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	John Abbott is Founder and Chief Analyst for 451 Research, where he covers systems, storage and software infrastructure topics and over a 25+-year career has pioneered specialist technology coverage in such areas as Unix, supercomputing, system architecture, software development and storage. One of the cofounders of The 451 Group in October 1999, Mr Abbott ran analyst operations in the company's San Francisco office. He has been a principal author on many 451 Special Reports, including those on storage virtualization and blade servers – the first comprehensive surveys of either subject to be published. Mr Abbott began covering the technology sector in 1984, building on his previous experience as a technical author and direct involvement using mainframes, early PCs and Unix workstations. As a freelance journalist, he contributed to publications including Computing, Computer Weekly, The Financial Times and The Times. In 1987, he was appointed Editor of ComputerWire's weekly Unix newsletter, Unigram.X, and later became Editor of the company's daily Computergram International service.
	Tarif Abboushi is Vice-President of Data Center Infrastructure at NTT America, Inc. He has been involved in the evaluation, acquisition, design, construction, testing and commissioning, maintenance, operation and greening of mission-critical facilities for almost twenty years, either as a consulting engineer or with a data center owner/operator. Mr Abboushi holds a BSEE from Manchester University (UK) and a Master’s in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.
	Christy Abramson is a Technical Director at AOL, managing the Core Services Application Operations organization that is responsible for maintaining AOLs critical host systems, including Identity & Infrastructure Services, Billing, and Paid Services Operations. Ms Abramson also manages a team of Service Delivery Managers, who provide a communications and outreach interface among the various Operations, Engineering and Product groups. With over 15 years of Internet and telecom experience, Ms Abramson has also served as a Client Software Analyst at MCI Communications Corp and as a Product Manager at Cable & Wireless, supporting the product development teams on their consumer internal dial initiatives.
	Sunil Aladhi is a Data Center Technical Architect for HP's Enterprise Group, India Research and Development Labs, Bangalore, with 13 years of experience in the IT Industry. He worked closely with R & D engineers to reproduce defects and resolving them. He has in-depth knowledge on virtualization products and server architecture. He helped several customers as a Virtualization Evangelist in APJ region to implement virtualization solutions in their mission critical environments. He took up the role of a technical architect in the data center transformation team and is responsible for Virtualization and Cloud services. His areas of expertise are server and storage architecture, virtualization, cloud and datacenter technologies. Mr Aladhi is an engineering graduate specializing in Computer Science.
	Doug Alger is an IT Architect at Cisco Systems with more than 15 years of experience focusing on data center physical design, management and operations. He has managed about 100 data center projects, from all-new construction to substantially retrofitting existing facilities. Mr Alger produces the popular Data Center Deconstructed blog and has authored two books on data center design, Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business and Grow a Greener Data Center. (His third book, showcasing data center innovation, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2012.) He also helped write Cisco’s Global Data Center Strategy and Data Center Design Guidelines documents, which define the performance requirements and design elements for its compute environments.
	Dhesikan Ananchaperumal is the Vice President and CTO of CA’s ecoSoftware business unit focusing on DCIM, enterprise energy management, desktop power management and sustainability management. He is responsible for the overall strategy and approach, product management, development, quality assurance, customer implementations, and supporting engineering. A 23-year industry veteran with an expertise in IT and energy management, Dhesikan has published numerous white papers and articles and is a frequent speaker at data center and IT conferences. Prior to his current role, Dhesikan was involved with Emerging Technologies, Business Relationship Management and M&A activities for CA. Prior to joining CA, Dhesikan held various management and technology positions at Netegrity, Affinnova, AMS and Infosys Technologies. Dhesikan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Electronics Design Technology from the Center for Electronics Design Technology, India. Dhesikan also has ISC2-CISSP, Six Sigma and ITIL certifications.
	Rhonda Ascierto is a Senior Analyst in the Datacenter Technologies and the Eco-Efficient IT research practices at 451 Research, an international enterprise IT analyst firm. Ms Ascierto has been researching and analyzing at the crossroads of IT and business for more than 12 years. She focuses on data center innovation and energy management in data centers and across the enterprise, as well as on technologies that enable the efficient use of all resources and that help to minimize the environmental impact of business activity. Before joining The 451 Group, Ms Ascierto was a senior analyst in energy and sustainability IT at Ovum, a research firm. Previously, she had a successful career as an IT reporter and editor, mostly in Silicon Valley, at a number of well known and successful publications.
	Trey Austin is a Partner with Data Centers Delivered and concurrently serves as Director of Business Development for Epsilon Industries, responsible for sales in the Mission Critical business segment. Prior to arriving at Epsilon in June 2009, Trey worked as a Regional Engineering Sales Manager for Big Ass Fans, for TAS Packaged Central Plants as the Eastern Regional Sales Manager, for the Victaulic Company of America as a Territory Manager, and for the Trane Company in Commercial Equipment and System Sales. Trey is a member of the 7x24 Exchange, USGBC, and ASHRAE and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University. . When he is not traveling or working to reduce his golf handicap, you will probably find him supporting one of the LSU Tiger athletic programs.
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	Mark Bailey is a Senior Architect for Dell’s Modular Infrastructure Solutions group. He holds a mechanical engineering degree, an MBA, and has over 13 years of experience in the data center and computer hardware industry. He has led projects and engineered solutions ranging from IT hardware to modular data center design. His experience allows for a fully integrated perspective when architecting customer solutions. As an engineer and architect he has led many design projects for customers deploying modular solutions in various regions within the United States and around the world. Mr Bailey has experience in mechanical, structural, electrical, and controls solutions which are required in architecting, building, installing, and deploying data center solutions.
	Bruce Baxter is the Vice President of Operations for NxGen Modular. Mr Baxter has 30 years of experience improving the efficiency of field operations, production, safety, training and quality assurance. He oversees all of NxGen's current and future projects.
	Ron Bednar is the Director, Solutions Marketing, Liebert Business, Emerson Network Power. He focuses on programs to enable customers to easily configure and implement efficient and economical data center infrastructure. His responsibilities include product development, channel support, application engineering and tools development.
	Christiaan Best, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), is a former Senior Engineer at Bell Helicopter. His first startup, E-Forensics (Founding Partner), was acquired in 2005. Most recently he was the lead HVAC engineer at Microstaaq. Mr Best holds a BS and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
	Paul Bonaro is the Data Center Facilities Manager at the Yahoo! Data Center in Lockport, NY, since it opened in 2010. In this role, Paul is responsible for the development and deployment of the operations and maintenance strategy for Yahoo!’s first data center to utilize 100% free cooling in all conditions. In addition to operational responsibilities, his team is directly responsible for collection and analysis of data that will influence existing operations company-wide as well as future design and implementation efforts. Paul has over 12 years of experience in leading facilities operations in enterprise-level data centers. Previously he has held similar positions for EMCOR Facilities Services at Credit Suisse and Amazon.com.
	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.
	Carl Brooks is an Infrastructure Services Analyst with 451 Research, covering cloud computing and the next generation of IT infrastructure. Previously, he spent several years researching and reporting on the emerging cloud market for TechTarget. Mr Brooks has also spent more than 10 years supporting small and medium-sized businesses as an IT consultant, network and systems integrator, and IT outsourcer. He specialized in server and desktop operations, Linux and Microsoft products, and security, and has thorough knowledge of hardware platforms and networking technologies as well as significant experience working with the channel market. Mr Brooks holds two BA degrees from the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
	Bobby Brown is Vice President of Operations and Support at GoGrid. He started with ServePath (GoGrid’s founding company in 2005) and has been working in the high tech / internet since 1996, where he quickly found that working in leading edge technology was his calling, making GoGrid a natural fit. Working for startups such as North Point Communications and Google as well as larger tech companies such as SBC (now AT&T) and Nortel Networks, Mr Brown brings a good blend of work experience that helps companies run efficiently while still being able to scale properly. Mr Brown is also an avid tennis player, which allows him to exert some of the stresses of running two 24x7 departments which require and maintain 100% uptime. Traveling the globe and music are two other hobbies which keeps him on his toes. Most will agree that Mr Brown leads by example by creating a hard working yet fun work environment.
	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.
	Andras Busci is Design Manager for Mercury Engineering Russia. He studied in the Technical University of Budapest, and Dresden where he received his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation he joined Siemens Elin (B&I) as Mechanical Engineer, where he was involved in large-scale commercial and industrial projects in Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, and the Russian Federation. He joined Mercury in 2008 and since 2010 has led the in-house design team, where he's been involved in numerous design and build projects for critical facilities for international banks (Morgan Stanley, Unicredit Bank, Sberbank, Deutche Bank, EBRD), and other blue-chip clients (HP, Dell, Shell, BP, Siemens, GE, Johnson &Johnson ). In 2011, the data center Mercury built for DSP received Uptime Institute TIER III certification, the first in Russia.
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	Michael Cantrell has been involved in the design, implementation and certification of information transport systems for 14 years. Michael has been responsible for over 750,000 square feet of data center infrastructure deployment and 1,200,000 square feet of campus and office environment backbone and structured cabling. With travel and experience in 84 countries, Mr. Cantrell has been recognized as an industry leader in the areas of data center relocation planning, network design, data center layout, and network infrastructure integration.
	Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. His most recent book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a New York Times bestseller. Mr Carr is also the author of two other influential books, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008) and Does IT Matter? (2004). Mr Carr has been a columnist for The Guardian in London and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Times of London, The New Republic, The Financial Times, Die Zeit and other periodicals. His essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” has been collected in several anthologies, including The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 and The Best Technology Writing 2009.
	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.
	David Cenizal is a registered professional electrical engineer with over 12 years of industry experience, including data center design and construction, semiconductor fabs and utility substations. While at Facebook, David has been responsible for the design and construction of new data center facilities and supporting facilities operations. Prior to joining Facebook, David worked at Cupertino Electric, Inc., where he engineered over 70 MW of critical data center infrastructure across the US for many of Silicon Valley's industry leaders. In addition to data center experience, David is a LEED-Accredited Professional dedicated to incorporating sustainable technology into all of his projects.
	David Cole is the Founder, President and Chief Technical Officer for No Limits Software, a technology company focused on data center management solutions. He is a data center management and education consultant for PTS Data Center Solutions. He also teaches a Data Center Infrastructure Management course for Global Knowledge. He was the founder and software architect for The Advantage Group, which was acquired by Aperture. He has also held positions as the President of the real-time monitoring division of Aperture Technologies (a division of Emerson Network Power), Senior Software Engineer at Emerson Electric, Information Technology Manager at Contel, Director of Research and Development at Systems Enhancement Corporation and Director of Software Engineering at Tripp Lite.He is a Certified Data Centre Professional through ICOR (The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience), a Microsoft Certified Professional Systems Engineer and is also certified for ITIL version 3.
	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 of 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.
	John Consoli is Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for FieldView Solutions.Mr Consoli has 30 years experience in the Data Center Industry. An expert and sought-after speaker, his articles have appeared in publications like Mission Critical and Data Center Journal. Mr Consoli is a trusted advisor to many Fortune 100 clients.
	Gary Cook is a Senior IT Policy Analyst with Greenpeace International, currently focusing on encouraging global IT/ICT brands to increase their own clean tech investment and to advocate for policy change that will drive clean energy development. Mr Cook has worked in the climate change and energy policy arena for the past 15 years and has extensive knowledge of the key policy options and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategies being used at each level of government and within major business sectors, particularly the electric power sector. Mr Cook has direct experience in the development of GHG-reporting protocols and tools to support the identification of effective GHG-reduction strategies at the local level.
	Lex Coors is Vice President, Datacenter Technology & Engineering Group and Chief Engineering Officer at Interxion, where he has supervised the design, build and upgrade of over 61,000m² of data centre space in 28 locations in 11 countries. Over the past 25 years he has built exceptionally strong credentials in the design of versatile, cost-effective and energy-efficient data centre infrastructure. Mr Coors studied Mechanical Engineering and then Management and Economics in Rotterdam. During his time with Interxion, he has pioneered several new approaches to data centre design and management, including the improvement of power ratio efficiency between server load and transformer load, and the industry's first ever modular approach to data centre architecture.
	Tim Crawford is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of IT transformation, innovation and cloud computing. He has served as CIO and other senior IT leadership roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/ All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics, and National Semiconductor. Mr Crawford regularly speaks at industry conferences, is well published and often quoted by business and technology publications. He is a graduate of Golden GAte University with a BS in Computer Information Systems and an MBA in International Business (with Honors).
	Peter Crook is Senior Director of Product Development for Uptime Institute Professional Services. Previously, Mr Crook was CEO of Upsite Technologies, a Santa Fe, NM-based provider of products and services for best practices solutions around energy and cooling efficiency for mission critical data centers. Prior to that, Mr Crook was Vice President of Product Development at LTI in Seattle, and Vice President of Operations for Smith & Associates, a Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor. Mr Crook holds a Baccalaureate in Environmental Economics with an academic concentration in energy emission modeling for coal-fired and refuse-derived fuel plants.
	Chris Crosby is a recognized visionary and leader in the data center space, and founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters. Chris has over 20 years of technology experience and over 10 years of real estate and investment experience. Previously, Chris served as a senior executive and founding member of Digital Realty Trust. Chris was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Digital Realty Trust, responsible for growth initiatives including establishing the company’s presence in Asia. Prior to the initial public offering of Digital Realty, Chris was founder and managing director of Proferian, a company that was responsible for marketing and sales within the GI Partners portfolio with an emphasis on technology-related leasing, including colocation. Proferian served as an operating platform for GI Partners and was rolled into the IPO for Digital Realty Trust. Prior to Proferian, Chris served as a consultant for CRG West, now Coresite. Mr Crosby received a BS degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.
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	Henry Daunert is the founder and CEO of AST Modular, a leading provider of modular, secure and energy-efficient data centers. Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and with offices in the US, South America and Asia, AST Modular is helping several organizations minimize data center Capex and Opex through the delivery of scalable data center capacity. Henry has more than 25 years of experience in mission-critical facilities. In 1992 he co-founded a company focused on Power Quality and Electro Magnetic Fields shielding for data centers and mission-critical environments, which was later acquired by Schneider Electric, where he served as Director. He is member of the IEEE and the Project Management Institute, a trained Risk Engineer from Stanford University and also BBA and MBA graduate from ESADE Business School. Fluent in four languages, Henry is a caring father and enjoys sailing in the Mediterranean when time allows.
	Mark Davidson, Sustainability Officer for JouleX, has been actively engaged in the industrial controls, IT and information security industry for more than 25 years. His most noteworthy accomplishments have come about during his involvement in successful startups that were acquired by Motorola, IBM, EMC and Cisco. Davidson has also held technology executive roles with financial institutions and healthcare organizations. Davidson’s diverse background spanning industrial and nuclear process control, information security as well as executive-level roles gives him unique perspective when assisting customers with their design and implementation of sustainable business practices around energy.
	Patrick Davis is Vice President of Finance and Corporate Strategy for Vantage Data Centers, where he is responsible for financial operations and strategy, including treasury, cash management, financial planning, financial reporting, accounting, tax, investor relations, human resources and risk management. Prior to joining Vantage in 2010, he served as Assistant Controller at Digital Realty Trust, a publicly held wholesale data center company, where he was responsible for global property and corporate accounting, external reporting, technical accounting, global revenue recognition, Sarbanes–Oxley compliance and finance merger and acquisition integration. Prior to that he spent five years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in its US real estate and technology groups. Patrick holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Oregon and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
	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.
	Brian Donathan joined Teladata in 1994 and was promoted to Principal in 2000. As the Principal/Senior Project Manager, he has overall responsibility for IT infrastructure design, technical leadership for data center/mission-critical facilities and managing our project team. Brian began his communications career in research and design with electronic systems with the United States Air Force (USAF). He later went on to manage data communications, cable plant design and installation management for Information Networking Company, Inc. Brian studied Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University and the USA. He is a member of Building Industry Consulting Services International (BICSI) and holds a certificate as a Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD).
	Andrew Donoghue is an Analyst for Datacenter Technologies and Eco-Efficient IT at 451 Research, where he focuses on the implications of desktop and datacenter energy efficiency and power management for overall organizational sustainability. Mr Donoghue also steers 451 Research's involvement in a number of European Union research projects. Before joining The 451 Group, Mr Donoghue worked with several leading technology and environmental publications as a writer and project consultant, specializing in Green IT and related technologies. He has also held senior editorial roles at a number of business publishing companies, including CBS Interactive and Incisive Media.
	Remi Duquette is the Director of Business Development at MAYA HTT. Count on Mr Duquette when it comes to mission critical systems. He has been instrumental in designing and analyzing structural components of four successful spacecrafts currently orbiting the planet.
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	Edward Eacueo is the Director Data Center Business Unit for Eaton’s Wright Line business unit. He has 25 years of experience leading sales, marketing, and engineering organizations in Information Technology (IT), Commercial Electronics, and Military markets. Mr Eacueo has an expert level of technical knowledge with racks/enclosures and critical power and cooling applications in data centers. He has a BA in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and a BE in mechanical design from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering.
	Julie Edwards is a Senior Business Manager at AOL, Inc. where she leads the Business Services team focusing on large programs and initiatives spanning the Technology Operations organization. Over the last 16 years at AOL, Ms Edwards has provided support for varied initiatives including network re-architecture, PCI compliance, regulatory compliance, and Live Help. She has a B.A. in Communication from the University of Oklahoma. While living in the Wild West she learned the art of lassoing rogue servers. Ms Edwards is active in the performing arts in the Washington, D.C. area and sits on the Board of Directors for the Master Singers of Virginia.
	Christopher Eldredge joined Telx in February 2011 as Senior Vice President and GM of Product & Services. Prior to joining Telx, he served as the Executive Vice President of Alternate Channels and Carrier Services at Broadview Network, where he held profit and loss responsibility for $300 million in annual revenue. Prior to that, Eldredge was Corporate Vice President of Carrier Sales & Service at Frontier Communications, where he had full P&L responsibility for $585 million in annual revenue. In addition, he led the wholesale, buy-side due diligence on the $8.6 billion Verizon Communications transaction, and was responsible for the due diligence and post-sale integration of the $1.16 billion dollar Commonwealth Telephone acquisition. In his first role at Frontier, Mr. Eldredge was the Vice President of Marketing and Product Development, guiding the execution of the company's commercial marketing and product strategy for small, medium, enterprise and carrier customers. Mr Eldredge was also an Executive Director at Cablevision Lightpath. He holds a MBA from Dowling College, a MA in Public Relations and Advertising from New York Institute of Technology. He received a BBA in Marketing from Hofstra University.
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	Cliff Federspiel, PhD, is the Founder, President, and Chief Technical Officer of Vigilent. Dr Federspiel is a leader and visionary in the field of energy management. He is the recipient of the Ralph G. Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award from ASHRAE, and holds numerous patents in the field. Dr 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. He later joined the University of California, Berkeley, as a Specialist at The Center for Environmental Design Research and the Electronics Research Laboratory. Dr Federspiel launched Vigilent, building on his pioneering research in dynamic cooling technology and wireless networking, to address the emerging need of treating cooling and energy consumption as a managed resource.
	Paul Finch is the Mechanical Engineering Director, Design & Construction, Europe, at Digital Realty. He is the leading expert for mechanical engineering having both strategic and project level responsibilities. Since joining the company in 2010, he has published a collection of European Design Engineering Guidelines and led successful projects across London, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin and Singapore markets. Mr Finch has over 24 years of progressive experience in engineering and construction consulting, focused on commercial real estate and high dependency mission critical environments in the banking and finance, technology and telecommunications sectors. Prior to Digital Realty, Mr Finch was a Director at CB Richard Ellis, leading their London engineering consultancy business unit. He holds a BSc(Hons) in Building Services Engineering from London South Bank University, PgDip in Engineering Management from Brunel University. He is registered with the Engineering Council (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Member of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and active group member of ASHRAE Technical Committee TC9.9 - Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment.
	John Ford is an information and telecommunications industry veteran with 20 years’ experience in executive management, technical sales and marketing for data center, IP and data carriers, as well as industry intelligence. Appointed as Vice President of Sabey Data Centers in 2010, Mr. Ford is responsible for developing and managing leasing, sales and marketing programs to address business needs for a wide variety of vertical markets. Prior to joining Sabey in 2004, Mr. Ford served as Director of Network Facilities for Terabeam Corporation, a rapidly growing free-space optics company; prior to that he was National Program Manager at Verizon, where he was responsible for all communication infrastructure programs for the Boeing Company.
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	Tom Garrett spent 29 years at Intel, managing a variety of semiconductor operations and functions. As Director of New Factory Startups, Tom provided direction of all startups at the Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, which included the 200mm D1B; a large 200mm bridging facility; D1C, Intel’s initial 300mm factory and first fully automated facility; RB1, a 300mm Research and Pathfinding facility; and the 300mm D1D, his largest facility covering over 5½ football fields in size and the current home for Intel’s Logic Technology Development group. Tom directed Intel’s 300mm conversion program, an industry-leading operation, considered to be Intel’s largest and most successful wafer size conversion. His understanding of the challenges to startup of industry critical facilities led to breakthrough cost reductions in factory construction and equipment installation that became the standard for Intel’s factory programs. Tom developed the conceptual idea and secured initial funding for Intel’s newest high density data center complex, one of the world’s highest density data centers.
	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.
	Daniel Golding , Vice President and General Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of RagingWire Data Centers’ newest expansion in Ashburn, Virginia. Mr. Golding has over 15 years' experience in the Internet, data center, and critical facilities fields. Prior to joining RagingWire, Daniel was Managing Director of DH Capital, the leading investment bank in the data center sector, where he provided technical and engineering leadership. Daniel is perhaps best known as the Vice President of Research at industry analyst firm Tier1 Research, where he supervised research and consulting efforts in the areas of dedicated and managed hosting, and led the firm's entrance into the data center and cloud computing sectors. Under his leadership, the Hosting Transformation Summit became the industry's most prominent hosting and data center event. Prior to Tier1, Daniel led global peering efforts at America Online and served as a nuclear engineer in the US Navy. He has served as the finance chairman and as a member of the program committee of the North American Network Operators Group, the professional association for Internet Engineering. Mr. Golding has a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from Auburn, and received a Masters Degree in Telecommunications from George Mason University
	Josh Goldstein, the Vice President (VP) Marketing & Product Management for XtremIO, is an experienced technology marketing executive, with extensive domain expertise in the storage and networking industries. He joined XtremIO in November 2011 and leads all aspects of corporate and product marketing, as well as the company's product management efforts. Prior to XtremIO he served as VP of Marketing & Product Management at Cirtas and held a series of marketing and sales leadership roles at Ixia, the leading provider of IP performance testing equipment. Mr Goldstein holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a BSME from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
	Rey Gonzalez is Senior Manager, Data Center Operations for EMC, where he manages operations for EMC Data Centers located in Santa Clara, CA; Durham, NC; and Cork, Ireland. Mr Gonzalez is responsible all daily operations, data center infrastructure management, and data center efficiency. Over the last two years, Mr Gonzalez has helped build EMC's new Private Cloud Data Center and is currently focused on leading EMC's global data center efficiency program.
	Chris Grahn, Director of Global Data Center Operations, brings over 20 years of computing and data center technology experience to ServerCentral. As Director of Data Center Operations, Grahn is responsible for staffing and training at multiple facilities, documenting new procedures and systems, inventory management, performing audits, quality control, and maintaining top-level customer support. He has an extensive professional background in facility engineering, as well as in electrical, HVAC, and monitoring systems. Prior to ServerCentral, Grahn was the Data Center Operations Director for XMission, where he singlehandedly ran a privately owned data center and was in charge of planning, budgeting, and executing facility growth on power, cooling, and data systems. In this role, he also performed high-profile customer installations, zero downtime utility upgrades, and negotiated a deal to have the facility power 100% offset by wind power. Grahn studied Computer Engineering at the University of Utah.
	John Groen is Senior Director of Technical Services for ADP. Mr Groen joined ADP in February 2006 as Director of Technical Services for the DC2 Data Center. He has assumed responsibility for ADP's DC1 Data Center as well as the DC3 Data Center in Canada. He is also responsible for the installation and ongoing support of all data center equipment and cabling as well as the environmentals and planning associated with these installations.
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	Mark Harris is Vice President of Marketing at Server Technology Inc. He has been involved in data center technologies for more than 25 years in a wide range of market segments including commercial computing systems, storage, security, and networks.
	Craig Harrison is the founder of the 640-acre Niobrara Data Center Energy Park, a greenfield energy project located in northern Colorado (Weld County) that has 45 data and energy land uses approved, including cloud computing data centers, a 50-megawatt solar farm, a 200-megawatt gas power plant, renewables, and energy storage. The project, said to be “one of the largest utility-scale MicroGrids on the planet,” capitalizes on the economic activity within the 20-mile radius of Niobrara Data Center Energy Park, including Microsoft’s newly announced Cheyenne data center, NCAR’s supercomputing center, the Rawhide Energy Station, the Cheyenne natural gas hub and Xcel’s Ponnequin Wind Farm. Craig has more than 30 years of land, commercial real estate and natural resource experience and has closed 750 transactions worth more than $650 million, including more than 200,000 acres of land and 250,000 square feet of commercial properties.
	Tony Harvey is a Senior Product Manager at Cisco Systems working on Power, Cooling and Environmental strategies for the Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. As part of this and previous roles, Mr Harvey is responsible for working on power and cooling solutions for high density blade servers, working with data center vendors and product groups on how to manage increased data center density, improve energy efficiency and extend the life of the data center infrastructure. He has presented at industry conferences and many customers on the issues related to high-density power and cooling solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr Harvey spent twenty years in technical support, technical training, product development and product management roles for technology companies including HP and various UK resellers.
	Yoram Heller is the VP of Corporate Development for Morphlabs, where he drives business development, partnerships and strategic alliances. Yoram has been the driving force behind partnerships for Morphlabs including Arista Networks, Citrix, Dell, Nexenta and Zend. Throughout his career, Yoram has been passionate about disruptive technology and contributed to open source startups, including being employee number four after the founders at Webtide (acquired by Intalio). Yoram is also a founder of a fashion line, The Hellers, and an owner of Intercare Therapy, one of Southern California's largest clinic for children with Autism. Yoram is a founding curator and member of the Los Angeles chapter of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers. Yoram graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business with majors in International Business and Marketing with a focus on Technology.
	Rick Henson is Vice President of Security Operations for QTS, operating out of the company’s Richmond Data Center, and is responsible for the physical and logical security as well as business continuity and disaster recovery of the company’s 12 data centers from coast-to-coast. Rick has over 20 years of diverse security, emergency management, intelligence, counterterrorism planning, and protective operations experience in the private sector and in Federal service, including senior positions in the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS). Previously, Rick led security programs at the U. S. Office of Personnel Management, U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, and the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. Rick served in numerous overseas locations with the Intelligence community from 1995 through 1999. Rick retired from the U. S. Marine Corps after a successful 20 year career, serving two tours with Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1) at Quantico, VA. Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP).
	Joseph Hollo, PE, is the Director of Critical Environments for CH2M HILL/IDC Architects. Mr. Hollo has over 20 years experience in the management of design and construction for mission critical and technology facilities. His experience encompasses a wide variety of data center projects for collocation, hosting, enterprise, technology, and financial customers, providing quality cost/benefit analysis upfront and emphasizing the importance of lifecycle cost analysis to select the appropriate technologies and systems for power and cooling. Using his background in electrical engineering and experience in construction management, Mr. Hollo acts as a thought leader in IDCA’s data center practice, encouraging new problem-solving approaches to data center design and construction.
	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.
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	Brian Johnston is Chief Operations Officer for QTS (Quality Technology Services) where he provides technology leadership for IT infrastructure, product development and data center operations. He oversees operational functions throughout the company and designs and implements programs that strengthen the company’s processes and increase efficiency. With more than 16 years of experience, Brian has worked in various engineering positions for several of the nation’s top technology companies. Brian’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.
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	Daniel Kennedy is the Data Center Product Manager for Tate Access Floors. After joining Tate in early 2010, he has focused on the research and product development supporting the efficient use of access floor in data centers. His recently completed research has been compiled into several whitepapers focusing on the subject of raised floors in data centers. Before coming to Tate, Mr Kennedy spent the last 6 years with Rittal, a large manufacturer of IT racks and data center cooling technology, specializing in the manufacture and application of IT infrastructure, focusing primarily on high density deployments. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cedarville University. Mr Kennedy is also a member of ASHRAE.
	Jim Kennedy is currently Director of Critical Facility Engineering, where he is responsible for engineering and operational oversight for RagingWire Data Centers. Since joining RagingWire, he has completed engineering, construction and operations on two data centers in California and is overseeing the build out of another RagingWire data center facility in Ashburn, VA. He has also completed over a dozen major energy efficiency and green computing programs, saving over 8,000,000 kWh in the last year and reducing annualized average PUE from 1.80 to 1.37 on a legacy data center and projected PUEs on new data centers of 1.30 to 1.35, including earning the EPA Energy Star rating for data centers. Prior to joining RagingWire in Sacramento, Jim served in the United States Naval Nuclear Submarine Force as a Lieutenant Commander on several fast attack submarines. Jim received a B.S. in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
	Baz Khuti, CTO and VP Engineering of Avocent, a division of Emerson Network Power, has over 24 years of IT, business development, software engineering and professional services experience in North America, Europe and Asia. Baz joined Avocent, a $1.2 billion Emerson acquisition in March 2010, transitioning from his role as Chief Architect, Emerson IT. During his five years as Chief Architect for Emerson IT, he lead the architecture and design of Emerson’s Private Cloud Global Data Center - Integration Center of Excellence, using Oracle’s Fusion middleware technologies, Oracle eBusiness suite re-architecture on Sun hardware, web consolidation, global security architecture and global network design. Baz has three patents, spent two years in the British Territorial Army and holds a BA in Business Studies from the University of Mid Glamorgan, Wales, as well as a Masters in Computing from the University of De Montfort in Leicester, England.
	Bryce Kleen has an extensive career in the IT industry ranging from solution sales and consulting to operations management and product management and development. Mr Kleen is currently the cooling products manager in Geist Global’ s data center solutions division.
	Keith Klesner, PE, is a Senior Consultant and Tier Certification Authority for Uptime Institute Professional Services. He performs audits, custom strategic-level consulting engagements, professional accreditation courses, and Tier Certifications. Mr Klesner's career in critical facilities spans 13 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. 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 6 years as a US Air Force Officer. He has a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado - Boulder and an MBA from the University of LaVerne. He maintains status as both Professional Engineer (PE) in Colorado and LEED Accredited Professional.
	Bill Kleyman, MBA, MISM, is an enthusiastic and avid technologist with experience in data center design, management and architecture. His engineering work includes large virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. With close to 100 published articles, podcasts and other forms of interactive media, Bill has been a solid resource for many of his followers. As constant contributor to the technology community, Bill enjoys writing, blogging and educating his readers on everything new when it comes to technological innovations. His work has been featured on various TechTarget sites, BusinessWeek and others. Currently, he is a Virtualization Solutions Architect at MTM Technologies Inc., where he interacts daily with some of the world’s largest and most interesting organizations.
	Jon Koomey, PhD, is a Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He is the author or coauthor of eight books and more than 150 articles and reports on energy efficiency and power technologies, energy economics, energy policy, global climate change, and critical thinking skills, and is a leading expert on the economics of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of information technology on resource use. Dr Koomey holds an AB in the History of Science from Harvard University and an MS and PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California-Berkeley.
	Matt Koukl is is the Director of Sales for Opengate Data Systems. In this role Mr Koukl has responsibility for providing technical leadership on Opengate’s solutions to Owners, architects, consulting engineers, and contractors throughout the US and Canada. Mr Koukl’s experience as a Trane Sales Engineer has positioned him well to assist clients with Data Center design and controls strategies. Mr Koukl is an active member of AFCOM, sits on the local Madison ASHRAE Board of Governors, and actively attends 7X24 Exchange and other data center conferences. He is also a Certified Data Center Energy Practitioner.
	Julian Kudritzki is Vice President of Uptime Institute. He has managed the expansion of Tier Program into South America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He continues to ensure the integrity of Tier Certifications worldwide and work with clients to broadcast their Tier awards. Mr. Kudritzki has assisted in the development of numerous Uptime Institute publications and educational programs, including the Accredited Tier Designer and Specialist curricula.
	Christopher Kurkjian, PE, is a Principal and co-founder of kW Mission Critical Engineering. As a professional mechanical engineer, he has 30 years experience in the design and construction of complex air conditioning, plumbing, and fire protection systems for mission critical facilities. He is a voting member of ASHRAE’s technical committee, TC9.9, on mission critical environments and a board member of the NY Empire State 7x24 chapter. Chris 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 and is often asked to present on his technical expertise at many global events.
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	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.
	Andy Lawrence is Research Vice President of the Datacenter Technologies and the Eco-Efficient IT research practices at The 451 Group. 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 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.
	Dan Lee is a registered PE and LEED AP BD+C with 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 datacenters, 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 datacenter facilities, energy efficiency retrofits of existing sites, and providing facilities operations support to the datacenter management team.
	Mike Lewis joined eBay in March 2004 as the manager of Denver Data Center Operations supporting eBay’s server environments in Colorado. After 4 years in this role he was promoted to Director Mission Critical Engineering and has primary responsibility for eBay’s data center architecture and raised floor environments. His most recent accomplishment is the on time and within budget delivery of eBay’s newest data center in Phoenix, AZ. Mike had come to eBay from the automotive industry after serving 4 years in the Army. He has an electrical engineering degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University.
	Frank Lukas is the Global Chief Technology Officer of Devonshire Investors, the private investment firm affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. His responsibilities include working with Colt and KVH on coordinated product and technology roadmaps and the evolution of network architecture, data centre and co-location services, managed services and cloud computing offerings. Frank has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the telecom and data center industries with premiere companies in these sectors. Prior to Devonshire Investors, he was Vice President of Hosting Services at Qwest Communication, whose industry-leading national fiber-optic network and full suite of data and voice services is used by 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Qwest, he held similar senior positions with AT&T/Bell Labs and Iridium, a global mobile satellite communications company, with voice and data solutions. Frank holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Australia.
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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 IO, where he oversees network operations, software development, governance, architecture, and IT strategy. At IO Mr. Malik has lead the effort to design a world class data center management software suite and is considered an industry expert in DCIM, presenting and hosting at analyst meetings worldwide. Malik previously served as Vice President, Global Enterprise Applications, for Starwood Hotels and Resorts. During his 10-year tenure at Starwood, Malik oversaw Finance and HR systems in over 20 different countries and was a key advisor on infrastructure trends, offshore operations, and outsourcing. Prior to Starwood, Mr. Malik was a lead consultant for a large SAP deployment for the City of Phoenix and worked as a technology consultant with Accenture.
	Dhiraj Mallick is corporate vice president of AMD’s Data Center Server Solutions business unit. In this role he is responsible hardware and systems engineering and fabric-related solutions. Mallick joined AMD in 2012 via its acquisition of SeaMicro where he lead hardware engineering. Previously, Mallick was vice president of Engineering at MetaRAM, a VC-backed semiconductor startup, where he delivered into production two generations of products in 30 months. Prior to MetaRAM, Dhiraj spent 10 years at AMD. He has held various technical and management roles in silicon engineering including the director of the Global Microprocessor CAD Organization, VLSI design team lead for Opteron and Athlon64, was program manager for the Athlon64 product transition to 65nm, leader of the AMD SOC initiative, and also managed the end-of-life product development and test for the K6 family of products. Prior to AMD, he was at NexGen, an x86 startup company acquired by AMD. He has a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
	Antonio Mancini, OAA, is a Principal with Urbacon Architecture. He received a BS in Building Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965. After practicing architecture and becoming an accredited urban planner, he founded the construction firm Urbacon Limited in 1984. Based on client demand he started Urbacon Power Management in 1997 and the following year assembled a Team of Professionals specialising in the design-build of data centers and telecom facilities across Canada for a limited number of repeat clients. Mr Mancini has led this Team and traveled the world with them to seek new technologies and evaluate existing ones.
	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.
	Rob McClary joined FORTRUST at its founding in 2001 and built FORTRUST into the premier data center services provider and colocation facility that it is today. In his role as Vice President, he is responsible for the overall supervision of the business, daily business operations, multi-million dollar construction projects and future technical direction. Rob developed and implemented the process controls and procedures that provide the continuous uptime and reliability that FORTRUST's customers seek. Prior to FORTRUST, Rob worked in the medical industry managing manufacturing projects and a large team of supervisors and engineers. He developed and honed his management philosophy, attention to detail and strict process standards during his 16 year tenure in the United States Navy where he served in both enlisted and officer roles such as Main Propulsion Assistant and Electrical and Auxiliaries Division Officer. Rob is a graduate of Southern Illinois University.
	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.
	Matthew Mescall is a Consultant for Uptime Institute Professional Services, where he performs audits and provides strategic-level consulting and Tier Certification reviews. Mr Mescall’s career in critical facilities spans 12 years and includes responsibilities in planning, engineering, design, construction and operation. Before joining Uptime Institute, Mr Mescall was with IBM, where he both operated their Boulder, CO data center and led a worldwide team analyzing best practices across IBM data centers globally to ensure consistent, cost effective reliability. Mr Mescall holds a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California, a MS in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
	Sitar Mody is a project manager for the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF's) Corporate Partnerships Program, where she works with leading companies, cities and universities through EDF's innovative Climate Corps project. EDF Climate Corps is summer fellowship program that places top tier MBA and MPA students in leading companies, cities and universities to develop practical, actionable energy efficiency plans aimed cutting costs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Ms Mody oversees matching fellows with companies, manages the EDF Climate Corps network and builds relationships with leading companies to help them save money and energy through efficiency.
	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.
	Dave Mulholland, Vice President Marketing, Service at Power Distribution, Inc. (PDI), has been in the mission-critical power distribution business for over twelve years. Mr Mulholland speaks regularly at industry events held by 7x24 Exchange, Datacenter Dynamics, AFCOM, TCC and other data center and facilities management organizations on various topics including branch circuit monitoring systems, overhead bus distribution, and modular datacenters. Before joining PDI, Mr Mulhollandserved as a general manager for United Technologies Otis Elevator division and received his MBA from the University of Virginia. Mr Mulholland has served on the Board of Directors for the Potomac Chapter of AFCOM for the past seven years and presently holds the President position.
	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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	Dean Nelson is the Vice President of Global Foundation Services for eBay, Inc, the world’s largest online marketplace. He is responsible for Strategy, Engineering and Operational functions of eBay's Mission Critical Data Centers, Networking and Security Infrastructure Services and Global Supply Chain. Mr Nelson is also a core member of the eBay Green Team; is the Co-Chair of The Green Grid End User Advisory Council and the Technical Advisory Board for Mission Critical Magazine; is Founder of Data Center Pulse; was author of the Sun Microsystems Blueprint series, Energy Efficient Datacenters; was featured as a Sun Microsystems Contrarian Mind; and was identified by SearchDatacenter.com as one of the top five people who changed the data center. Mr Nelson, the recipient of Sun’s prestigious Innovation Award, is an avid blogger through his DCP Geekism and eBay's Green Team Talks blogs.
	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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	Steve O'Keeffe is the founder of MeriTalk, the online community that hosts professional networking, thought leadership, and focused events to drive the US government IT dialogue. A 20-year veteran of the government IT community, Mr O'Keeffe has worked in government and industry and has contributed to The Washington Post and The Economist. Today, he regularly sparks dialogue on his blog, My Cup of IT. Mr O’Keeffe is a fixture as an expert witness on Capitol Hill, testifying on government IT and workforce issues in both House and Senate hearings. In addition to MeriTalk, he founded Telework Exchange, GovMark Council, and O’Keeffe & Company.
	Martin Olsen serves as the Active Power’s vice president and general manager of Global Sales and Business Development. In this role, Olsen leads all multi-channel sales strategies to drive growth and market penetration within Active Power’s nine trading markets around the globe. In addition to his sales responsibilities, Olsen also oversees all global business development efforts to diversify sales channels and expand new revenue streams for the company. A holder of three U.S. patents, Olsen is a seasoned professional in the datacenter infrastructure markets with more than 13 years of global marketing, product development and business development experience. Olsen previously served as vice president of Global Channels and Business Development for Active Power. Before joining the company in 2007, Olsen was director of the Data Center Group for Wright Line LLC, a Worcester, Mass. based datacenter infrastructure firm. Olsen received his bachelor’s of science in Marketing from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark. In addition to his degree, he also earned diplomas in Logistics and International Business Law from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark.
	Gary Orazio, PE, is President of Swanson Rink, a leading data center consulting and engineering firm based in Denver, Colorado. Swanson Rink specializes in the design of new facilities as well as renovation of existing data center facilities and helps clients align their data center facility infrastructure with their business strategies. As an integral part of Swanson Rink’s Data Center Engineering Group, Mr Orazio is involved in the mechanical system design and upfront programming for many of Swanson Rink’s Fortune 500 clients. Mr Orazio is a Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience consulting on over 2 million square feet of raised floor data center space.
	Rick Osbaugh, PE, LEED AP BD+C, is the Director of Advanced Energy Systems at The RMH Group. Mr Osbaugh is a true innovator in the industry and his role is to help The RMH Group remain positioned at the forefront of low energy mechanical system design. He has been designing low energy use systems for more than 30 years and garnered international attention for this work as early as 1983 for his design of an office building in Lakewood, Colorado. He recently developed innovative design solutions for one of the largest GSA retrofit projects in the nation, the Byron Rogers Federal Office Building Modernization, in Denver, Colorado, that is projected to significantly reduce energy consumption. Mr Osbaugh holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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	Christina Page is Global Director of Energy and Sustainability Strategy for Yahoo!, where she is responsible for shaping the company's corporate environmental activities. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ms Page was at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a Colorado-based "think-and-do tank" led by energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins. She has also been a field instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School and a writer/editor for the public radio environmental program "Living on Earth." While living in Colorado, Ms Page was a member of the all-volunteer Mountain Rescue Aspen team, providing aid to lost and injured parties in the Rocky Mountains. She has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies from Brown University and a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
	Anand Babu Periasamy (AB) is a member of the office of the CTO at Red Hat, where he sets the vision and strategy for storage products. Prior to Red Hat, AB was the co-founder of Gluster Inc., as well as CTO at California Digital Corporation, where his work led to the scaling of the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. He drove the adoption of cluster computing and GNU/Linux at enterprise data centers and helped close strategic accounts at CDC. In 2004, AB led the development of the world’s second fastest Supercomputer “Thunder”, for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. AB also serves on the board of “Free Software Foundation – India”. He is the author / contributor of various other Free Software projects like GNU FreeIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), GNU Garp (Gratuitous ARP Daemon), bios-config (edit/replicate CMOS parameters), librpci/hdb (RPC interpose for GNU Hurd) and Hymn/PlayFair (iTunes ripper), GNU Freetalk (Scheme extensible messenger for Jabber, Google talk), and Freehoo (Scheme extensible messenger for YahooIM). He holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
	Karen Petraska is presently serving as the Service Executive for Computing Services in the NASA Office of the Chief Information Officer, leading NASA’s response to the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative and exploring larger overall agency computing issues including cloud computing. Karen has a Masters Degree in Computer Science and 25 years of experience between academia, industry and government. She has worked in several areas of enterprise IT infrastructure services including messaging, directories, authentication/authorization, networks, data centers and IT security and has a significant interest in the challenges of technology and policy integration in large organizations. Karen most recently served as the NASA Service Executive for Authentication and Authentication where she led NASA’s HSPD-12 implementation and delivered several key capabilities to ensure NASA’s compliance. Previously she served as the Chief Information Officer at NASA’s Ames Research Center and before that, as the Chief of the Information Services and Technology Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
	Ray Pfeifer is the SVP of Business Development at SynapSense, a mesh wireless sensor networking company located in Folsom, California. Ray 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.
	Wally Phelps brings over twenty-five years of engineering and technology experience in storage and IT to his role as Director of Engineering for AdaptivCOOL, Degree Controls’ data center division. Mr. Phelps has authored numerous White Papers on data center cooling and efficiency and has also been quoted extensively on data center trends in numerous industry publications including InformationWeek, Processor, The Data Center Journal, SearchDataCenter.com and Wall Street & Technology.
	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.
	Jon Prall has 20 years of executive management, technical leadership success, profit building in operations, systems enhancements, and large-scale implementations. His experience includes roles as the Vice President of Operations for Tango, Senior Vice President of Engineering Operations at Adify, and senior positions at Vivaty, Six Apart, Macrovision, Postini and several other large-scale internet organizations.
	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, Dr 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 and has published over twenty papers.
	Neil Rasmussen is a Senior Vice President (VP) of Innovation for Schneider Electric. He establishes the technology direction for the world’s largest R&D budget devoted to power, cooling, and rack infrastructure for data centers. Mr Rasmussen holds 28 patents related to high-efficiency and high-density data center power and cooling infrastructure, and has authored over 60 papers. After founding APC in 1981, Mr Rasmussen served as Senior VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for 26 years, assuming his current role after APC joined Schneider Electric in 2007. Mr Rasmussen has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	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.
	Terry Rennaker is the Vice President and Director of Modular Infrastructure for Skanska. Terry is a founding member of the Digital Energy Foundation, a member of the board of advisors of the Green Data Center Alliance, and a frequent speaker at Real Estate and Mission Critical industry events. Terry brings 27 years of experience in the real estate, development and construction of mission critical facilities. At Skanska, Terry drives innovative modular solutions that result in a lower TCO for clients.
	Chad Ritsema leads Panduit Services operations and delivery for the Americas. During his tenure with Panduit, he has overseen assessment, design, and implementation engagements for notable clients such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, EMC², the University of Minnesota, Catholic Health Services, Carolinas Healthcare System, Eaton Corp., Siemens, Hertz, the CME Group, and Morgan Stanley.
	Jeremy Rodriguez is the Distinguished Engineer for Data Center Services at eBay Inc., the world's largest online marketplace. Mr Rodriguez has over 15 years of experience in the IT and data center industry. He joined eBay in 2010 and is responsible for the architecture and engineering of future IT and data center technologies for eBay's mission critical data center infrastructure. Mr Rodriguez designed the modular data center RFP which, through a competitive process, selected eBay's Project Mercury rooftop modular data center solutions. His past accomplishments include the construction of an 8MW 60,000 sq/ft LEED Platinum data center in Washington while employed at VMware.
	Dave Rotheroe is Senior Technologist, IT Data Center Strategy, Design, and Engineering at Hewlett Packard (HP). As a senior level technologist in HP IT, Mr Rotheroe is responsible for cross-functional strategy, engineering, and implementation for HP global IT data centers. With a unique combination of strong research and development, IT, and facility backgrounds, he drives new IT and facility technology into the data center from a holistic view – including facility, network, storage, backup and server implementations. His key areas of focus are: meeting continuously changing business requirements; increasing utilization/efficiency/ROI; and maintaining 100% continuous availability.
	Steve Rudinsky is the Product Marketing Manager responsible for all aspects of marketing for the BendBroadband Vault. The Vault, a 30,000 square foot data center located in Bend, Oregon, is the only Tier III Facility Certified and LEED Gold Certified multi-tenant data center in the Western United States. Prior to the BendBroadband Vault, Steve worked for 12 years at Sun Microsystems in various product marketing roles, including managing the OpenSPARC project, which was the open source initiative of the UltraSPARC CMT processor product family. Prior to that role, Steve led the marketing launch of Sun’s E10K large scale server that was acquired from Cray Research. Prior to Sun, Steve held various marketing and sales roles with Cray Research, Sequent Computers and Unisys.
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	John Sabey is President of Sabey Data Center Properties, one of the world's top privately owned data center companies, where he has overseen the development of a portfolio of two million square feet of data center space with another one and a half million square feet currently under development on campuses that span the United States. Under Mr Sabey's direction, the company offers turnkey data center modules managed by Sabey Data Centers' critical environment management team, in addition to powered shell and build to suit. Mr Sabey also serves as Senior Vice President of Real Estate for Sabey Corporation, overseeing acquisition and development for the commercial real estate portfolio comprising office and medical technology space. The portfolio consists of approximately 5.4 million square feet developed, owned and managed by Sabey. In 1995, after a successful career in Chicago with Prudential Real Estate Investors, Mr Sabey joined the family business. He holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
	Jason Schafer is Senior Analyst for Datacenters at Tier1 Research and a member of the Datacenter Technologies group at The 451 Group. 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.
	Ty Schmitt is the Executive Director for Dell’s Modular Infrastructure Solutions organization. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Texas A&M and has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, IT hardware and thermal design, engineering management, data center thermal simulation and solutions, and modular data centers. He has architected, engineered, and productized numerous modular data center solutions and has built and currently leads a rapidly growing, cross functional engineering team responsible for IT to the utility connection. As an engineering director he has built an organization focused on the customer, quality and driven to achieve ultimate efficiency and TCO. This IT to utility understanding and ownership has resulted in numerous modular data center solutions utilizing 100% free air cooling while supporting extreme densities. Mr Schmitt has 40 US patents.
	John H. (Hank) Seader, PE, is a Managing Principal at Uptime Institute, focusing on the Institute’s Research and Education programs. Mr. Seader is an original co-author of the Uptime Institute Tier Standard: Topology, and developed the Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) course. His data center experience spans more than 20 years and includes programming, design, and operation of data centers for both the public and private sectors. Mr Seader received his Bachelor of Science degree from the US Air Force Academy and his Master of Science from Stanford University.
	Terry Seger is a senior member of Cummins Power Generation’s Tier4 team, focusing on EPA emissions regulations and compliance standards for stationery diesel generators used in critical protection applications. He has participated in structuring emergency power systems for some of the world's largest data centers and has produced several published presentations and white papers on the topic of emission compliance for stationary emergency systems. Mr Seger has experience in diesel power generation service, service management and application engineering. Currently, he is the North America Central Regional Manager for Cummins Power Generation's Power Systems Group.
	Debbie Seidman, PE, is Director of Technical Services for Uptime Institute Professional Services. Ms Seidman has over 20 years of experience delivering high-value, energy-efficient, and cost-effective projects for mission critical data centers and research facilities. Most recently, she was with Xcel Energy, where she worked on Demand Side Energy Efficiency Projects including data centers. Previous to that, she was with HP on the team that developed the HP POD as well as a number of years on their Real Estate team as a Project Manager, Facilities Engineer, and Operations Engineer. Ms Seidman holds a BS in Architectural Engineering (Building Systems Engineering) from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Colorado State University.
	Zsolt Sepa, P.Eng. is the Application Director for the Power Quality Products at S&C Electric Ltd Canada. His primary responsibilities include design of tier specific UPS protection for large data centers, and application support for reactive power compensation systems and large energy storage applications using S&C inverter based products. Zsolt’s prior positions include Electrical Automation and Control Engineer and Senior Electrical Project Manager. As a Senior Electrical Project Manager he was involved with the design and commissioning of several data centers and hospitals. He is an Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer, Green Building LEED Accredited Professional and a Senior IEEE member. He has extensive experience in development of control strategies for power electronic converters, design of electrical power systems and design and implementation of electrical automations. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electro-mechanical Engineering from North University of Baia Mare in Romania and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Aalborg University in Denmark.
	John Sheputis founded Fortune Data Centers in 2006 and has been leading the firm since inception. John has a proven track record of building successful IT infrastructure firms. Prior to Fortune, John has founded and managed several Silicon Valley ventures, most of which specialized in large-scale infrastructure management and hosting of global applications. From 1999 through 2003, he was COO and Co-Founder of Totality (now a unit of Verizon Business [VZ]), which helped launch and manage over 100 Internet applications for some of the nation’s most trusted and well-respected firms. John also held senior management positions at Solidcore (sold to MacAfee [MFE] in 2009), BeVocal (Sold to Nuance [NUAN] in 2007), Enron, Gemini Consulting and Accenture. John has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School.
	George Slessman ihas 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. He has directly overseen the development of over 100 megawatts of data center capacity, and is the named inventor of several patented and patent-pending technologies. Widely regarded as an astute observer of technology trends as well as an innovator of game-changing technologies, Mr Slessman is a sought-after speaker at industry events. Mr Slessman earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.
	Jim Smith is the CTO of Digital Realty, the global data center solution provider with more than 100 data center properties in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Mr Smith has been with the company since 2004. He and the Digital Realty team have delivered more than 500MW of data center projects totaling more than a billion dollars of capital investment. Mr Smith also leads Digital Realty's sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives including multiple LEED Platinum, LEED Gold and BREEAM excellent certifications. For his accomplishment and contributions to the industry, Mr Smith was named one of the top CTOs in the United States by InfoWorld Magazine. Mr Smith earned his BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and his MBA from London Business School.
	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.
	John Stanley is a Research Analyst for Datacenter Technologies and Eco-Efficient IT at 451 Research, 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 Professional Services, 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.
	Andrew Stokes is the Chief Scientist of Deutsche Bank’s Group Technology & Operations division. He is responsible for long term strategic planning and technology research for the Bank’s data centers and enterprise infrastructure services. Mr Stokes also acts as technology advisor to the Bank’s front office divisions, assisting clients with technology strategy and development opportunities. Mr Stokes is a strong advocate for the transformation of business through disruptive technology innovation. He has key interests in enterprise cloud computing, eco-efficiency, and alternative technology architectures. Mr Stokes is a key contributor and board member in the Open Data Center Alliance, working on cloud computing and open data center requirements development. He also has influential positions in The Green Grid and the TM Forum Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council.
	Robert Strong, PE, is Owner/Partner, Critical Facilities Technology [CFT] and focuses on Design and Implementation of Electrical and Mechanical Systems to support Critical Installations. Before starting CFT, Mr Strong was a Project Manager for Frank Electric (Cupertino Electric) in Milpitas, CA. Prior to his time with Frank, he was a Navy Nuclear Power Engineer on the USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier and Lead NETA Acceptance Testing Engineer with Electro-Test Inc. (EPM) for the Silicon Valley Area. Mr Strong has taken a number of volunteer Missions trips overseas to help build and train people in Third World countries, most recently spending two weeks in Sierra Leone West Africa. When not working on or modifying a car or motorcycle, he can be found with his wife and two children snowboarding or riding ATVs in the beautiful Colorado mountains.
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	Bruce Taylor is the Executive Producer of Uptime Institute Symposium 2012. 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.
	Jay Taylor’s career in technology is distinguished, with tenure at companies such as Texas Instruments, Datapoint, AT&T, Dell and Schneider Electric. Jay attained his Bachelors of Science Degree from Texas A&M University and is a proud member of the Aggie Class of ‘77. Jay serves a number of industry leadership positions: Chairman of the ENERGY STAR Working Group, Chairman of The Green Grid Liaison Committee, Vice Chair of NEMA 1PE Section, and nominated for JTC1/SC39 Chairman Sustainability for and by Information 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.
	John Toner is the Principal Member of Technical Staff for IT Sustainability Initiatives at Verizon Wireless. Previously, he managed Verizon Wireless’ Irvine Data Center Tier II like facility from 1999 until the facility closed with more than 12 years of uptime in Q3 2010. A graduate of California State University, Fullerton with degrees in Information Systems and a subsequent MBA; he joined AirTouch Cellular (A predecessor to Verizon Wireless) in 1994, after a career in classified aerospace work. John has been involved in data center design, planning, and operations since 1980. He is a member of the USGBC and holds a CDP designation from the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals.
	W Pitt Turner IV, PE, is the Executive Director Emeritus 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.
	Matt Tyndall is Executive Vice President of Site Development for QTS (Quality Technology Services). With over 20 years of mission-critical development experience, Matt leads construction and expansion of the company's growing portfolio of data center facilities nationwide. Having managed over $1 billion in data center projects in his career, Matt is responsible for the multiple expansion and new construction projects taking place at QTS. Working out of Atlanta, Matt’s scope of work includes site acquisition, design, construction and development as QTS continues to expand its state-of-the-art offerings nationwide.
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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 Capgemini, using a revolutionary modular design solution which provides free cooling for more than 99% of the year.
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	Dana Watts is an Architect and Director of the Mission Critical and Advanced Technology Design Studio at SMMA. With over 31 years of professional design and planning experience, Dana has excelled in leading fast-tracked projects, while incorporating new products, technology, and trends into his design solutions. His recent data center projects include EMC’s Durham Cloud Data Center, Worcester City Campus Corporation, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Ronald Weaver is the Principal Investigator and Manager of the NASA-funded Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. The DAAC is NASA's largest earth sciences data management program at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Center’s 40 plus staff manage satellite derived snow and ice data products from four NASA Earth Observing System sensors in the visible/infrared and microwave spectra. Earth scientists use these data, internationally, to monitor the Earth's cryosphere.
	Steve Webb is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ark Continuity. An experienced COO, Mr Webb has worked for over 10 years for a Fortune 500 Company where he was responsible for operations in Europe, South Africa and Japan. Mr Webb has a degree in Business Studies and trained as an accountant with Wimpey plc. He was responsible for the Strategic Planning activities of the travel company RCI when it was acquired by Cendant Corporation. Mr Webb then became CFO of Cims, a marketing company in the financial services industry, where he was responsible for all accounting, financial planning, compliance and HR issues across three continents. After a number of years in this role he was appointed COO with the added responsibility for Operations and IT. Prior to joining Ark, Mr Webb held the position of Finance and Services Director at a voice, data and telecommunications company specializing in the convergence of these technologies.
	Doug Whitmer, Vice President of Sales, joined Power Analytics with more than 20 years of executive-level sales and marketing experience in the critical power and data center environments. Previously, he served as Vice President of Sales for the Global Accounts Division of Eaton Corporation.
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	Jeff Zadeh, MD, is Senior Research Director for IceCOLD and is a graduate of University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and The Alliance for Medical Management Education at UT Dallas. He has served on the Executive Committee of Dallas Diagnostic Association and as Chairman of Lonestar Provider Network. His responsibilities include developing and coordinating IceCOLD’s research projects.

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