 - Shervin Bakhtiari
Principal Consultant & Business Development, Actel Consulting
Shervin is a multi-disciplinary ICT professional with 15 years of experience driving emerging technology evaluation and adoption for a wide variety of customers and clients including telcos/mobile, enterprise verticals (such as financials), and venture investments. Based in Shanghai, he's currently a Principal Consultant with Actel Consulting, a leading specialist strategy and technology consulting firm. Prior to Actel, he held senior positions at Emotive Communications, Avaya, Ubiquity Software, Cisco, and Brooks Automation with work experience in Silicon Valley, Western Europe, and for the past seven years in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Shervin is an industry evangelist and has been involved in VC capital acquisition for various companies and he is also active in innovation/startup advisory & incubation as well as angel investments. Shervin holds both a Bachelors and Masters of Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
 - Paul-Francois Cattier
Global Vice President Data Center, Schneider Electric
Mr Cattier joined MGE UPS Systems in 2005. When Schneider Electric acquired APC, he was responsible for merging MGE and APC. He has more than 27 years of IT experience in both the products and the services segment. Prior to APC by Schneider Electric, he held different positions in sales and management functions in companies including Alcatel, Philips, Digital, Cabletron & Anixter.
 - Zhou Chaonan (周超男)
President of Range International Information Group (润泽国际信息港); Member of “Industrial Layout Research Group” of National Data Center (国家数据中心); Deputy Chairman and Standing Director of The Special Committee of Internet of Things Technology Products, China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (CECC，中国电子商会); Vice Secretary General of Research committee on Reform Strategy, Hebai Province（河北省改革战略研究会）.
 - Marc Faig
CIO, AST Modular
Marc Faig is the Chief Innovation Officer at AST Modular, a Barcelona based engineering firm specialized in Secure, Modular and Energy Efficient datacenters. Marc has more than 12 years’ experience in the global datacenter arena. He has designing and audited over 200 Data Centers to date according to Industry Standards such as TIA 942, Uptime Institute’s Tier levels and ASHRAE’s. In his CIO role, Marc's mission is to provide technology leadership to the industry through innovative datacenter solutions and services according to three cornerstone values: energy efficiency, modularity and resiliency. Marc is an Electro-Mechanical Engineer from the University of Catalonia and holds an MBA from the University of Barcelona. Fluent in 3 languages, in the past he has been involved in Green Energy Projects in both academic and business environments.
 - Lin Guanming (林光明)
Technical Director of Internet Data Center Operation Branch, Shichuan Branch, China Telecom
 - Terry Graham
Research Associate, BroadGroup
Terry Graham is a Research Affiliate at Hong Kong University's Technology Research Project (TRP), a leading research and consulting organization in Hong Kong. Terry has been engaged on a wide range of telecom and ICT projects, focused primarily on Asia, performing detailed research, political assessment and investment due diligence. He is widely published in the sector, including Telecommunications Development in Asia (HKU Press, 2008). He has completed public policy projects commissioned by the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the Hong Kong Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, APEC, PECC, ITU, UNDP, UNESCAP, Asia Foundation, European Union (EU), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), the World Bank, the United States State Department, and the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), among others. Projects have addressed topics as diverse as National Information Infrastructure (NII) polices and programs, national competitiveness and promotion of information society, social media and disruptive technology strategy, investment analysis, and executive training. At one time he was a research analyst with the U.S. Information Technology Office (USITO) in Beijing, and has worked with the Institute for the Future, Tarifica, Ovum, and others. He has a B.A. from Swarthmore College and is fluent in Mandarin, German and French.
 - Zheng Hong (郑 宏)
Secretary General of Data Center Industry Alliance of China (中国数据中心产业发展联盟); General Manager of Chinese IDC Industry Alliance Network (中国IDC产业联盟网)。
 - Dr Bryan B. Huang
Managing Director, T-Systems P.R. China
Dr. Bryan Huang has been the Managing Director of T-Systems P.R. China since Sept 2010. Dr. Bryan Huang started his career more than 20 years ago at chemical and pharmaceutical giant Hoechst AG in Germany (now Sanofi-Aventis Group). In 1996 he joined KPMG Consulting and held various management positions such as Managing Director in Japan and China, and Global Executive Vice-President . Prior to joining T-Systems, he was President at VeryNex Capital in China. Dr Huang graduated with doctor's degree in Applied Mathematics from University of Bonn.
 - William Huang (黄伟)
Founder and CEO of GDS
As the founder of GDS, Mr. Huang has rich experience in IT industry and the outsourcing service area. With unique insight and abundant management experience in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery industry, he has led GDS to be an industry leader in the High Availability IT Service field based on world-class data centers. Before founding GDS, Mr. Huang had more than 10 years' experience as company founder and executive in China's IT service industry, and secured the success of several large IT projects for financial institutions.
 - Zhang Jian (张 健）
Vice General Manager of Center for System Integration, Tianjing Branch, China United Network Communication Co. Ltd. (中国联合网络通信有限公司)
 - Zhou Junjun(周俊君)
China Mobile Beijing Branch（中国移动北京公司）
 - Lisa Kuk (曲颖)
Greater China IT Business Vice President, Data Center Solution Group General Manager, Schneider Electric
Lisa Kuk is mainly responsible for the Data Center solutions in Greater China region, the department has integrated all the business of Schneider Electric, including IT Business, Power Distribution, Building Automation, Industrial Automation and Energy management, Next-generation data center in China to run the whole life cycle services from Consulting Service, Design, Construction to professional services. With its unique positioning as well as covering all fields of professional experience, Lisa Kuk leading their team has made a remarkable achievement, and established market leadership in next-generation data center field. Lisa Kuk has a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the field of data center has successfully led the team involved in the design and construction of large data centers in multiple Greater China, including Hong Kong has been involved in the design of Hong Kong and Hutchison Telecom world's first 3G data centers, investment bank Goldman Sachs Asia headquarters data center, Nomura investment banking data centers in Asia Pacific and many famous projects. Prior to joining Schneider Electric, Lisa Kuk as the next-generation data center business Director in HP's Enterprise Business Group. Next-generation data center market is booming years, Lisa Kuk led the team to win a major industry headquarters level in the field of ultra-large-scale data center planning, design, construction and validation services.
 - Bernard Lecanu
President, European Data Centre Association
Bernard Lecanu began his professional career as a teacher after 5 years of which he joint AMP Group (now part of TYCO) where he continued for 15 years and became Division Director. Between 1984 and 1993 he was Managing Director of different companies for the BICC Group mainly in south of Europe for components and cables activities. He had his own company in the Information system business until 1995 and joint Siemens Group; he was appointed Managing Director for their French, Africa, South America and part of the Asia Market for OSP products. From 2000-2002 he was Vice President International for an activity of Corning Group .In his capacity he was responsible for the Data Center market ,and launch with his team a number of Data center Projects in Europe and Middle east. Since 2002, he is managing of consulting company BL International Consultant and specialises in the field of Access Network and Transmission, Marketing and Industrial Strategy. He is member of the co-Hosting association (Vice President); The EC commission of Data centre code of conduct; The French Marketing association and The APIA. M Lecany holds an MBA, he is author of several papers, he writes a French book: "Diversifier ses canaux de ventes pourquoi et comment". He has spoken at various forum about the Data center European market, including United States and Singapore.
 - Madam Tian Liming (田黎明)
Engineer, Manager of IDC & Cloud Calculation Operation Center, Unicom System Integration Limited Company (Shanghai)
 - Marty Ma
Lead Technical Solution Architect, Cisco
Marty is the Lead Technical Solution Architect in Cisco's APAC theater focusing on Cloud and Data Center products, designs, and solution architecture. He has been working with major accounts in Service Provider, Web 2.0, FSI, and Enterprise segment on designing and implementing large scale data center. Prior to his current role, Marty worked at Cisco's Headquarter as Product Manager and Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches and NX-OS since 2007, driving many of Cisco's latest technology innovation for Data Center such as vPC, FabricPath, and FCoE. Marty also worked as a Worldwide TAC Escalation specialized in LAN Switching, Wireless, L4-to-L7 Network Services, and IOS Architecture supporting Cisco's major Customers around the globe. Marty has been with Cisco since 2000, holding CCIE in Routing and Switching (#8197) and MS in Telecommunication from University of Pittsburgh. He has more than 15 years of experience in networking technologies and system administration.
 - Daniel Newman
Daniel Newman has served as the chief financial officer of GDSS since September 2011.
Prior to joining us in this capacity, Mr. Newman acted as an advisor to our company since 2009. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Newman served as a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch with responsibility for investment banking clients in the telecom, media, and technology sectors in Asia. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Newman acted as an advisor in the chairman's office of Reliance Communications in Mumbai, India. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Newman served as a managing director at Deutsche Bank with responsibility for investment banking clients in the telecom and media sectors in Asia. Mr. Newman previously worked as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers (and its successors) from 1997 to 2001 and at S.G. Warburg (and its successors) from 1983 to 1997 in London and HongKong. He has been based in Asia continuously since 1990. Mr. Newman received his bachelor's degree in history from Bristol University in the UK in 1983.
 - Nick Pilbeam
Director, PwC's Telecoms, Media & Technology
Nick is a Director in PwC's Telecoms, Media & Technology (TMT) strategy practice based in Hong Kong and a senior member of the firm's regional Telecoms Centre of Excellence. He is a telecoms engineer by training. Nick has over 20 years experience in the telecoms industry covering North and South America, Europe and the Far East. advised and worked with a range of TMT companies including Cisco, Sema Group, Octel Communications, Luxxon, Motorola and Tiaxa. His specialist areas of expertise include technology operational strategy, investment strategy, systems and software implementation, commercial due diligence and vendor management.
 - Mark Thiele
Executive Vice-President, Data Center Tech Switch
Mark has responsibilities across several functions at Switch. He will be maintaining his industry thought leadership activities and will also be working with the Switch team on new data center technologies, partnership development and cloud. Switch (http://www.switchlv.com) builds and operates the world's most powerful data center and technology ecosystem. The Switch campus environments were constructed by the company including the world's highest density, ultra-scale and most efficient data center - the 407,000 square foot Switch SuperNAP. Before coming to Switch Mark was VP of Data Center Strategy at ServiceMesh, the leading cloud management platform company. He is also Founder and President of Data Center Pulse, a not-for-profit group focused on improving efficiency in data centers and providing a voice for the owner/operators. Mark brings significant IT infrastructure and data center experience to the Switch team, which was developed over the years working with leading organizations like VMware, Brocade, Gilead, & HP. He is a globally recognized leader in efforts to improve the business readiness and efficiency of IT and is very active with industry groups like The Green Grid, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Infrastructure 2.0. Mark is an advisor to venture firms and startups and a globally recognized speaker at premier industry events.
 - Emmanuel Tong-Viet
Energy Efficiency SME, IBM
Emmanuel is Architect and Energy Efficiency Subject Matter Expert at the IBM Client Center in Montpellier, France. He is involved in international projects (Europe, South Africa, Asia-Pacific) around Data Center, Green IT and Sustainability aspects. One recent challenge was a major retrofitting of an existing production data center: the implementation of air containment and the use of free cooling. In line with the latest technologies in managing data centers, this data center is now a great asset for the clients. He also helps customers through workshops to optimize their existing Data Centers from IT to non-IT sides and build Energy Efficiency roadmaps. Delivering a holistic approach, he sees the power and cooling issue at the data center level. He was involved in the Montpellier Green Data Center implementation, where he strongly focused on having the best tools available to monitor and manage the energy for IT and non-IT resources. Emmanuel is also member of The Green Grid and author of several patents.
 - Jean Pascal Tricoire
President and CEO, Schneider Electric
Jean-Pascal Tricoire, 49 years old, joined Schneider Electric in 1986. He is President and Chief Executive Officer since 2006. His career at Schneider Electric has developed largely outside France in operational functions in Italy, China, South Africa and USA. Within the General Management, he served as Vice Executive President of the International Operating Division from 2002 before being appointed in 2004 Chief Operating Officer (COO). Moreover, Jean-Pascal is President of the France-China Committee since 2009. Jean-Pascal holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from ESEO in Angers, France, and a MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Lyon, France.
 - Eric Wang (王伟)
Founder, Unicross MSP
Eric Wang, founder of Unicross MSP, a startup formed in Apr 2012 with focus on managed services for enterprise data center. Before the adventure, he was maketing adminstration general manager in AT&T China, had been appointed as Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Symphony Telecommunications Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as SST, which is the first Sino-foreign telecommunication joint venture in China) by the Board Meeting on March, 2006, with responsibility of marketing, sales, pre-sales technical support, products development, etc. Eric has sufficient management experience in the telecommunications industry. He participated in SST as Sales Director in 2001 and was promoted to Business Director in 2005, in full charge of marketing and sales. Before joining the company, he worked as the Sales Manager in the Global Account Department for the Shanghai Representative Office of Concert, a joint venture of AT&T and BT, taking charge of the new business promotion to global MNC clients. From 1995 to 1999, Eric had taken the positions of Marketing Manager of the comsumer department, Senior Account Manager of the business department seperately in Southern China and Eastern China of AT&T. Eric Wang, holds bachelor's degree of Economics, Sun Yat-sen University, Computer Senior Programmer. He was received the qualification certificate of Project Management Professional in 2005.
 - Tony Wang
Vice President, T-Systems Greater China
Tony Wang now works as the Vice President of T-Systems Greater China and takes responsibility of business development for Chinese Multi-national Company, helping the company to provide end-to-end IT professional service to them, which includes strategy consultancy, system integration and operational service. Tony Wang has over 20 year's business development experiences and over 10 years' IT consultant experiences. He served BearingPoint in 2001 and helping the company develop into the No.1 brand in the market. Then he served for Juneyao Group and was responsible for extending companies' market share in many new business areas. During Tony's tenure in the Institute of Chinese Enterprises Development, Shanghai Jiaotong University as Associated Dean, he was in charge of case study of Chinese enterprises and analysis of their strategy and process. Tony Wang had substantial experience in both product and service marketing, and is familiar with a broad spectrum of industries, including automotive, energy, aviation and healthcare.
 - Gao Wei (高 巍)
Senior Engineer of Communications Standards Research Institute, China Academy of Telecommunication Research, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Main research areas include IP network and routing technology, measurement technology of IP network & equipment, cloud calculation, etc.
 - Dr. Gao Wenlong (高文龙)
Ph. D in Business Administration, Senior Engineer, Vice General Manager of Unicom System Integration Limited Company（联通系统集成有限公司）
 - Luo Yaoxing (罗耀兴)
President and Vice CEO of Zhongjin Data System Co. Ltd. (中金数据系统有限公司董事), also the main founding member of this company. He is the senior specialist in the design of data center and its operation management, especially on the large-scale, high-grade and high-density data center and cloud calculation data center.
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