THE FUTURE OF DATA CENTER UPS POWER AT SCALE

Robert Thorogood Guest Speaker, Executive Director, HDR | Hurley Palmer Flatt

By combining his degree at Imperial College with industrial training with Hawker Siddeley in the early 1980s, Robert quickly moved into R&D in the areas of switchgear, controls, machines and transformers. With this excellent academic and practical grounding, he then moved to his first M&E engineering consultancy with James R Briggs, where he worked on a variety of projects from commercial to historic buildings to Royal Academy to prisons! In 1989, Robert then moved to a multi-disciplinary consultancy, Aukett, who at the time were designing and overseeing the construction of data centres for the likes of Royal & Sun Alliance and Marks & Spencer. Robert quickly took up the reins of projects from Lloyds Bank and GSK both in London and Stevenage. Over the years, Robert developed this capability within Aukett culminating during the dot.com boom times with projects for Level 3, Worldcom and BT to name a few. Looking for a new challenge, Robert joined Hurley Palmer Flatt in 2004 and immediately started on a range of data centres for the likes of Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch; these were all high profile, high end technology data centres being delivered quickly and effectively. Since then, Robert has led the change in data centre design, moving towards adiabatic cooling, fresh air cooling and alternative power delivery processes such as distributed redundancy, these have all been part of a continual evolving design to meet the requirements and demands of the data centre market. Robert continues to specialise in critical engineering design and delivery, but also applies his capabilities to other related areas such as trading buildings and healthcare infrastructure. Although he is based in London, he now spends a lot of time in the integration process with HDR’s TMT design teams to offer critical engineer design solutions to clients on a regional and global basis.

Michael SheppardTechnical Sales Manager, USA and Canada, Piller Power Systems Inc.

Michael has more than 30+ years’ experience in the power industry. As Regional Manager at Piller Power Systems, he is involved in the application of UPS systems for mission critical power. Prior to joining Piller, he was Director of Power Quality for a Swiss based company doing business in the US for over ten years. And prior to that was involved in Industrial Automation which included equipment from PLC to AC/DC VFD.

Dietrich HabelTechnical Manager, Piller Germany GmbH & Co.KG

Dietrich Habel has degree in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and having previously worked for Tyco Electronics and Siemens AG. He joined Piller in 2000. Today he supports the Piller organisations in India and South East Asia.

Ambrose McNevinEvent Host

Over more than 20 years in B2B Tech Publishing, Ambrose McNevin has led some of the biggest tech publishing brands. He was Editor-in-chief of Computer Business Review from May14–Jan17. His previous role was as launch editor and content director of Datacenter Dynamics Focus US and Europe, and where Ambrose further expanded the print and online brand into APAC, LATAM and Brazil (2008–2014). Other roles include UK launch editor for Computer Reseller News and Editor-in-chief at Information Week UK.

Dean Richards President & CEO, Piller Power Systems Inc.

Dean Richards is President and CEO of Piller Power Systems Inc. With over 30 years of experience in the power quality field, Dean starting his career at British Steel in the UK, where he worked his way up from an electrical apprentice to electrical engineer status before joining Mitsubishi Electric where he held various engineering and sales positions in Japan and the USA. Dean joined Piller in 2010. He is a chartered engineer and holds a first class honors degree from Swansea University in Wales.

Mark LeeManaging Director, Piller UK Limited

Mark is Managing Director of Piller UK Limited with business development and operations responsibility for the UK and Ireland and over 25 years of experience within the UPS industry, eleven of those with Piller. He has gained extensive experience managing all aspects of product and customised applications to provide market leading mission critical power protection solutions.

Dieter Tolsdorf Sales Director DACH, Piller Germany GmbH & Co.KG

Dieter Tolsdorf, has been working in the field of electrical power generation and distribution for 25 years, with more than 10 years in the field of UPS and has extensive experience in renewable energies. He has been responsible for the Piller, DACH region since 2018.

Daniel Bianconi Sales Director Export, Piller Germany GmbH & Co.KG

Daniel graduated as a Power Electronics engineer, and has 25 years’ experience providing customized high quality power supply solutions to clients in different industries. He joined Piller in 1996 and is responsible for Piller Sales in the Export region which includes Eastern Europe, Benelux, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Brazil and Latin America.

Andrew VellenderManaging Director, Piller Power India Pvt. Ltd. & Head of Global Service

Andrew is responsible for business development and operations for Piller Power India and for the aftermarket operations of the Piller international subsidiaries with over 20 years of experience within the UPS industry, seventeen of those with Piller. He has gained extensive experience managing all aspects of the aftermarket operations across the whole product range and customised applications. Business Unit Director for Piller Power India Pvt Ltd since 2016.

Shailendra BaisDirector, Piller India Pvt Ltd.

Shailendra has 22 years’ experience in the field of power supply solutions with extensive experience providing solutions to clients’ requirements for varied applications in the high power range. He was instrumental in securing turnkey Piller installations in India, including the first Hybrid IP Bus & the first Medium Voltage IP Bus (Isolated Parallel systems) for Datacentre applications. Shailendra has been the local Director of Piller Power India since 2015

Palaniappan MuthuramanManaging Director, Piller Power Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Palaniappan is responsible for business development and operations for Piller in South East Asia, China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. He has always been involved in Electrical products specialising in UPS, Industrial Automation, Drive products and switchgear. He joined Piller in 2014 and has been key in building the team in this region. He has successfully led the team to introduce the world’s first Electrically Coupled Diesel UPS with Lithium Ion Battery and also the most reliable IP Bus (Isolated Parallel system) to Malaysia, Korea and Vietnam.

Jonathan DavisManaging Director, Piller Australia Pty Ltd

Jonathan is responsible for business development and operations for Piller in Australia, NZ and & South Pac Isl. He has been involved in Power Quality and Sustainable Energy for most of his career with more than 30 years with Piller. Jonathan is a co-founder of Piller Australia and having worked through all facets of the business, he has gained a wealth of product, business and market application experience in power protection systems.