Domenic Alcaro is the Vice President of Mission Critical Services and Software. Prior to his current role, Domenic held technical, sales, and management roles during his more than 14 years at Schneider Electric.

In his most recent role as Vice President, Enterprise Sales, he is responsible for helping large corporations improve their enterprise IT infrastructure availability. Please Check out Domenic's blog "From the Data Center Trenches" at http://blog.schneider-electric.com/datacenter/author/domenicalcaro/

Michael Siteman is Executive Vice President of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group and is based in the firm’s West Los Angeles corporate office.  He is tasked with building Jones Lang LaSalle's DCS group in Southern California and the Western region. The DCS group provides the full range of critical environment services to the firm’s clients including site selection, site due diligence, project financing, development, project management, public incentives negotiations and ongoing critical facilities management. 

With 25 years of experience in the industry, Michael has developed a deep understanding of commercial real estate leases, service level agreements, and has fine-tuned his negotiating skills during his tenure as a tenant representative with several tenant representation firms including Bailes & Associates, and The Staubach Company.  Building on his background in telecommunications and data centertransactions since 1989, Michael served as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Marketing for Base Partners, Inc., a developer of mission critical facilities with data centerprojects throughout the U.S.

Michael earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and English from California State University at Northridge, and is a licensed helicopter pilot and a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programmer.  Michael is also a founding member and current President of 7x24 Exchange International Southern California Chapter and currently serves on the board of 7x24 Exchange International. 

Dr. Tim Oergel is an accomplished mission critical sales professional with over 25 years of experience in the power generation industry. Tim is currently a data center design/build consultant for (FGC) Facility Gateway Corporation (Madison, WI). His most recent project involved supporting the infrastructure requirements and procurement of an MTU 2250kW Generator for the company’s new PlusOne Data Center located at W 601 Polk Street in Chicago.  Tim also writes articles and white papers for ‘The Genset Doc,’ a news column on FGC’s website.

Prior to joining FGC, Tim spent 15 years in power systems sales and marketing for OEM distributors carrying brands like MTU Onsite Energy and Caterpillar. He also spent some years ‘in the field’ working on installation and testing of electrical switchgear, and on various engine platforms while serving in the USAF and US Army. Tim is currently the Founder and CEO of Leadership Logic, which is now in its seventh year as an executive training and leadership development firm.

In 2000, Tim earned a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education (BSOE) from Wayland Baptist University located in Plainview, Texas. He also attended the University of Phoenix, in Arizona, but after 9/11, he decided to transfer his MBA program to Phoenix University of Theology where he completed a Master of Ministry (M. Min.) degree in 2003, and went on to obtain a Doctorate in Marketplace Ministry (D..MpM.) in 2005. 

Terry Vergon has been involved in the management of mission critical facilities for over 30 years.  His experience ranges from nuclear power to high-tech manufacturing, and data centers.  He has held positions as vice president, managing director, and director.  He holds a B.A. from Northwest Christian College and an M.B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University.

 Terry provides data center and high tech manufacturing leadership on a global basis.  As the former Global Data Center Manager for Google and other similar positions at other companies, he has built many of the organizations and mission critical processes that have become standards and are used today.  He is a globally recognized expert in mission critical operations.

 Terry is the author of Building Mission Critical Facilities Organizations and a  weekly blog on mission critical facilities organizational issues. 

Ian Bitterlin has a BA in Mathematics, a First Class BSc(Hons) in Technology, is a postgraduate Diploma in Design & Innovation and has an Honorary Doctorate in Management. His career has taken him from the design office through site installation, engineering, service and sales to senior management.

Seven years engineering with Schindler Lifts led to fourteen years with Demag (rotating machines and variable speed drives).  During this time Ian wrote numerous technical papers on the subject of variable speed drive systems in the material handling industry and presented them at international conferences including Hanover and Chicago, as well as in the UK.  By 1990 he had reached the position of Divisional Manager of Mannesmann Demag in the UK.

Moving in 1991 to Anton Piller (UPS) for seven years as a Director was the start of his long involvement within the critical power and cooling industry. Several posts within the Emerson organisation culminated in Managing Director of Emerson Network Power and in 2003 Ian was awarded the Emerson Network Power global Business Leader Award.

Since 2004 appointments have included VP EMEA and AsiaPac for Active Power Inc (flywheel UPS), International Sales Director for Chloride (UPS), CTO of Prism Power Ltd and, now, CTO of Ark Continuity a developer of low-carbon data-centres of the highest possible availability.

In 2009 Ian was awarded with an ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry’ in London by Broadgroup. Ian was a co-author for the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers publication Guide K, Electricity in Buildings, in two chapters, UPS Systems and MV Switchgear.  

Carrie Higbie has been involved in the computing and networking industries for over 30 years. She currently works with The Siemon Company as the Global Director for Data Center Solutions and Services in support of end-users and active electronics manufacturers. 

She has extensive background in all aspects of networking and application development as a consultant, project manager, and Fortune 500 executive running data centers with multimillion dollar budgets,  and has taught at a collegiate level. Carrie has an MBA and MSBS.  She speaks at industry events, end user education forums and various conferences globally. 

Carrie is also the former President of the BladeSystems Alliance and member of the Board of Directors. She participates in the IDC enterprise expert panel, Uptime Institute, numerous green building panels and groups, the Ethernet Alliance, PMI, Share, and various other industry panels. She is an RCDD/NTS and has had 38 certifications in the industry throughout the years.  

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