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Speakers at Data Centre Excellence V

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Ashley Davis, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase

Ashley Davis is a Managing Director with JPMorgan Chase; he is responsible for their Global Datacentre strategy, technology sustainability program and Corporate HQ technology design. Ashley joined JPMC in 2005. Previously, Ashley was MD with CS Technology in EMEA, a specialist consulting business in mission critical design. Prior to that, Ashley held senior management positions with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. Ashley was awarded a MSc in 2005 from Reading University in Intelligent Building Design & Operation.

2Geoff Prudence, Chair of CIBSE Facilities Management Group

Geoff Prudence has an engineering background and experience in building maintenance, operations, facilities management strategy and implementation, working in both private and public sector organisations. He is Chairman of CIBSE Facilities Management Group and now also chairs the BIFM Data Centre.

2Andrew Jay, Global Corporate Services, CBRE

Andrew is a Senior Director within the Global Corporate Services team based in London. He is head of the EMEA Technology Practice Group.

Andrew is recognised as one of Europe’s leading advisors to the data centre and telecommunications industry and also benefits from in-depth knowledge of all aspects of technical real estate including corporate data centre dynamics.

Andrew is also responsible for the unique research provided by CB Richard Ellis into the Global Carrier Neutral Data Centre market and is a regular speaker at conferences including Data Centre Dynamics, Broad Group and Gartner.

2Professor Derek Clements - Croome Professor of Construction Engineering University of Reading

He is a Co-Director and founder of MSc Intelligent Buildings Course at the University of Reading where he is also a Director of  the  Intelligent  Buildings Research  Group. The second edition of the book Creating the Productive Workplace was  published  by  Routledge  in  2005. He is the editor and part author of this book and also Intelligent Buildings: Design, Management and Operation (publisher / Thomas Telford) which became available in 2004  and is also available in  Chinese.

He has a portfolio of several projects including sustainability, building facades, system reliability, building rating methodology and design quality (including ventilation) in schools and the effects of this on student learning, all funded by EPSRC/DTI. He is a visiting professor at several universities in China and  acts  as  an  external  PhD  examiner  in   Finland.  He  is  Vice-President  of  CIBSE  and  chairs  several  committees  including  one  on  intelligent  buildings  that has  several  hundreds  of  members  from  over  118  countries.

He  is  a  research  project  adviser  at  Reading University  and  is also  working  with  Middlesex  University  on  developing  interdisciplinary  built  environment  studies. He  sits  on  the  Engineering  and  Physical  Sciences  Research  Council  and  also  on  a  Panel  on  the  Dynamics  of  Ageing  for  the  Economics  and  Social  Sciences  Research  Council.

2Gerry DeMarco, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Gerry has worked in the Institutional Securities Group of Morgan Stanley since 1990. He is a Managing Director and is currently on a three-year assignment in London running the Global Datacenter Projects Team.  This is broadly composed of datacenter build projects, datacenter migration projects and staff relocation projects.

Previously he was in the Enterprise Computing Group as the Engineering and Operations Manager.  Gerry’s responsibilities have included Application and Datacenter Migrations, Legal Advisory and Consulting, Linux Engineering and Operations, Windows Engineering and Operations, Storage Engineering and Operations, and Hardware Engineering, Capacity Planning and Monitoring and Outsourcing Delivery. 

Prior to working at Morgan Stanley Gerry worked for a Wall Street Specialist House, Spear Leeds & Kellogg and at AVIS Rent-a-Car.   He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science & Math from St. John’s University, New York

2Mark Lewis is Senior Director Marketing & Alliances, Europe, Middle East & Africa for Riverbed Technology

Mark Lewis is Senior Director Marketing & Alliances, Europe, Middle East & Africa for Riverbed Technology. He is responsible for business development through targeted marketing programmes, developing the brand and raising awareness of WAN optimisation?? across the region.

In addition to driving Riverbed's EMEA-wide marketing activities, Mark also oversees high-level analyst and media relations and serves as a Riverbed spokesperson at key industry events. He and his team develop Riverbed's co-op marketing in the region, collaborating closely with partners to maximise effective delivery of joint initiatives.

2Christopher Edmonds, Managing Director Morgan Stanley

Chris Edmonds is a Managing Director for Morgan Stanley and heads up the European Distributed Computing & Telecommunications infrastructure groups as well as being global head of Enterprise Voice Services.   His teams are responsible for the engineering and operations of the technical  infrastructure. He is currently on the London IT management committee.

Prior to his current role, he headed up the International Asset Management development team being responsible for client reporting and portfolio attribution systems. Chris started his career in Morgan Stanley in 1987 as a graduate trainee and has held various IT positions in both New York and London.

2Owen McKee, Country Manager for the UK & Ireland

With over ten years experience in the IT industry, Owen is responsible for sales operations within the UK and Ireland, with a particular focus on the development of relationships with Avocent partners.

He previously held a similar role at Cyclades, before it was acquired by Avocent in March 2006. At Cyclades, Owen was instrumental in positioning the company as one of the major players in the UK’s infrastructure solutions market. Prior to joining Cyclades, he oversaw strategic global accounts for Fujitsu and IBM at Scantech UK Ltd.

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Florian Miciu , Chief Technology Officer, Chi-X Europe Limited

Florian Miciu is the Chief Technology Officer, leading Chi-X Europe’s technology group with a primary focus on technology development and deployment.

He brings more than 15 years experience building technology products and platforms, primarily electronic trading systems for equities and government debt, for capital markets institutions. Florian joined Chi-X Europe after a brief tenure at Turquoise, and prior to that spent ten years working in Credit Suisse’s technology and equity trading departments

John DarlingtonJohn Darlington, Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London

Professor John Darlington is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and head of the Social Computing Group (previously the Imperial College Internet Centre). Professor Darlington has a long and distinguished track record both in the development of novel software technologies and in the creation of facilities to improve the accessibility and ease of use of computational resources. These developments have included pioneering developments in functional programming languages, program transformation, functional skeletons, co-ordination forms and component-based application development frameworks and the founding and operation of the Imperial College Fujitsu Parallel Research Centre, the Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre, the London e-Science Centre the Imperial College Internet Centre.

In 2005 Professor Darlington and the London e-Science Centre led an influential UK e-Science Core Programme project: “A Market for Computational Services” This project involved a range of e-Science Centres and Universities (London, CLRC, Manchester, Southampton, Swansea and the Liverpool John Moores Astrophysics Research Institute) and commercial organisations (Sun Microsystems, SGI, NAg, Real Time Engineering and CSC). The project pioneered many of the developments now emerging in Cloud Computing and developed an architecture to reconstruct the Internet as a series of open markets in use-on-demand, pay-per-use services, including Web Services, brokering organisations and utility computing platforms. This architecture was fully implemented and demonstrated in a series of case studies including the brokering of pay-per–use Web Services onto alternative utility computing platforms, applications to engineering mesh-generation services and the brokering of instrument time.

Computer Science & Math from St. John’s University, New York

Barry MaidmentBarry Maidment, Product Manager


Barry Maidment has over twenty year’s experience within the IT and datacoms industry. Initially as a technical manager covering UPS systems, he understand how crucial it is to support key data centre infrastructure and that down time.  Barry migrated into Fibre Optic technology and then later became Product Manager for a data centre infrastructure company.  With a broad knowledge and understanding of Data centre infrastructure including, power, monitoring and cooling, Barry joined the world’s leading enclosure company Rittal.  As the IT Product Manager Barry continues to drive innovative and exceptional products for Rittal into the IT sector.  He also comments

“Rittal is a perfect fit for any IT Product Manager, their products are exceptionally well  designed and their breadth of supply from power, cooling, enclosures, monitoring and security is impressive.  Going green was never a fad for Rittal, they just called it good engineering”

2Graeme Buchanan, Programme Director, National Australia Bank

Graeme was the Data Centre Programme Director for National Australia Bank, taking the programme from business case through build and onto migration.  The project was a design and build of a tier 3 data centre on a greenfield site, together with a lift and shift migration over a long weekend to the new site.  Graeme is currently exploring commercial opportunities to realise better commercial value out of NAB’s excess data centre capacity and consulting on data centre developments in Australia.

A Chartered Accountant with 16 years in the oil industry before joining NAB in 2004, Graeme has experience of a wide range of commercial, marketing and project roles.

2Hassan Moezzi , Director, Future Facilities Ltd 

Graduated with BSc in Physics and MSc in Nuclear Science & Engineering from University of London in 1978.

As one of the original founders of Flomerics Plc in 1988, he led the company in developing the first generation of industry specific Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software.  FLOTHERM became the number one simulation tool in the design of cooling systems for the electronics industry worldwide.  In turn its sister product, FLOVENT, became the number one CFD software for the design of ventilation systems for built environments.

He was the Director for Business Development for Flomerics until January 2004 when he resigned to set up Future Facilities Limited (FFL) with 2 other colleagues.  At FFL we have pioneered the concept of the Virtual Facility (VF) in order to address the increasingly complex thermal/environmental issues faced by the owner/operators throughout Design and Operational timeline of the modern Mission Critical Facility (MCF).  We use full 3 dimensional mathematical modelling techniques to track the physical behaviour of a data centre in the past, present or future.  Among the deliverables is the ability for the owner operator to simulate the cause and effect of load capacity planning, energy usage as well as associated costs.  Furthermore, we have the complementary consultancy services that calibrate the VF against the actual facility in question.

To this end FFL has developed the, 6SigmaDC CFD based software modules to create and maintain the VF for any data centre.
 
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