Ron Pepin is a Data Center Operations Executive with over 25 years of Data Center Operations, Data Center Facilities Construction, Technology Architecture Design and Facilities GREEN “Sensible Environmental Systems”, visionary and pioneer. In 2010 he deployed the first real time data center efficiency analytics linking IT DCIM and Corporate Realty Services BAS/BMS elements together providing Environmental Impact, PUE and DCIE statistics in real time executive dashboard format. He is currently working on new solutions for providing Data Centers with systems, services and analytics capable of achieving 70-80% savings in future energy costs.

KC Mares has been focused on energy efficiency with data centers for over 10 years, building about $8 billion of data centers and operating data centers in over 20 countries, working for Google, Yahoo, Equinix, Exodus and many other data center leaders. In addition to co-chairing the SVLG Data Center Energy Efficiency demonstration program, KC Mares leads data center energy efficiency programs, site selection and other efforts for FaceBook, LBNL, US DoE, and many others. He has been working with Rumsey Engineers on the design of data centers with PUEs below 1.08, and with companies to develop and design highly efficient data centers and complete site selections. He is also currently developing a large data center power park with multiple sources of renewable energy. Recently KC Mares led Yahoo!’s worldwide data center strategy, development and construction, lowering energy consumption to achieve Yahoo!’s carbon neutrality. He managed performance-based energy contracts for Johnson Controls and Honeywell, and developed co-generation and renewable energy plants. KC Mares has co-chaired the SVLG's Energy Committee and served as director of energy for Sun Microsystems and Target’s stores. His work has earned numerous awards, including twice EnergyStar Partner of the Year. He has crafted legislation for energy solutions and is a pundit of long-term energy solutions that improve the quality of life, environment and sustained economic vitality.

Bruce Myatt, PE is a registered Mechanical Engineer, Founder of Silicon Valley’s Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT), and Director of Mission Facilities Projects at M+W Group iin San Francisco. 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. He 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. Bruce has actively pioneered server cooling solutions that isolate air flow in order to prevent the “recirculation” and “short-circuiting” of chilled air in data center environments. He has been selected as a technical advisor to DOE, EPA, CEC, LBNL, and PG&E Committees focused on Data Center Energy Efficiency, and he has provided data center energy efficiency presentations and panel discussions to audiences at Data Center Dynamics, Next Generation Data Centers, The Data Center Summit, Data Centers 21, Cisco’s Executive Green Data Center Round Table, HP Executive Briefings, Intel’s Great Eco Debates, 7x24 Exchange National Conference, Uptime Institute, IFMA, Building Automation, Teladata Converging Technologies, Crescent Technologies, and several PG&E Customer Energy Efficiency conferences. Bruce is Co-Chairman of the CFRT Energy Committee and High Density Data Center Committee; member of the Board of Advisors and Technical Columnist for “Mission Critical” Magazine; member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Committee; Board Advisor to 6Connect Inc., Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sigma Phi Delta International Social-Professional Engineering Fraternity; and, recently, a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area.

Tommy Darby has worked for Texas Instruments for 35 years from the time when our first mainframes ruled the Hollerith cards to the time of Blade servers. Datacenter experience began with mainframes, then transitioning to distributed computing, and then consolidating back into Datacenters. After the full cycle back to Datacenters, then worked through transitioning these rooms full of servers into real Datacenters with hot row / cold row room layouts. Tommy was the project manager over the design and commissioning of T.I’s newest Datacenters in Dallas, Texas, Bangalore, India, Clark, Philippines, and Nice, France. He has been a Contributing member of Green Grid since their inception representing T.I. and is currently working Worldwide Datacenter Strategy for Texas Instruments.

Gino Coladonato is a Senior Manager of IT at Qualcomm. Since 2002, Gino has focused on data center program management, which includes data center implementation, optimization, and strategy. Gino is a key contributor to the development and execution of several strategic data center initiatives, including global regionalization and a recent shift toward modular data centers as ways to reduce Qualcomm’s capital investment and energy consumption relating to data centers. Accomplishments: • New data center deployments in California, Nevada, North Carolina, Bangalore & Hyderabad India • IT Operations Center deployment - a 24/7/365 control center covering Qualcomm’s global IT Infrastructure • Data center optimization; capacity management, trending, and forecasting • Regional Data Center strategy development and execution • Qualcomm’s first modular (container) data center deployment (San Diego October 2010)

Over 17 years of business experience devoted to Information Systems development, deployment and operations. For the last 10 years Nishi has worked as Data Center Architect for Intel Corporation in number of roles from high density computing, Data Center Migration/Optimization, Performance Engineering to Consolidation. Nishi’s current focus is developing and productizing Intel IP for datacenter innovation, Datacenter optimization engagements, influencing platform technologies through key learning’s on customer engagements and creating industry mindshare/awareness for Intel Architecture.
Before joining Intel Nishi has another 7 years experience, working for DaimlerChrysler as a Senior Specialist. At EDS, She was a software developer.
Nishi also have BS in Electronics and Electrical Communication engineering and MS in Computer Science

Danny Martinez is the Territory Sales Manager for Eaton Corporations power quality division and supports the Southwest. Danny has 15 years of Datacenter infrastructure experience and has worked for varies UPS manufacturers. Danny graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and brings a wealth of knowledge about trends and practices in today’s evolving datacenter market. His responsibility is to support Consultant Engineers, Electrical contractors, and work directly with end-users on design and implementations of various Eaton power quality products.

Mark Szalkus is a Marketing Manager at GE Digital Energy's Power Quality business, responsible for the ATS, SPD, PSG and UPS product lines in North America. He has over 20years experience in electrical distribution and power quality businesses, with leadership roles in field service, application engineering, service engineering, and marketing.
Mr. Szalkus has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering Technology. He is also a member of The Green Grid, NFPA, and Uptime Institute.

Bill Tschudi is a Principal Investigator for the Applications Team in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The applications team is tasked with bridging researchers and real world application of emerging technology. Bill currently leads LBNL’s data center and cleanroom energy efficiency projects. Bill is a licensed mechanical engineer with over 35 years of experience in design of high tech, mission critical and industrial facilities, and power plants. He is a member of ASHRAE and participates in Technical Committees TC9.11 - Cleanspaces; and TC 9.9 which addresses Datacom Facilities. Prior to joining LBNL, Bill managed multi-disciplined engineering offices for leading firms in the design of clean room and data center facilities and was a project manager for cleanroom design projects. Prior experience also included engineering management for industrial and power projects.

Karen Shockley has an extensive IT background that includes all phases of the systems engineering life cycle. Currently Director of the Amtrak’s Enterprise Data Centers, she is responsible for the 24 X 7 operation of over 1700 mid-range servers and mainframes. Karen began her career in the Air Force, learning structured programming methodologies and concentrating on Quality Assurance. After nine years the in the Air Force, she taught executive seminars, created Informix database applications, set up Live Test demonstrations and led technical proposal efforts for large scale UNIX systems. Moving to SAIC, Karen led an integration effort for a Corporate Executive Information System. She has designed and implemented Data Warehouses for EDS, as well as managed programs, schedules, budgets and personnel. Karen led Tiger Team efforts at Amtrak, was the Mainframe liaison to IBM, managed the operational effort for an SAP implementation and has achieved her Project Management Professional and INCOSE certifications as well as her ITIL v3Foundation certification. Karen has a degree in Physics from Miami of Ohio and a Master of Science in Computers from the University of Oklahoma. She has published articles on Data Warehousing, Meta Data, Data Center Management and Customer Relationship Management.

Matt Stamper, MPIA, MS, CISA, serves as the Vice President of Managed & Professional Services at redIT where he oversees the development and implementation of redIT’s suite of dedicated and cloud-based, managed service and security solutions. Stamper acts as the technical liaison between functional groups within redIT, ensuring continuity and quality control across the company.

Prior to joining redIT, Stamper served as Vice President of Development for CFO Strategies, driving the development of IT governance software for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, risk management, and other mandates facing public companies. Previously, Stamper spent nearly 10 years with AT&T’s Enterprise Hosting and Global Services Divisions, providing a strong foundation of experience to understand and meet the IT infrastructure and managed services needs of a diverse range of companies. Stamper’s executive-level experience with independent data center, content delivery, and IT services companies provides a unique perspective and comprehension of entrepreneurial environments and the requirements of fast-growing customer organizations. Stamper is a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He speaks frequently about IT governance at a range of professional organizations, industry events, and graduate schools.

Akhil 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, 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, Akhil had worked at Dell, Inc. as a Product Thermal Engineer, where designed and deployed thermal solutions for Small Form Factor (SFF) desktops.

Mark Gilmore, President and co-Founder, has established Wired Integrations, first and foremost, as a customer centric organization. His priority is focused on providing the best support and services available to our customers and partners. As a result, Wired Integrations has and will maintain the highest customer satisfaction ratings available. As an example, Wired Integrations is distinguished as having maintained a customer satisfaction rating in excess of 90% in the annual IBM Customer Satisfaction Survey, for the past 10 years. The average rating historically for partners in this survey has been in the mid 80’s.

Dennis DeCoster is the founder and CEO of MISSION CRITICAL WEST INC., a critical facilities infrastructure consulting/contracting and systems commissioning firm founded in 2000 and based in Southern California. He received his undergraduate training at Rutgers University with graduate training in engineering, marketing and law from Princeton, Rutgers and Seton Hall Universities. Mr. DeCoster has over 25 years experience specifying, installing and/or commissioning UPS systems, CPS systems, Standby Generators, STS, ATS, Flywheels, Lead Acid, Nickel, Lithium Battery systems, Precision Cooling/CRACs, Switchgear, PDUs, Racks Power, Container Systems, BMS/NMS Monitoring & Management Systems, Fire Suppression Systems, Access Flooring Systems, and other critical facilities infrastructure.

Mr. DeCoster currently serves as MC West’s Executive Principal as well as its primary consultant/project manager for significant projects. In recent years, he has been lead consultant for major reliability and availability assessment studies for Los Angeles County, and several public corporations, been retained as lead design consultant for major private and municipal Data Center UPS expansions. He has served on Design-Build bid evaluation teams for firms involved in major data center expansions, and leads the company’s commissioning effort. Mr. DeCoster has acted both as Owner’s Representative for commissioning overview/management of critical facilities done by other commissioning agencies, as well as taking the role of directly commissioning facilities themselves. MC West has commissioned eight (8) such facilities in the last year alone. Mr. DeCoster has also served as Construction Project Manager for large Tier II-IV data centers and/or Design-Build projects under other national A&E firms. Mr. DeCoster has successfully managed some 150 such projects to date, either under his own license, or working for others. He also consults to Wall Street on such topics as emerging technologies and alternative energy directions, in addition to data center design and critical facilities infrastructure.

Michael Fluegeman is a registered Professional Engineer (electrical) with over 25 years of power experience, and over 10 years experience with related mechanical and life-safety systems. He is recognized nationally as a leading engineering consultant for critical facilities and data centers. He is based in Los Angeles, CA and has extensive hands on experience including property assessments, conceptual design, project management, construction support, business development, commissioning, service level agreements, site-specific operating manual development and operator training for critical support systems. He joined PlanNet Consulting in 2007. PlanNet is an independent technology consultant focused on helping clients navigate data center change.

Michael has been dedicated to data center consulting and engineering for almost his entire career. Projects include data centers for Bank of America, Cedars-Sinai Health Systems, NetApp, Mentor Graphics, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, EchoStar, City National Bank, Capital Group, Disney, Safeco Insurance, Mercury Insurance Group, St. Joseph Health System, UCLA, USC, County of Riverside, County of San Luis Obispo, Navy/Marine Corps, Broadcom, Oracle, Chevron and Toyota.

Prior to Joining PlanNet Consulting he was Director of Engineering for Power Management Concepts. Previously he was Vice President and Principal of Critical Facilities at Syska Hennessy Group, where he was the technical team leader of the national critical facilities group delivering multiple design-build projects across the country. Earlier engagements include PRK Associates, many years’ critical facilities experience with Emerson / Liebert and beginning at Westinghouse in the early 80s.

Michael has spoken at industry conferences including Afcom’s Data Center World (Assessment Tutorial), the 7x24 Exchange (Case Studies) and the Data Center Users’ Group (Commissioning). He provided technical content and editing for “Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment”, a hard-bound IEEE Press Power Engineering publication. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati Engineering, electrical power, and an IEEE member. He participates in local and national Afcom, Data Centre Dynamics and 7x24Exchange conferences.

Kevin has spent the last 20 years in various senior management roles in the high technology industry. Kevin has been involved in many network and data center technologies including Data Center Security, SaaS, core networking, Fiber to the Home, metro Ethernet, and WiFi. Most recently Kevin was a consultant to many leading companies building out next-generation networks. Kevin’s experience throughout the networking space give him a unique perspective in the data center and the requirements to build solutions managed and served from the data center.

Mr. Novotny joined Vette Corp. as its Chief Technology Officer in 2006. As a world-recognized leader in electronic and computer systems cooling, including the physical technology, mechanical, thermal, and power architecture, and data center cooling, he is one of the few industry experts in electronic cooling and packaging to be distinguished as an A.S.M.E. Fellow.

Mr. Novotny's experience spans over 25 years, leading multi-discipline international development teams delivering cutting edge technology and products exceeding technical requirements with Aavid Thermalloy, Sun Microsystems, DEC, Codex, Magnavox, and Bell Laboratories. Mr. Novotny is a co-founder of the ASHRAE TC 9.9 technical committee whose mission is to create industry standards for data center cooling, and was an influential member of the PCI and InfiniBand industry committees that defined new interconnect bus architecture standards. He holds 16 patents to date, with several patents pending. He is the author of several publications across the industry.

Mr. Novotny is an A.S.M.E. Fellow, an I.E.E.E. senior member, and a member of I.M.A.P.S., ASHRAE-TC 9.9. He has earned Masters and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.

Eric Woods is a senior analyst contributing to Pike Research’s smart grid and green IT advisory services including in-depth coverage of green IT issues such as green data center markets, as well as the smart grid market in Europe. He has over 16 years of experience as an analyst and consultant on new technology trends. Before joining Pike Research, Woods was Government Practice Director at Ovum. He was responsible for directing research into government IT issues, providing advice to government and public sector clients, and supporting IT companies targeting the market. Previous to this role, he was director of Ovum’s research in the areas of information and knowledge management. Woods has worked on consultancy assignments with a wide range of clients, including public and private sector technology users and global IT players, and a wide range of small and growing technology companies. He also serves as Knowledge Centre Director for Business IT at Knowledge Peers, an executive network for SMBs. Prior to joining Ovum, Woods worked as an analyst, developer and project manager in public sector IT. Woods has a MSc in Information Systems from the University of Brighton and a Ph.D. in English Literature and MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex.