions.
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	Scott A. Davis is the Executive Vice President of Data Center Operations for DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (DFT). He oversees the management of DFT’s portfolio of eight active Data Centers which currently comprise over 900,000 square feet of raised floor computing space and 155MW (mega-watts) of critical UPS power capacity. Mr Davis has over 25 years of experience specialized in the engineering, design and operation of high-reliability facilities. Mr Davis earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
	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).
	Akhil Docca is a Senior Engineer at Future Facilities where he manages all engineering activities related to applications, consulting and technical support in North America. Prior to joining Future Facilities, Mr Akhil had worked at Flomerics, Inc. as an applications engineer where he was responsible for pre-sales, Technical Account Management and business development. Prior to Flomerics, he had worked at Dell as a Product Thermal Engineer, where he designed and deployed thermal solutions for Small Form Factor (SFF) desktops.
	Andrew Dominey is Solutions Engineer at 1E and an IT efficiency expert and has extensive experience in server virtualization and a wide range of Microsoft enterprise solutions. As a solutions engineer at 1E, Mr Dominey helps global enterprises rapidly deploy energy and cost-saving solutions across complex data center environments to generate significant ROI. He also helps to manage the product direction and development of 1E’s NightWatchman Server Edition, leveraging his deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure, power management and server efficiency. Prior to joining 1E, Mr Dominey served as a systems administrator for Cobweb Solutions, Ltd., and held various engineering roles of increasing responsibility at World Class International (WCI).
	Brendan Doorhy is Director of Software Systems Research for Panduit Corporation, where he leads the team responsible for developing differentiated, software centric solutions for the data center, industrial automation and connected building industries. Prior to his current position within Panduit, Mr Doorhy was responsible for engineering development in the Managed Network Systems Division and Rack Systems Division, where he contributed to launching Panduit’s IT Cabinet product line. Mr Doorhy has also held positions with Red Fusion Studios, a product development consulting firm, and Motorola. He has 16 patents and has written on the topics of ruggedized electronics design and data center physical infrastructure management.
	Tom Dorwart is Enterprise Technology Center Manager at Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear and has held a variety of leadership, management, and strategic roles in the network, server and services side during his 25 years of service. Mr Dorwart currently serves as the company’s Enterprise Technology Center Manager in which he is responsible for all aspects of the corporation’s critical space; from design to operation and includes their corporate locations, retail stores and distribution centers. Mr Dorwart recently had the opportunity to employ his technical expertise creating a new technology center space from the ground up to complement the company’s existing data center space, all of which supports the world’s largest catalog, retail and internet outfitter in the world.
	William Dunckel is Energy Solutions Manager in the Customer Energy Efficiency division of Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). Mr Dunckel’s team is dedicated to self generation, demand response and energy efficiency in hi-tech facilities with a focus on laboratories, clean rooms and data centers. This team has brought PG&E world-wide recognition as the leading utility company in high-tech energy efficiency.
	David W. Dunn is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for CoreSite. He focuses on ensuring customer satisfaction, managing CoreSite’s products and sales engineering, developing CoreSite’s corporate strategy, and finding new business development opportunities. In addition to his current role, Mr Dunn has also served as CoreSite’s head of sales and as an individual sales contributor. Since 2004, he has been directly involved in sourcing, negotiating and closing data center agreements totaling nearly $500 million in contracted value. Mr Dunn graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics and is currently an MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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	David Edgar is a Computing Facilities Engineer in the IT Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
	Vello Ehvert is the President and Founder of Ehvert Engineering, an integrated engineering, construction and systems integration firm that specializes in building mission critical facilities. Ehvert Engineering provides a unique combination of engineering, general contracting, systems integration, relocation, monitoring and support services for data centers and other technical facilities. Mr Vello’s unique strength comes from his knowledge of real estate, construction, engineering and IT systems and how to integrate these disciplines into facility and data center environments.
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	Andrew Fanara is the Director of Sustainability at OSIsoft whose primary role is to assist OSIsoft’s diverse customer base achieve their corporate sustainability objectives by leveraging their use of the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of real-time data and events. In addition, Mr Fanara plays an active role helping to manage the relationships of its growing number of data center clients. Previously, Mr Fanara spent 15 years at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where he was responsible for engaging the high tech community to raise the visibility of the energy efficiency opportunities in data centers.
	Clifford Federspiel, PhD, is President and CTO of Federspiel Controls and is a leader and visionary in the field of energy management. He has authored more than 50 papers on topics ranging from HVAC and CRAC control, to indoor air quality and cooling optimization. Mr Federspiel is the recipient of the Ralph G. Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award from ASHRAE, and holds numerous patents in the field. Mr Federspiel began his career in R&D at Johnson Controls after receiving his BSME from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, and his SMME and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Andrew Feldman is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at SeaMicro. Mr Feldman was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Crosslink Capital and at US Venture Partners. Before that, he was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Force10 Networks, where he was responsible for marketing, product management, and business development. Prior to joining Force10, Mr Feldman was Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Corporate Development for Riverstone Networks (Acquired by Alcatel) from inception through IPO. Prior to Riverstone, he served as Senior Director for Worldwide Product Marketing and Product Management at Cabletron Systems. He joined Cabletron through its acquisition of YAGO Systems. At YAGO, Mr Feldman wrote the business plan and then as Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development, led marketing and strategic alliances. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.
	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.
	Thomas Fisher is a former Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corp Fellow at Staples who currently works for Salesforce.com as a Sustainability Analyst. Mr Fisher has worked on efficiency projects his entire career, from operations consulting to energy management. Mr Fisher feels that energy efficiency is one of the best ways to kick-start sustainability initiatives, and he enjoys working with stakeholders to integrate sustainability into the core fabric of organizations. Prior to his data center work with EDF Climate Corps and Staples, he worked with the Goodwill to help them find energy efficiency opportunities in their retail stores, processing centers and warehouses in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr Fisher is a recent graduate of Presidio Graduate School with an MBA in sustainable management.
	Justin Fitzhugh is the VP of Engineering Operations for the Mozilla Corporation. He responsible for all Mozilla’s production and corporate infrastructure, including serving the Firefox product to more than 400 million users. In addition to Firefox distribution, his team designs, implements and supports the infrastructure for one of the largest open source organizations in the world. Prior to Mozilla, Mr Fitzhugh managed Macromedia’s global data center environment.
	William Forrest is a Partner with McKinsey & Company’s Business Technology Office, where he serves as one of McKinsey's experts on IT and Operations strategy development and implementation. He works with CIOs to develop innovative strategies and to manage complex change programs such as transformational outsourcing/off-shoring, major systems development and infrastructure architectures. Additional areas of specialty include design and build of carbon and energy-efficient IT systems. He is one of the leaders of McKinsey's Climate Change Special Initiative and works with product/business management of technology organizations. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr Forrest was a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting in their financial services technology practice, where he helped lead and establish their infrastructure management group. Before that he was Director of Business Development at AAC Associates, a Department of Defense and White House technology provider in Washington, DC.
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	Chris Gaskins is an experienced Technology Development Executive with 20 years in information technology. Mr Gaskins joined RF Code from APC. There, he oversaw the Security and Environmental Product Line, including product management/product marketing/engineering. Prior, he was director, NetBotz service and support. There, he built and managed a WW service/support support team. Prior to NetBotz, he was VP, worldwide development, AppGate Inc., a VPN software company, where he built/managed a global software engineering organization with additional responsibilities for customer support and product management. Mr Gaskins has also served in various engineering, development and product management roles with Tivoli Systems/IBM.
	Bob Gilligan is Vice President of GE Energy Services' Digital Energy business and an officer of the General Electric Company. Mr Gilligan is leading the charge to bring GE to the forefront of smarter grid technologies. Mr Gilligan began his GE career in 1990 with the Healthcare business where he held a series of assignments in service operations and global product management. In 1996, Mr Gilligan joined GE Industrial Systems business, where he held several leadership positions including general manager of the automation technology solutions business. In 2004, Mr Gilligan joined GE Energy as the general manager of T&D and was promoted to his current role in 2008. In 2007, Mr Gilligan received a GE Chairman's Award from Jeff Immelt for his leadership of the T&D business. Chairman's awards recognize and reward stellar accomplishments in performance, initiatives and leadership.
	Kfir Godrich is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for HP Technology Services (TS). In this role, he drives the technology roadmap for TS and providing thought leadership that strengthens HP’s position in the field of technology consulting and support services. Mr Godrich also focuses on green initiatives including creating high efficiency data center topologies supporting “green IT” and is a messenger of the sustainability concept worldwide. Mr Godrich has been co-innovator of designs of modular Data Centers such as HP’s FlexDC and alternative energy solutions. Lately he was co-awarded the patent of DC-Based Data Center Power Architecture.
	George Goodman is the Executive Director for Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), leading the efforts of this broadly based consortium. Started by Google and Intel in 2007, CSCI is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations. The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWF's Climate Savers program which has mobilized over a dozen companies since 1999 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good business. The goal is to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computer's power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state. Prior to working with CSCI, Mr Goodman led technology and product development in several Information and Computing Technology (ICT) companies, creating products ranging from full computer systems through communications products to branded consumer audio offerings, at Intel, Sequent, Xerox, and Bell Labs.
	Jim Gowen holds the complementary roles of Vice President of Supply Chain Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer for Verizon. As Verizon’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Mr Gowen is responsible for setting the direction of the company’s sustainable growth strategies and for reducing its carbon footprint. In his supply chain role, Mr Gowen leads centralized operations and the global customer premises equipment program with responsibility for more than $2.5 billion in annual through-put and half a billion dollars in annual inventory.
	Peter Gross is Vice President and General Manager of HP Critical Facilities Services, delivered by EYP MCF. 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.
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	Jon Haas is a Director in Intel’s Eco-Technologies Program Office, part of the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. The Data Center Group creates Intel architecture server products and server industry technologies while driving new server and workstation platform capabilities. In support of that mission, he manages technical and marketing teams that work with the industry’s key energy efficiency technology forums and vendors, in developing and bringing to market, complimentary products based upon new capabilities and technologies for server platforms, enterprise computing and data centers. Mr Haas is the Chair of the Green Grid Technical Committee as well as the Chair of the Data Center Design Guide workgroup and participates on the Green Grid Board of Directors. Mr Haas has authored and co-authored many papers for the Green Grid and participates in the organization’s Liaison Committee.
	Mike Hagan is Lee Technologies’ Executive Vice President. He is responsible for championing Lee Technologies’ brand recognition as the leader in the design, construction, maintenance and operations of optimized mission-critical facilities. As a 25-year industry veteran, Mr Hagan brings a customer-centric approach to sales and marketing devoted to facility sustainability solutions. Lee Technologies facility sustainability solutions deliver critical facilities that provide maximum performance through modular design, energy efficiency and operational maintainability with total cost of ownership and ROI in mind. Mr Hagan holds a BS in manufacturing engineering from Miami University.
	Billie R. Haggard is Senior Vice President of Data Centers at CoreSite. In this role, Mr Haggard is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, facilities staffing and ultimately uptime, reliability and energy efficiency of our data centers. He has also served as our Vice President of Facilities. Mr Haggard studied Engineering at Louisiana State University and Louisiana Tech University. Additionally, Mr Haggard held positions of increasing responsibility focused upon nuclear power technology and maintenance during his 14-year career as an officer in the United States Navy. Mr Haggard was recognized with four Naval Achievement Medals and numerous letters of commendation stemming from his work and teachings concerning highly sensitive, mission-critical facilities.
	Steve Hassell has been President of Avocent since 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.
	Kevin Heslin is the Editor of Mission Critical magazine, the only publication devoted to data center and backup power applications. He is an award-winning editor with more than 25 years experience in the editorial departments of business-to-business and technical publications. During his career, he has written and spoken about topics including energy cost and reliability, electrical safety, and data centers. He holds the BA in Journalism from Fordham University and the MS in Technical Communications from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
	Michael Hirahara is the Vice President of Global Real Estate, Facilities and Services at Brocade and the has global responsibility for real estate strategy, design and development, building systems design and operations, as well as all support services to provide productive work environments. Mr Hirahara has an extensive industry background, supporting business strategies in Fortune 500 companies for over 20 years. Mr Hirahara joined Brocade in 2006 to support the planned growth associated with the acquisition of McDATA. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
	Tuan Hoang is the Director of Mechanical Engineering for Lee Technologies Services, a Schneider Electric company. Mr Hoang has eight years of experience in the design, construction, and integration of mission critical mechanical systems. In 2005, Mr Hoang joined Lee Technologies and formed the Design and Engineering department for the Design Build sector. The focus of the engineering team is to provide innovative, energy efficient, sustainable, and cost effective designs that can be easily deployed and commissioned. Prior to joining Lee Technologies, Mr Hoang designed mechanical systems for the United States Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers; where system failure was not an option. Mr Hoang received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University located in Norfolk Virginia. Mr. Hoang is also a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in over 13 states.
	Dan Hopkins is the Vice President of Data Center Operations, Electrical Systems for DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc., (DFT) where he oversees the electrical systems management of DFT’s portfolio of active Data Centers which currently comprise over 900,000 square feet of raised floor computing space and 155MW (mega-watts) of critical UPS power capacity. Mr Hopkins has over 25 years of industry experience, ranging from utility supply engineering to the operations and management of high reliability facilities. Mr Hopkins earned a BEE in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
	Mark Howard is Operations Director, Network and Systems Management for Alegent Health. His primary duties include management of the data centers, network, server, storage and telephony teams providing service to Alegent’s 9,000 employees and 1,300 physicians. Mr Howard participates and directs the development of the team’s roadmaps that focus on core technologies including data center operations and practices, Cisco data and voice, virtualization strategies, backup and disaster recovery strategies and technologies.
	Henry Hsu is Director, Power Management Accounts at Raritan and, as a product architect and energy efficiency consultant, works with data center clients to assess, plan, and recommend methods of optimizing their power utilization and distribution. In over 9 years with Raritan, Mr Hsu has surveyed scores of raised-floor infrastructures in all types of industry verticals. He earned a BA in Economics and Computer Science; and an MS in Industrial Engineering, each from Stanford University.
	Paul Hsu is Senior Electrical Engineer at Facebook and has 25 years of experience in various high tech industries including data center design and construction, semiconductor fabs, aeronautic/aerospace, and utility substations. He joined Facebook in early 2011 as a Senior Electrical Engineer and has been managing the design and construction of new data center facilities, energy efficiency retrofits of existing sites, and providing operations support to the data center management team. Prior to joining Facebook, Mr Hsu was the Director of IBX Electrical Engineering at Equinix, where he was responsible for the design, construction and commissioning of highly reliable and energy efficient co-location data centers. Mr Hsu is a registered professional electrical engineer and a senior member of IEEE.
	Kevin Humphries is the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure Services for FedEx Services. In this role, Mr Humphries is responsible for setting technology direction as well as providing data center, network and field infrastructure support. Mr Humphries is also responsible for the technology systems used to capture information important to package movement including scanning systems, label strategies, and bar code formats. Other key areas of responsibility include Business Alignment, Customer Technology Services, and IT systems quality assurance.
	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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	Tony Iams is Senior Vice President and Senior Analyst at the IT research firm Ideas International, where he leads research on system software, focusing on the leading virtualization technologies and operating systems in use today. In addition to delivering in-depth reviews of the functional tradeoffs between Linux, UNIX, Windows, and other operating systems, Mr Iams has performed detailed assessments of the key virtualization technologies in use today, including virtual machine platforms, resource management software, I/O virtualization technologies, systems and service management software, and cloud computing approaches.
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	Brian Johnston is Chief Technology Officer at QTS and provides technology leadership for IT infrastructure, product development and data center design. Mr Johnston has a unique combination of design, technological expertise and vast experience in delivering IT solutions. With more than 17 years of experience, he has worked in various engineering positions for several of the nation's top technology companies. Mr Johnston's experience working with large organizations and systems around the world, affords him an intimate understanding of the importance of performance and capacity through analytics, monitoring and reporting, making him invaluable to the QTS organization. Prior to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Mr Johnston was Chief Operations Officer of QTS.
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	Jim Kennedy is currently Director of Data Center Operations and Construction for RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, where he is responsible for day to day operations, engineering, and construction and is overseeing the build out of another RagingWire data center facility of over 220,000 sq. ft. He has also completed eight major energy efficiency and green computing programs, saving over 4,000,000 kWh in the last year and reducing annualized average PUE from 1.80 to 1.47. Prior to joining RagingWire in Sacramento, Mr Kennedy served in the United States Naval Nuclear Submarine Force as a Lieutenant Commander on several fast attack submarines. Mr Kennedy received a BS in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
	John Kilinskis is a Regional Engineering Sales Manager at Cummins Power Generation, specializing in data center projects. He has been involved in a variety of standby power generation and prime power generation projects from conception to start-up. Prior to joining Cummins Power Generation, Mr Kilinskis held various positions at GE's Zenith Controls division. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and is a licensed Profession Engineer in the State of Illinois. Mr Kilinskis has served as an instructor at EGSA for generator paralleling systems and transfer switches, and is an active IEEE member.
	Keith Klesner is a Consultant for Uptime Institute Professional Services. He performs audits, custom strategic-level consulting engagements, and Tier Certifications. Mr Klesner's career in critical facilities spans 12 years and includes responsibilities ranging from planning, engineering, design, and construction to start-up and operation. Mr Klesner has guided design, and infrastructure upgrades of data centers, mission critical facilities, and multiple major facility renovations. In the role of Chief of Engineering, Mr Klesner has provided leadership and strategic direction to maintain the highest level of infrastructure mission support. In the role of consultant, Mr Klesner has provided planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities for the Department of Defense and the State Department worldwide. His early career includes six years as a US Air Force Officer.
	Wouter Kok is a Strategic Data Center Consultant in the Global Data Center Practice at Deerns Consulting Engineers. Mr Kok has been involved in many data center projects throughout the world and in every sector, from defense to financial, telecom and collocation. He has laid the foundation for the GC-DC concept (Green Cooling for Data Centers; patent pending) and the Chameleon concept (patent pending). He successfully combines a high level technical background with a sharp mind to improve, innovate and realize data center infrastructures. His post-graduate degree in management consultancy leverages on the development of the global data center practice within Deerns.
	Christopher Kurkjian, PE, is the Chief Technologist for HP Critical Facilities Services. As a professional mechanical engineer, he has 25 years experience in the design and construction of complex air conditioning, plumbing, and fire protection systems for mission critical facilities. Mr Kurkjian contributes to strategic initiatives, R&D projects, and quality assurance programs to maintain EYP MCF’s position as the leader in HVAC technology for high-reliability environments. He is also current on the activities of HP labs and supports their development of products that support cooling of today’s high density environments. Mr Kurkjian has co-authored and presented several ASHRAE-published papers on air-conditioning design for data centers, as well as written and contributed to several white papers.
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	Todd LaCognata is the Global Solutions Manager for Data Centers and is responsible for leading and setting the strategic direction for Panduit’s Smart Data Centers portfolio. Mr LaCognata has over fifteen years experience in Information Technology working for such companies as Ernst & Young, Capgemini and CNA Insurance. He offers a comprehensive understanding of network, server and storage infrastructure applications relevant to Data Center strategy and operations. Mr LaCognata holds a Bachelors degree in Operations Management and Information Systems from Northern Illinois University.
	Aaron Lake is Technical Director of the Infrastructure Development group at AOL, which is the engineering and operations group responsible for te has led the architecture, engineering, and operational automhe automation and tooling of AOL’s internal infrastructure. During the course of his leadership tenure at AOL hation of AOL’s internal infrastructure platforms. Mr Lake's development efforts to automate a global footprint of close to a hundred thousand server and infrastructure devices include the development of an incredibly robust configuration management and asset automation platform, a global metrics and monitoring platform, and the eventual culmination of these systems into the AOL Cloud platform.
	Matt Lane is President at Geist and has over 10 years of experience working in data center monitoring and product development. He brings a wide range of experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and manager. Mr Lane is currently the President of Geist Intelligent Facilities which provides customized software for data center monitoring.
	Gary Lauterbach is Chief Technology Officer at SeaMicro and brings 30 years of experience in the computer industry to the company. Most recently, at AMD, Mr Lauterbach was an AMD Fellow and one the lead architects defining AMD's next generation high performance X86 processor. Prior to AMD, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems for 12 years where he was Chief Architect of the Ultra-SPARC III and Ultra-SPARC IV microprocessors. At Sun Laboratories, he was Chief Architect of the DARPA HPCS peta-scale project where his innovative super computer architecture enabled Sun to win $50 million in funding from DARPA. Mr Lauterbach holds more than 35 patents.
	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 Uptime Institute Symposium 2011. 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.
	Panagiotis Lazaridis is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of L&M Engineering. L & M is an engineering company specialized in design of electrical installations, hydraulic installations and air conditioning systems design for office buildings, industrial plants and mission critical areas. Mr Lazaridis is responsible for over 300 data center projects in Latin America.
	Daniel Lee is a PE and LEED© AP with over 7 years of mission critical HVAC consulting experience at Glumac in San Francisco, and Environmental Systems Design in Chicago. His project experience includes schematic design through construction administration of data centers, from small facilities in high rise buildings to large greenfield developments. He joined Facebook in spring of 2010 as a Datacenter Mechanical Engineer and has been managing the design and construction of new data center facilities, energy efficiency retrofits of existing sites, and providing operations support to the data center management team.
	Patrick Leong is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Gigamon. He is the key designer of a series of successful telecom and network monitoring products that have generated substantial revenue over the years. Prior to joining Gigamon, he was Principal Engineer at Ciena (starting with Cyras before it was acquired), where he lead the engineering efforts in developing the company’s metro data products. Mr Leong also performed technical due diligence for Ciena in acquisition and partnering. Before Ciena, Mr Leong was Manager of High Speed Products at the Sniffer Division of Network Associates, where he was in charge of the development of WAN and Gigabit Ethernet Sniffers. A physicist by training, Mr Leong has a track record of taking products from inception to market in a timely manner using a board range of technologies. He holds more than 10 patents and has a PhD in Applied Physics from Columbia University.
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	Ken Male is the Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of TheInfoPro and leverages over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. In 2001, Mr Male developed TheInfoPro’s unique research methodology – which allows for direct communication between the most elite IT decision makers worldwide – after recognizing the importance that market intelligence and advisory services play in both making sound decisions and understanding the conditions of the information technology competitive landscape. Prior to founding TheInfoPro, Mr Male held distinguished positions with IT providers and market research firms including Gartner, Giga, Jupiter, DEC and EMC. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events and has provided industry briefings and commentary to many business and trade news organizations such as Barron’s, Forbes, CNBC, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, Investor Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal.
	Kevin Malik is Chief Information Officer of i/o and previously served as Vice President, Global Enterprise Applications, for Starwood Hotels and Resorts. During his 10-year tenure at Starwood, Mr Malik oversaw Finance and HR systems in over 20 different countries and was a key advisor on data center and infrastructure trends.
	Chris Malone, PhD, is a Thermal Technologies Architect and part of Google's Data Center Research and Development team, which is responsible for developing Google's next-generation data centers. Dr Malone has authored over a dozen refereed technical papers, and has been granted over 100 US and international patents. He is a voting member of the ASHRAE "TC9.9 - Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces & Electronic Equipment" technical committee, which produces data center industry guidelines. Dr Malone received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
	Michael Manos is Senior Vice President of Technologies at AOL. Prior to AOL, Mr Manos was Vice President of Service Operations at Nokia, where he was 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.
	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.
	Martin McCarthy has served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The 451 Group since June 2001. In October 2001, he led the management team in a buyout of the firm from its UK-based financial backers. Mr McCarthy sold his last operating company, IDD Enterprises LP, to Dow Jones & Company Inc in 1998. Since that time, through Bone Hollow Ventures he has assisted emerging technology, media and interactive services companies around the world, combining angel investing and strategic counsel for CEOs and directorial boards.
	Robert McFarlane is Principal Data Center Consultant in the international firm of Shen Milsom & Wilke and is regarded as one of the leaders in this challenging and fast-changing field. Mr McFarlane has spent more than 35 years in communications as both a consultant and lecturer. He currently teaches the Data Center Facilities course in the Marist College IDCP program, has been the program's Commencement Speaker, and has also lectured in Telecommunications at NYU. He publishes extensively, is a popular speaker at numerous seminars on modern Data Center design practices, and has recorded an on-line lecture at Marist on “Green Data Centers”.
	Darren McGann is the Sustainable IT Leader at KPMG with more than 15 years of IT leadership experience. Mr McGann leads KPMG LLP's internal Sustainable IT initiative. Strategically aligned with the firm’s Living Green Committee, he provides expertise to a cross-functional team for the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly business processes, policies, and technologies. Mr McGann’s responsibilities include recommending and executing energy-efficient measures, evaluating emerging technologies, and linking financial to environmental results. He also assists KPMG’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services team and their client’s Sustainable IT initiatives.
	Kevin Meagher is Chief Technology Officer at Power Analytics. As such 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. He also holds a Master Captain's License from the US Coast Guard and has a current commission in the US Merchant Marine.
	Terry Moses is the Chief Executive Officer at Systecon. Mr Moses has 40 years experience in the HVAC industry and has spent the last 16 years at Systecon. Mr Moses previously served as President, National Sales Manager and Regional Sales Manager. Mr Moses’ current focus is promotion of the modular central utility plant model to the commercial market, including Mission Critical applications. He currently holds several patents for hydronic devices used specifically for improving functionality in modular plants. Mr Moses received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University and previously served as President of the Cincinnati ASHRAE chapter.
	Michael Mosman is Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for CCG Facilities Integration. CCG is an Engineering/Architectural firm located in Baltimore, Maryland dedicated to the programming, design and commissioning of high-technology and mission-critical facilities. Mr Mosman is a graduate of Washington State University in Electrical Power Engineering, a registered Professional Engineer in twenty states and a licensed master electrician.
	Dave Mulholland is Vice President of Marketing and Service at Power Distribution Incorporated (PDI). 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.
	Juan Murguía is currently IT Manager at CEMEX, responsible for the data center operation and the delivery of global services for the company. In his 15 years of experience, Mr Murguía has led many different projects including data center consolidations, server virtualization and energy efficiency. In the last year at CEMEX Global Data Center, a facility with 7,700 IT sq ft hosting 300+ applications, he implemented a green IT program improving DCiE from 37% to 68%.
	Bruce Myatt, PE, is a Registered Mechanical Engineer, Founder of Silicon Valley's Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT), and Director of Mission Critical Facilities at M+W US. He has over 25 years of engineering consulting experience working with critical facilities such as data centers, clean rooms semiconductor fabs, nuclear power plants, and DOE's nuclear weapons production facilities. Mr Myatt has recently led work for LBNL and PG&E related to data center energy efficiency benchmarking, technology demonstration, new construction and retrofit design assistance, and retro-commissioning.
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	Rajesh Nair is the Chief Technology Officer at AdaptivCool. As an inventor and entrepreneur, Mr Nair contributes technical leadership to the company in defining business opportunities, developing technologies, and new business models. He has developed several products that are considered firsts in the industry and holds many patents in the airflow, thermal and sensing industry.
	Dean Nelson is the Senior Director of Global Data Center Services for eBay, Inc. and now owns Data Centers, Networking, Security and CDN. He is responsible for Strategy, Architecture and Operational functions of eBay’s mission critical data center infrastructure. Mr Nelson is also a core member of the eBay Green Team. Mr Nelson has been in the high tech industry for 21 years in technical roles ranging from Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, IT, Real Estate and Mission Critical Operations. Mr Nelson spent 17 years at Sun Microsystems, where in his final position of Senior Director of Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services, he was responsible for managing Sun’s multi-billion dollar global technical infrastructure portfolio.
	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.
	Ron Noblett is Vice President of Infrastructure & Storage at HP, where he is responsible for providing innovative data center infrastructure products including rack, power, and thermal solutions that extend from traditional deployments to Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs). In addition, his Infrastructure & Storage team is responsible for the development of Smart Array storage solutions that integrate across the HP’s enterprise portfolio. Mr Noblett has been at the company for 23 years. His earlier positions with HP included VP Business Strategy and Engineering, VP Server Storage and Infrastructure, Director of Server Storage Engineering, Enterprise Computing Group, Director of Engineering for the Enterprise Storage and Options Division, and Director of Hardware Development for the Networking Products Group for the Systems Division. Mr Noblett began his career with Compaq Computer Corporation as a Development Engineer for Desktop and Server products; and received his BSEE from Texas A&M University.
	Shawn Novak is a Principal Consultant of the Digital Infrastructure Services at Uptime Institute, where he is one of the primary developers of the new Digital Infrastructure Roadmap service. Mr. Novak has experience on a global scale working with enterprise clients on their strategic roadmap services. Focusing his efforts on the systems, applications, MEP infrastructure and IT infrastructure, he is able to create strategic modeling with an realization of CAPEX and OPEX savings by using capacity utilization to optimize the data center environment. His career in Critical Facilities spans over 12 years and includes experience as a program manager of strategic planning engagements and trusted advisor for implementation of recommended approaches.
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	Charles M. (Chip) O’Donnell is the Director – Smart Consumption business for Siemens Industry, Inc. – Building Technologies Division. He is responsible for leading the application of smart grid and demand response technologies throughout the United States, as a part of a complete Siemens business portfolio of smart grid technologies for utilities, commercial markets and industry. Mr O’Donnell is an energy industry veteran, with over 20 years of experience in the efficient use of energy in our economy, from building energy infrastructure to the identification of energy reduction strategies for businesses, utilities, and commercial firms. He has designed, developed and implemented the energy infrastructure for several Tier 4 data centers, and has hands-on experience with both purpose-built and co-located data center architectures.
	Wilson Yoshio Okamoto is IT Manager at Bradesco with 26 years of experience in Software Engineering in Mainframe and Open Platforms, with a Mathematics degree at FASP (Brazil) and MBA at FGV (Brazil). Currently, he is responsible for Software Engineering Teams in Open Platform, a group with 70 collaborators, with several expertise like Windows, Linux and Unix, Exchange, SQL, DB2, WebSphere, and Virtualization solutions. Mr Yoshio Okamoto is also working on Cloud Computing for improving the delivery time for his business demand adding the big challenge in IT on his company, what is ensuring Availability and Security.
	Evan Owen is the Marketing Manager at PDI. With more than 15 years of technology, industrial and data center marketing experience, he has developed a sharp eye for leveraging cutting edge strategies to effectively detail complex products and services and their associated benefits. With a background in Internet marketing, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Social Media and Branding Mr Owen focuses on product and service education and marketing outreach at Power Distribution, Inc. (PDI).
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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.
	Shawn Patrick is the Director of Global Engineering and Management Services at Savvis, Inc. For the past 11 years he has been involved in the design, commissioning, and operation of mission critical data centers. After obtaining a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1988, Mr Patrick joined The Boeing Company, where he engaged in electrical design and became certified as a Reliability Engineer. He joined Exodus Communications in 2000, later acquired by Savvis, where he became a data center manager and later Director of Facilities over three of Savvis’s enterprise-level data centers. For the past two years he’s managed and developed a core group of engineers and project managers supporting Data Center Operations on a global scale.
	Lane Patterson is Chief Technologist for Equinix and runs network architecture and development projects for the company, including 10GigE switching platforms supporting BGP4 peering, ROADM-based metro optical services, emerging VoIP and SIP peering, and experimental IPv6 and Multicast exchanges. Prior to joining Equinix, Mr Patterson was Director of IP Network Management Systems for GlobalCrossing, Inc., where he contributed to tools development, event reporting, traffic measurement, and trending for a large-scale IP backbone and content distribution centers. Mr Patterson received a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
	Nicola Peill-Moelter, PhD, is Director of Environmental Sustainability at Akamai Technologies and oversees the strategy and execution of environmental initiatives across the company, including carbon management, energy efficiency and waste reduction, employee engagement and customer-awareness. Prior to this Dr Peill-Moelter held positions as senior product manager and principal solutions engineer. She has over fourteen years experience in high-tech communications including sales, marketing and innovative product design, development and management. Dr Peill-Moelter is a member of the Greenhouse Gas Experts Network, the GreenBiz Executive Network, the World Economic Forum Energy Efficiency and Standards & Metrics working groups.
	Ray Pfeifer is the Senior Vice President of Business Development at SynapSense Corporation, a wireless sensor instrumentation company located in Folsom, California. Mr Pfeifer has over 20 years of experience in the design, construction and commissioning of research labs, biotech and semiconductor manufacturing plants and data centers. He is recognized as a technology development and thought leader in the IT industry. In addition to his technical leadership on data center energy assessments, energy efficiency retrofits and proof of concept projects using SynapSense’s innovative WSN technology his industry work includes: Co-Chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s data center energy efficiency initiative; USGBC Data Center LEED Adaption Working Group Chair; facilitator for the CEC Data Center EPC project; participation in the development of the DOE DCPro assessment tools and serving on the steering committee for the DOE’s Certified Energy Practitioner program for data centers; and participation in the Chill Offs (I and II) to test and evaluate high density cooling systems.
	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.
	John Pflueger, PhD, is Dell's Principal Environmental Strategist. In this role, Dr Pflueger is responsible for driving Dell's strategy on issues around environmental sustainability – including energy, greenhouse gas emissions, materials of concern, material use/recovery/reuse, and water. Prior to this role, Dr Pflueger was Dell's subject matter expert on data center energy efficiency and managed initiatives to help customers improve the productivity of their computer systems and facilities. Since graduating from MIT in 1991 with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Dr Pflueger has spent 19 years in manufacturing engineering, product development, product marketing and product management roles in the high-tech industry. Dr Pflueger currently serves as a director for The Green Grid and as a participant in The Green Grid’s Technical Committee.
	Douglas Ping is a Principal Field Application Engineer at Vicor Corporation. Mr Ping works extensively with customers to design, develop, and implement power systems using Vicor power components. He received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts in 1991. Prior to joining Vicor in 1997, Mr Ping was employed as a Design Engineer of switching AC-DC power supplies at Resonant Power Technologies Inc. in Milpitas, California.
	Anthony J Pinkey is the Vice-President of Sales for LayerZero Power Systems, Inc. Born, raised and educated in New York City, he has held various sales management, product management and marketing positions in the power quality industry for the past 20 years. Mr Pinkey joined LayerZero in August of 2001 and holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the Nuclear Science Sequence from Manhattan College. He has written numerous articles for trade publications and frequently speaks at IEEE meetings. Mr Pinkey has represented the United States playing rugby in 10 countries; golf and sailing are his current interests.
	Antonio Piraino is Vice President and Research Director at Tier1 Research, 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.
	Joe Polastre is Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Sentilla and an entrepreneur and technology executive with an outspoken opinion on energy strategy, policy, and trends. Winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 award and named one of Business Week’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs, Mr Polastre often speaks about energy management and the the use of information from the physical world to make energy efficiency decisions. Before joining Sentilla, Mr Polastre held software development and product manager positions with IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.
	Steven A. Press is the Executive Director – Data Center Facilities Services at Kaiser Permanente and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM). Mr Press has been a leader in data center facilities for more than 25 years, focusing on mission critical data center design, single-point failure analysis, maintenance and operations. Mr Press manages Kaiser Permanente’s national data center portfolio, providing the platform for real-time personalized health care to millions of Kaiser Permanente members. As an ITIL-certified professional, he has incorporated continuous availability principals into every facet of data center facilities. He has a passion for "greening" KP's data centers. Mr Press has been instrumental in organizing Kaiser Permanente’s “KeeP IT Green” teams, with a wide range of environmental sustainability achievements.
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	Amir Radmehr, PhD, is currently a member of technical staff at Innovative Research Inc. He has over twelve years experience in developing engineering software products in the field of mechanical engineering. In the past nine years, Mr Radmehr 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. Mr Radmehr holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has published over twenty papers.
	Neil Rasmussen is Senior Vice President of Innovation, IT Business, 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.
	Shruthi Rao is a Sustainability Consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her focus is helping corporations become more environmentally sustainable through green initiatives, energy performance transformation, and project alignment with business objectives. She is currently contracting for The Boston Globe, one of the leading dailies in the US, helping to reduce their carbon footprint. A 2010 recipient of the Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps fellowship, she worked at Akamai Technologies to identify cost savings and carbon emission reductions from its data centers across North America. Ms Rao has eight years of experience in IT and sustainability, with about half of it in Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group. She has earned an international MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona, and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering
	Vince Renaud, PE, is Vice President and Managing Principal, Professional Services, of Uptime Institute. 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.
	Emily Reyna is a Project Manager in the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Corporate Partnerships Program. The EDF's Climate Corps Program embeds trained MBA students in companies to identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and reduce emissions. Ms Reyna was a Climate Corps fellow in EDF's inaugural Climate Corps class in 2008 when she was placed at Cisco Systems to analyze energy efficiency opportunities in their rack and bench labs. Before coming to Environmental Defense Fund, she was an analyst at Ford Motor Company, where she started the company's Green IT group focused on sustainability within Ford's IT department. Ms Reyna is the co-author of Hybrid Organizations: New Business Models for Environmental Leadership, a book that uncovers best-in-class case studies of organizations that show how their organizational models can achieve both market-and mission-driven goals.
	Chad Ritsema is Director of Professional Services, Americas, for Panduit Corporation, where he leads the operations and delivery of advisory services that help clients optimize their Layer 1 physical infrastructures for Data Centers, Connected Buildings, and Industrial Automation applications. Prior to joining Panduit Professional Services, he held a variety of Product Management and Applications Engineering leadership roles specializing in fiber optics, rack systems, and DC power solutions. Mr Ritsema holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and is a US Department of Energy-certified Data Center Energy Practitioner.
	Rafael Rivero is the Director of Sustainability and International Supply Chain at Verizon. Mr Rivero is devoted to creating strategic plans to reduce CO2 emissions, energy and fuel consumption. He also develops short and long term strategy for Supply Chain to support Verizon’s Global business portfolio. In 2002 he joined Verizon International. Mr Rivero was a recipient of the Verizon Excellence Award in 2004. Mr Rivero holds an electrical engineering degree from the University Metropolitana-Venezuela and an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Dallas. He has also obtained a marketing certification from Southern Methodist University.
	Bradford Roberts is the 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. Mr Roberts has over 35 years experience in the design and operation of critical power systems, ranging from single phase UPS systems to medium voltage applications. He began his engineering work as a systems reliability engineer in the Apollo Lunar Module Program at Cape Kennedy.
	Jacob Rosenberg is the Senior Director of AOL's Content Services group, the engineering and operations team responsible for the successful operation of AOL's media products, local and mapping products, and search services enjoyed by over 100 million users. He has been involved in the operations, engineering, and architecture of hundreds of AOL products including the AOL Portal, the Blogsmith CMS, AIM and ICQ, AOL Search, Patch, Mapquest, Truveo Video Search, XDrive, and Bebo. Mr Rosenberg holds a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York and an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business.
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	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.
	Paul Schlattman is Vice President of the Mission Critical Facilities Group at ESD and is responsible for business development, project administration, strategic planning of data center, financial trading, and other information technology related projects. His responsibilities include business development, program management, information technology merger/acquisition consulting, planning, data center consolidations, and project coordination. Prior to ESD, Mr Schlattman founded Nexgen Building Solutions, and was also Senior Vice President of the Information Technology Group at McClier Corporation. Over his career, Mr Schlattman has consulted within the data center sector in Europe, Pacific Rim, North America and South America. In addition to his international accomplishments, Mr Schlattman is an internationally renowned speaker and published within numerous articles and publications within the industry.
	Rick Schuknecht is Vice President and Global Network executive at the Uptime Institute. In the past year, he coordinated defining the concept of Operational Sustainability related to a data center's ability to achieve or exceed its design requirements and parameters. He has more than 15 years experience on Critical Environment management with Fortune 100 corporations. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Principal at EYP Mission Critical Facilities, where he oversaw the integration of the Chicago office during into Hewlett Packard. Mr Schuknecht is a retired senior Naval Officer and graduate of the US Naval Academy.
	Hank Seader, PE, is Vice President for Data Center Development at the engineering firm Swanson Rink, Inc. At Swanson Rink, Mr Seader's current role is working with clients to establish meaningful data center capacity and performance requirements during the initial project design phase. His 20+ years' experience spans programming, design, and operation of data centers for both the public and private sectors, throughout the United States and internationally Mr. Seader is an original co-author of the Uptime Institute Tier Standard: Topology. Mr Seader completed his BS in Civil Engineering at the US Air Force Academy and MS at Stanford University.
	David Shaw serves as Senior Vice President of Operations, North America of i/o. Mr Shaw brings over 30 years of experience including global data center operations, engineering management, and information technology services. Prior to joining i/o, Mr Shaw led the greenfield build and operational implementation of a 42,000-square-foot data center to support electronic medical records and critical patient care systems for 5,000 hospital beds and services across the U.S. Mr Shaw has extensive data center operations and management-related experience in the Healthcare, Finance, Defense, Government and IT manufacturing industries with region-specific expertise in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland and the Middle East. He received in-depth specialist Data Center and Operations training from IBM and the Ministry of Defense.
	David Shepard serves as Senior Vice President of i/o ANYWHERE® for i/o. Mr Shepard is directly responsible for interfacing with i/o’s largest prospects and customers to ensure the services and benefits that i/o ANYWHERE® delivers, as the premier modular data center solution for enterprises, governments and service providers, are effectively communicated and executed. Mr Shepard joined i/o through acquisition in December 2008, as the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Exacent, LLC, a provider of on-demand, enterprise-grade managed infrastructure. Mr Shepard graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.
	Sergio Siqueira is Senior Technical Consultant at HP Brasil with 26 years of experience in Engineering and IT Infrastructure Consulting, with an Electrical Engineering degree at FAAP (Brazil), a MBA on Sales and Management at ESPM (Brazil) and a Financial Market Specialization at FGV (Brazil). Currently, he’s been developing projects evaluating datacenter infrastructure based on HP’s Converged Infrastructure Maturity Model, analyzing the Total Cost of Ownership/Return on Investment and providing technological evolutionary scenarios to the customers on “Converged Infrastructure” or Infrastructure as a Service datacenter models. Mr Siqueira has also been working on Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing projects using processing-intensive GPGPU and CPU computational grids for the financial market.
	George Slessman is Chief Executive Officer of i/o and has been an executive in the data center industry for the past nine years and a technology leader and entrepreneur for more than 14 years. In this brief period of time, he has founded and exited several technology businesses, inventing and delivering disruptive technologies for the benefit of enterprise customers and creating over a billion dollars of value for his investors.
	Amy Spellmann is Principal-Digital Infrastructure Services at Uptime Institute where she is one of the primary developers of the new Digital Infrastructure Roadmap service. Previously, Ms Spellmann served as President of Optimal Innovations. She has 20 years’ experience in IT capacity planning and performance engineering and 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, an Emerson Network Power company. In this position, Mr Stack is responsible for new product development roadmaps and oversees application engineering and product management. He has held various executive marketing positions with Emerson since joining the company in 1995. Mr Stack previously worked in technical marketing and sales for Rockwell International and several divisions of General Electric. Mr Stack holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Tulane University and an MBA 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.
	Matt Stansberry, Director of Content and Publications for Uptime Institute, has reported on the convergence of technology, facility management and energy issues in the data center since 2003. He launched SearchDataCenter.com in 2005 and managed that site and multiple other Tech Target properties as Editorial Director of the company's data center and virtualization media group. He is currently developing unbiased, actionable resources for data center owners and operators to improve data center management, address changing regulations, and to advise on new equipment and standards. Additionally Stansberry is responsible for expanding the Uptime Institute’s outreach to other industry organizations and assisting in the content development of events, such as the Uptime Institute Symposium, and a new series of multimedia presentations on pressing industry issues.
	Timo Stelzer is responsible for Green IT Solution Management to support SAP’s sustainability initiative. He manages co-innovation activities with SAP partners and works closely with SAP development and architects for reducing SAP’s solution carbon footprint. Additionally, Mr Stelzer supports SAP IT Operations to plan and manage the Green IT initiatives.
	Andrew Stokes is Chief Architect for Deutsche Bank’s Group Technology Information Enterprise Services (GTIES) division, where he is key to Deutsche Bank's IT and green strategies. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr Stokes held management and technical positions in Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse and BP.
	David Struhs is Vice President of Sustainability Strategy at C3. From 2004 to 2009, he was Vice President for Environmental Affairs at International Paper. Previously, from 1999 to 2004 he served as Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. From 1995 to 1999 he was Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Mr Struhs serves on the board of directors of the National Recycling Coalition and on the advisory board of the Global Environmental Leadership Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. He also serves, by appointment of the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, on the Federal Advisory Committee on Environmental Stewardship and the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology.
	Dr Robert Sullivan is widely recognized for originating the concepts now known as hot and cold aisle cooling and was with Uptime Institute as a senior consultant on computer and data center cooling challenges for more than 10 years following his career at IBM. Dr Sullivan's pioneering work in computer room environments, and especially in the area of cooling and air flow, has had a major impact on the industry. Dr Sullivan has been intimately involved in the diagnosis and solution of conductive contamination problems in computer rooms and is recognized as the leading authority throughout the world on the subject. He was part of the team that identified the phenomenon of zinc whisker contamination. He has also done testing and consulting in the area of seismic bracing of equipment and facilities, including co-authoring a paper reviewing a wide variety of equipment tethering techniques.
	Eric Swanson is the Data Center Manager at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) with over 20 years of progressive leadership experience within the Government of Canada. Mr Swanson's current responsibilities include managing a rapidly growing national data center, with a personal focus on improving the center’s resiliency and energy efficiency. Mr Swanson holds degrees in Computer Science and Arts from the University of Manitoba, and recently received a Master of Management Sciences degree from the University of Waterloo.
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	Bruce Taylor is the Executive Producer of Uptime Institute Symposium 2011. A career-long print, broadcast and Web journalist, Mr Taylor 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, was the founding principal and editor/publisher of Imaging (and Document) Management World and Knowledge Management (KM) World and was producer of their companion conferences and trade expositions.
	Jack Tison is Chief Technology Officer for Panduit. 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.
	Brad Thrash is a Product Manager at GE Energy’s Digital Energy Power Quality business, responsible for the 3-Phase UPS product line globally. He has over 25 years experience in GE power generation and power quality businesses with leadership roles in application engineering, service engineering and sales and product management. Mr Thrash has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer. He is also a member of IEEE and ASME.
	Michael Tresh is Director of Product Management for Viridity Software and for the past two years has been responsible for working with customers and Viridity engineers to develop data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software products that quickly, easily and accurately expose wasted server power in order to drive-up data center availability, efficiency and optimization. Prior to joining Viridity, Mr Tresh held the position of Director, Data Center Business Unit with Wright Line LLC, (acquired by Eaton Corporation) where he developed rack and airflow management products to increase energy efficiency and eliminate data center waste. Before Wright Line, Mr Tresh spent ten years at American Power Conversion Corporation (APC), on the device management team where he developed the communications tools for APC PDUs, UPSs and in-row cooling units. Mr Tresh holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan and is a student and proponent of the Pragmatic Marketing approach to product development.
	Jim Trout has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vantage Data Centers from its inception in 2010, bringing to bear over two decades of wholesale data center design and operational expertise to this first-ever next–gen data center company. Prior to Vantage, he served as Senior Vice President-Portfolio and Technical Operations, with full P&L responsibility, for Digital Realty Trust, a publicly held wholesale data center company. Mr Trout has held senior C–level positions in the data center vertical at Proferian, CoreSite and TeraSpace Networks.
	Denoid Tucker is Vice President of Technology for RagingWire Enterprise Solutions and is responsible for the strategic development and expansion of RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. and RagingWire’s subsidiary StrataScale’s entire service portfolio including the flagship hosting service, IronScale. Mr Denoid brings more than 20 years of experience in network systems architecture and deployment of large-scale IT environments, giving him a unique understanding of how to build innovative physical and virtual IT infrastructures for small business and enterprise companies with vastly different business models, he is also the chief architect of IronScale.
	W Pitt Turner IV, PE, is the Executive Director and Senior Tier Certification Authority for the Uptime Institute. From 1993-2005, he was a senior consultant and principal for Uptime Institute Professional Services (UIPS). In that role, he guided client investment decisions, data center design and construction projects, and site operations practices for well over 100 key clients. Since 2005, Mr Turner has served as the president of UIPS and since 2009, Executive Director of Uptime Institute. He is co-author of both the Tier Standard: Topology and Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability, in addition to numerous technical and management papers.
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	Paul Unbehagen is a Consulting Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent and an active member of the IEEE 802.1 WG . He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and L3VPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft and has several patents in communication protocols such as IS-IS and BGP. Previously, Mr Unbehagen has had a diverse background working not only in a vendor but also on live networks at a Tier1 Service Provider, ASP, US Military. Mr Unbehagen has 14 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Enterprise to Carrier.
	Tony Ulichnie is the Program Director for the Uptime Institute 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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	Nick Vaney is a Director at Red Engineering Design. He is a chartered mechanical engineer and an Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer with 25 years’ experience in mechanical and electrical services design. Mr Vaney has extensive experience of data centers design and implementation and his innovative approach to data center design has resulted in numerous best in class and a number of award winning data centerss. Mr Vaney’s project and design management expertise of large, complex fast-track developments has resulted in the successful delivery of many UK and international projects. He has been at the forefront of energy efficient and resilient data center design for the past 20 years. He designed the UK's first hotel to be cooled by seawater and recently completed the design, monitoring and commissioning of a new data center for Cap Gemini, using a revolutionary modular design solution which provides free cooling for more than 99% of the year.
	Markku Vieri is a Director at Tieto Corporation in Finland, where he is responsible for the data center services of the customers in financial sector. With 26 years in IT industry, Mr Vieri has an extensive background and experience on infrastructure services and especially data center services. Tieto hosts 20,000 servers in seven data centers. Tieto is the leading IT service company in Northern Europe, with over 17,000 experts, providing IT and product engineering services.
	Herb Villa is the Business Development Manager with Tate. Herb has more than 20 years of experience in the IT market, having been involved in all aspects of data center and system design, installation and operations. Mr Villa has also benefited from three unique vantage points – data center operator, manufacturer, systems integrator. He has put this knowledge to work for a variety of clients including Fortune 500, financial services, education, government and content and entertainment organizations.
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	Anthony Wanger serves as President of i/o Data Centers. In this capacity, Mr Wanger 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 (SNS), a leading enterprise colocation services provider (sold in July 2006). 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.
	Byron Washom is the Director of Strategic Energy Initiatives at the University of California-San Diego, where he leads the university's efforts to establish a highly innovative energy plan that will not only ensure that UC San Diego is able to meet both its current and future energy requirements in the most environmentally sustainable, cost-effective manner, but also serve as a premier example to institutions internationally. Mr Washom's previous achievements include eight technical world records for the conversion of sunlight to electricity while manager of technology and policy at a Fairchild Industries' advanced projects department. Mr Washom has been a key advisor on a wide range of clean energy technologies to the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, US Department of Energy, national laboratories, and numerous regulated utilities and corporations. He is a four-time Rockefeller Foundation grantee and Heinz Foundation grantee. In 2008 Mr Washom received the UC San Diego Community Leader Award for Sustainability and the R&D 100 Award for the 100 most outstanding innovations in the world.
	Mike Wills is Director of Facilities Management, Corporate Real Estate, BMO Financial Group and is responsible for facilities operations at BMO Financial Group including data centers, trade floors, contact centers, major office complexes, and the retail branch network. His accountabilities include the development of a highly complex infrastructure that is effectively and efficiently deployed and supported to ensure BMO's critical systems remain operational. Under Mr Wills' leadership, BMO has received industry-leading recognition, delivering 11 consecutive years of 100% IT component availability in its major data centers. Mr Wills has more than 30 years of IT and facilities management experience in the North American financial services sector and is internationally recognized for his thought leadership and knowledge in managing highly critical facilities.
	Frank Wolak, PhD, is the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Economics Department and the Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree from Rice University, and an SM in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. His fields of research are energy and environmental economics. He is the author of numerous academic articles on these topics. Dr Wolak is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Energy Institute in Berkeley. From April of 1998 to April 2011, he was Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee (MSC) of the California Independent System Operator. In this capacity, he has testified numerous times at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and at various Committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives on issues relating to electricity, environmental, and energy market performance and oversight.
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	Patrick Yantz is Senior Director of Modular Datacenter Engineering at SGI, where he is responsible for the vision, strategy, and scaling of the SGI modular data center business. He began his career in Silicon Valley as a server and network engineer in the hosting services space, participating in the data center evolution. Mr Yantz transitioned to Microsoft and spent 10 years in numerous realms from data center operations to architecting and engineering globally deployable modular data center systems for Microsoft. As founder of the ITPAC program, Mr Yantz piloted the world’s first modular data center requiring no chilled water, with outside air as the primary means of cooling. Mr Yantz also architected Microsoft’s first generation 4 modular data center, with the focus on delivering a low cost, low PUE, modular components while running on outside air and requiring no chilled water.
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	Mickey Zandi, Ph.D. is Managing Director, Consulting Services at SunGard Availability Services and is a recognized international expert in data center design architecture and infrastructure modernization. He helps clients address key issues such as: how to transform, consolidate and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) in the data center, and how flexible infrastructure impacts IT operations. Mr. Zandi also helps companies address why they should consider technologies and methods such as Green IT, Cloud, and Utility computing to enhance their IT business value and infrastructure initiatives worldwide

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