Robert Aldrich, Senior Manager and Principal, Cisco Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions
Rob, Cisco's Data Center Market Manager, recently joined he company after 10 years in facilities design, deployment, and management. Rob has architected the power and cooling design for more than 20 enterprise class data centers in North America and the Asia Pacific region. His current role at Cisco involves working with Cisco IT and the data center product engineering teams to drive the green agenda at Cisco as part of Cisco's sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative, participation in The Green Grid, and EPA Climate Leaders.

Christian Belady, Principal Power and Cooling Architect, Microsoft
One of the most respected innovators in the electronics cooling and packaging industry, Christian recently moved to Microsoft as the principal power and cooling architect for its online business. Prior to this move Christian was a strategist for HP where his responsibilities included driving the technology direction in HP's server products as well as driving industry initiatives that benefit the customer environment. With over 60 patents, Christian is an ASME Fellow, an IMAPS Fellow, and a founding member of ASHRAE's TC9.9.

Dennis Cronin, Principal for Center of Excellence, Gilbane - Mission Critical
Dennis is Principal for Center of Excellence, Gilbane. He acted as original sponsor and a founder of what is now called the 7x24Exchange in the late 1980s. He continues to be active in that organization and emcees the Pass the Mike Session at 7x24Exchange's twice annual events. For over 30 years Dennis has been a leader in real estate, facilities, and the operations aspects of high technology operations. The greater part of his career has been with large fortune 500 organizations such as Macy's, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Smith Barney, and UBS. In 2003 Mr. Cronin founded Resilient Solutions LLC as a consulting firm dedicated to the continued enhancement and expansion of technology intense facilities. He holds the Bachelor's Degree, business administration and accounting from Villanova University.

Peter Curtis, President&CEO, Power Management Concepts
Peter is founder of Power Management Concepts, LLC, and brings more than 23 years of engineering, operations, and administrative experience to mission critical facilities industry. As vice president of Critical Systems at Bankers Trust Company, Senior Engineer at Securities Industry Automation Company (SIAC), Superintendent of Electrical Construction at Suffolk County Water Authority he facilitated the automation of data center work flow and documentation which lead to greater business reliability.

Kevin Dickens, Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering, Jacobs’Architecture and Engineering Practice
Kevin is a graduate of the University of Missouri and the Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering for Jacobs’Architecture and Engineering Practice in St. Louis. Kevin is registered in seven states and a LEED Accredited Professional, and proud to serve as a member of the Advisory Board for Engineered Systems magazine. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Dickens has been responsible for the mechanical design for a range of mission critical facilities in both the private and public sector including military command and control, national intelligence and commercial data centers, with a focus on HVAC systems.

Peter Funk, Jr. Partner, Duane Morris LLP
Peter practices in the area of energy law with a focus on energy generation projects; including on-site cogeneration, energy conservation and energy management installations, demand-side management projects such as advanced metering, renewable resource an 'green' generation, and energy-related financing matters. Peter has extensive experience in the area of utility law and has advised gas and electric utility companies and served as outside general counsel for a utility which co-owned a nuclear plant and has provided legal services to other utilities with interests in nuclear plants. He has advised many clients regarding regulatory compliance issues and also served as outside general counsel to an energy services company.

Scott Good, Manager of Technologies, Turner Construction
Scott draws on his strong technical expertise and extensive project experience to provide leadership for data and communication infrastructure projects. He is involved from development to commissioning in equipment pricing, expediting lead times, developing scope requisitions, and executive contracts. He has executive responsibilities to ensure developmental requirements from each project discipline are met as well as consulting on implementation of processes to unsure successful outcome of a project. Prior to his current position, Scott served as senior project director for CB Richard Ellis where he developed and led project managers specifically focused on Mission Critical Projects. During his career, Scott has managed data center development projects greater than 200,000-sq.ft.

Cyrus Izzo, National Critical Facilities Director and manager of the Information Technology Division, Syska Hennessy Group
Under Cyrus' leadership, the Critical Facilities Team focuses solely on designing, building and commissioning critical and hypercritical facilities for 24/7 data-driven enterprises.Clients include financial services, manufacturing, utilities, state and federal government agencies, health care providers, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, and biotech. He has over 20 years of management level project and client experience, including extensive involvement in all aspects of major building systems projects, incorporating a comprehensive approach blending facilities management, MEP design, IT, security, and construction to take uptime and reliability to a new level.

Jack McGowan, President&CEO, Energy Control
Jack is President and CEO of Energy Control Inc., an energy service company and system integrator. He is chairman of the U.S. Department of Energy GridWise Architecture Council. He is an author and has published five books including Direct Digital Control on Fairmont Press and over 125 articles. Jack was chosen by his peers as 2006 Visionary at the Builconn Intelligent Buildings and GridWise Expo. The Association of Energy Engineers admitted him to the 'International Energy Managers Hall of Fame' in 2003 and named him 'International Energy Professional of the Year' in 1997.

John Musilli, Data Center Operations Manager, Intel Corporation
John is data center operations manager at Intel Corporation. He entered Data Center Operations with 20 years entrepreneurial experience as a licensed General Engineering contractor providing facility and equipment maintenance support to utilities and governmental agencies. When approaching data center operations issues he was not encumbered by the historical methods and designs used to manage data centers. He looked for solutions from other industries and designs outside of traditional IT and communications suppliers. His designs and methodologies have provided practical solutions for data center environments.

Bruce Myatt, PE, Founder, Critical Facilities Roundtable
Bruce Myatt is a registered Mechanical Engineer and founder of the Critical Facilities Round Table. He has over 25 years of engineering consulting experience working with 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, and design and retro-commissioning programs. Bruce has actively pioneered server cooling solutions that isolate air flow in order to prevent air 'recirculation' and 'short-circuiting' in data center environments. Bruce is a Founder of San Francisco's Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT); Co-Chairman of the CFRT High Density Data Center Committee; member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Committee; Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sigma Phi Delta International Social-Professional Engineering Fraternity; and a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area.

Russ B Mykytyn, Owner, Campbell Company.
Russ brings almost 10 years of Liebert Rep Office Executive Management experience to Campbell, as well as over twenty eight years of marketing experience in the electrical, power and energy industries. Prior to joining Campbell, Russ was Vice President Marketing, DVL, Inc. Russ is co-founder and executive director 7x24Exchange Delaware Valley Chapter and co-founder of a large Princeton, NJ-advertising and marketing firm. Russ is former executive director of the National Association of Independent Lighting Companies. In addition, Russ played a key role as a strategist in the Green Lights and Energy Star programs.

Dean Nelson, GDS Director, Sun
Dean has been in the technology industry for 18 years, of which 15 have been with Sun. He spent four years in Sun manufacturing in roles ranging from component level debug to managing quality. This included helping the drive to achieve ISO 9002 certification. Dean joined the Sun Engineering community in 1993. He led systems and network administration support for some of Sun's largest and most complex R&D lab environments. Dean left Sun in 2000 to join a networking startup company called Allegro Networks. At Allegro, he built a world-class QA team, state of the art R&D lab environments and fully integrated automation system. In 2003, Dean came back to Sun joining the newly formed N1 organization. He orchestrated the integration of Terraspring and Center Run R&D labs and the merger of Sun Cluster into N1. In mid 2003, Dean took over management all of N1's R&D labs, build engineering, automation, and capital budget responsibilities world-wide. In 2004, he became a leading member of the Global Lab&Datacenter Design Services (GDS) team tasked with creating a strategy to standardize Sun's multi-billion dollar technical infrastructure portfolio. He was the architect of the GDS operating model and lead design engineer for lab and datacenter projects world-wide. In 2006, he became the GDS Director. Over the last 18 months, Dean has delivered the GDS strategy, executing the largest technical infrastructure consolidation in Sun's history. GDS bridges the gap between IT, Engineering and Facilities and is currently managing over $250M in datacenter design activity.

Glen Neville, Director of Engineering, Deutsche Bank
Glen is a licensed Electrical Engineer in New York working as the and has over 19 years of experience in the practice of engineering design, field-testing and commissioning of critical systems. Mr. Neville is a LEED®2.1 Accredited Professional and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University. His commissioning and troubleshooting experience include extensive work on multi-module UPS systems, static switches, generator paralleling systems, grounding systems, medium voltage switchgear, protective relaying systems, and low voltage switchgear installations. Mr. Neville has authored numerous short-circuit&coordination studies for critical system installations and also has significant experience in the measurement, evaluation, shielding, simulation, and analysis of low frequency magnetic fields and their affects on operating facilities. Mr. Neville is an active member of the Building Commissioning Association, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, New York City Electrical Code Committee, 7x24 Exchange, and the IEEE Industry Applications Society.

Thomas E. Reed, PE, Senior Director of Mission Critical Services, KlingStubbins
With more than 25 years of experience on technically complex mission-critical facilities, Thomas E. Reed, PE, KlingStubbins' Senior Director of Mission Critical Services, has led the successful development and implementation of some of the United States' most hardened and reliable technology-driven data centers. He has lectured at the university level on the topics of technology applications in facilities and has been published on the commissioning and reliable operation of mission-critical facilities.

Leonard Ruff, AIA, Associate Principal, Callison Architects
A 23-year veteran of corporate architecture, Leonard has dedicated the last 16 years of his career to understanding the specialized needs of mission-critical facilities, and finding smart new ways to meet them. His expertise is based on leading the design and development of facilities ranging from enterprise level data centers, to co-location and telecommunications facilities from extensive mainframe operations to highly densified server environments. His client's in these areas include Amazon.com, Starbucks, WAAVE Communications, Microsoft, Blue Cross, and Washington Mutual. Leonard is a founding member of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the 7x24 exchange. He speaks and publishes frequently on a range of topics related to mission-critical facilities.

Robert Sullivan, ComputerSite Engineering, Inc., Triton Technology Systems Inc. and the Uptime Institute
Robert 'Dr. Bob' F. Sullivan, PhD, had a 32-year engineering career at IBM. He was part of the IBM team that first identified zinc whiskers. Dr. Bob originated the cold aisle/hot aisle concept in 1993. For The Uptime Institute, Inc., he is a staff scientist and has performed detailed research on how computer room cooling actually works and teaches The Institute's seminar on high density cooling. For Triton Technology Systems Inc., he conducts computer room KoldPlans, KoldCheck cooling diagnostics and KoldWork performance remediations. For ComputerSite Engineering, Inc. Dr. Bob delivers raised-floor engineering services, helping clients exceed gross computer room densities of 50 watts/ft2.

Henry ML Wong, Intel Corporation
Henry is a senior staff platform technologist at Intel Corporation, enabling and evangelizing energy-efficient power and thermal technologies. Henyy is a 22+ year Intel veteran, with over 16 years of industry experience in digital and mixed signal processor development, including the first Intel Mobile Chipset (360SL), the first mobile Intel Pentium Processor (P54LM/P55C), and advanced mobile package technologies. He then spent 5+ years leading technology development and enablement of high-efficiency and high-reliability power-conversion techniques, component thermal solutions, and system clocking networks for the Intel Itanium, Itanium 2, and Intel Xeon processor platforms. Henry authored and enabled key technologies such as Adaptive Voltage Positioning, Modular Direct Power Connect, Server Component High Impingement Mode Cooling, and Programmable Geared Differential Clocking for Multi-Time Domain Architectures.

Stephen Worn, Global Conference Chairman, Data Center Dynamics, OT Partners
Stephen has been involved with industry-leading customers across the world for over 20 years as an industrial and ICT engineer; with over eight years in Asia, across the Americas and again back on a pan-European level. Stephen was the Head of Technology Services for Dimension Data UK, where he was also their acting Practice Manager for Data Centres, Storage Solutions and Intelligent Buildings.