Founder & Chairman of the Board - Dean Nelson
Founder & President - Mark Thiele
Vice President - Richard Donaldson
Treasurer - Phil Reese
Infrastructure Director - Jeffrey Tepfer
Technical Advisory Board Director(TAB)/Chair - Graeme Hay
Industry Alignment Board Director(IAB)/Chair - Tim Crawford
International Director: Europe, Middle East, Africa - Jan Wiersma
International Director: Asia, Pacific Rim - TBD
Director at Large - Jeff Routledge
Director of Legal Affairs - TBD
Marketing & Business Development Director - TBD
DEAN NELSON - CHAIRMAN & FOUNDER
DAY JOB: Sr Director, Global Datacenter Services
eBay
Northern California, USA
dean.nelson@datacenterpulse.org
Dean is the Sr. Director Global Datacenter Services for eBay Inc. This role includes the Strategy, Architecture and Operations functions of eBay’s mission critical infrastructure supporting the activities of ebay.com, paypal.com, shopping.com, IT and other eBay Inc Adjacencies. Dean is also a core member of the eBay Green Team. He described the move to eBay in his blog.
Previously, Dean was the Sr. Director of Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services (GDS) in the Work Environments (WE) business unit of Sun Microsystems. GDS bridged the gap between Facilities & IT/Engineering and is responsible for managing Sun’s multi-billion dollar global technical infrastructure portfolio including datacenter design, standards and strategy. The GDS work resides in the Act portion of Sun’s Eco strategy, and was showcased at Sun’s Eco Launch in August, 2007 and the Colorado Data Center grand opening in January, 2009. Because of overwhelming customer interest, the GDS processes and design became a Sun service offering through the Data Center Efficiency practice (DCE) in December, 2007.
Dean has been in the technology industry for 20 years, of which 17 have been with Sun. He spent four years in Sun manufacturing in roles ranging from component level debug to managing quality. 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 global R&D lab environments and fully integrated automation system.
In 2003, Dean returned 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. In two years, Dean delivered the GDS strategy, including the two largest technical infrastructure consolidations in Sun’s history, a $250M dollar investment.
Dean is a member of The Green Grid End User Advisory Council, Technical Advisory Board for Mission Critical Magazine, Founder of Data Center Pulse - an exclusive datacenter owner community, author of the Sun Blueprint series, Energy Efficient Datacenters: The Role of Modularity in Datacenter Design & Electrical Design and was featured in Contrarian Minds, a focus on the engineers, scientists and dreamers of Sun Microsystems. Dean is also the recipient of Sun’s 2008 Innovation Award presented by Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and CTO, Greg Papadopoulos.
MARK THIELE - PRESIDENT & FOUNDER
DAY JOB: VP Data Center Strategy
ServiceMesh
Northern California
mark.thiele@datacenterpulse.org
Mark Thiele is VP of Data Center Strategy at ServiceMesh a leading provider of Cloud Management and Orchestration software. ServiceMesh solutions help enterprises deliver full governance, security, policy enforcement, lifecycle management, and automation capabilities. He is a strategic advisor at CSRware of San Francisco CA. CSRware is leading provider of resource management software. Mark is also active on the Green Industry Advisory Board of CSU Fullerton. During his off hours Mark acts as President and Founder of Data Center Pulse.
Previously Mark was Director of Business Operations for R&D at VMware where he had global responsibility for Data Center Strategy & Efficiency. At VMware he lead the design & build effort of their state of the art green (LEED Platinum) data center in Wenatchee Washington. He has also held senior IT infrastructure leadership positions at Brocade, Gilead, & HP. He is an active member of Infrastructure 2.0, has represented several companies at The Green Grid and is a regular speaker at industry events on topics such as the future of data centers, cloud computing and carbon reporting.
RICHARD DONALDSON - VICE PRESIDENT
Richard joined UnitedLayer in January 2006 through the merger of ASPextra into UnitedLayer. Richard was co-founder and managing partner of ASPextra, a leading managed services provider headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and servicing clients around the globe. As COO of UnitedLayer, he manages all operational functions at UnitedLayer - from Technical Operations and Product Development, to global sales and services.
Prior to co-founding ASPextra, Richard was a strategic, marketing, & business development consultant for three years. His clients ranged from startups to enterprises all of which had technologies that they were bringing to market. Before building his own successful consulting practice, Richard was a business development executive for two leading venture backed IT services startups, SeniorSurfers, bringing the Internet and its services to Older Adults through a peer tutoring model, and TechPlanet, bringing IT services to the small and mid-sized business market much like Best Buy’s Geek Squad.
Richard started his year Silicon Valley career with Montgomery Securities (acquired by Bank of America) as a corporate finance analyst in their private equity and media/communications groups and then moved into economic consulting for a boutique consulting firm, Peterson Consulting (acquired by Navigant Consulting).
Richard received his Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Colgate University with a minor in Economics and has completed graduate level work in finance at University of California, Berkeley. Richard is a frequent speaker on technology, marketing and strategy
PHILIP REESE, Ph.D. - TREASURER
DAY JOB: Faculty & Research Computing Strategy
Stanford University
Northern California, USA
philip.reese@datacenterpulse.org
Phil Reese has been involved in technology for >25 years. He worked 10 years at USC, as Executive Director, Infrastructure Core. Then at the obligatory start up company, The .tv Corporation. He has been at Stanford University for the last six and a half years. Starting as Director of Networking and moved to his current role of Faculty and Research Computing Strategist. While he talks with many faculty members, his main role is to facilitate the development of a new joint campus/SLAC HPC facility to be sited at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
JEFFREY TEPFER - INFRASTRUCTURE DIRECTOR
Jeff is a IT Architect for Qualcomm where he has global responsibilities for design and operations of mission critical spaces. He has been working within Qualcomm’s data centers since 1997 and is currently acting as lead architect and liaison. In 2005, Jeff joined in the creation of a larger Mission Critical Facilities Team comprised of both Facilities and IT members dedicated to managing the full life-cycle of all critical spaces. This team works as a technology innovator for optimization, striving to provide customers with the highest quality of service, economy, and flexibility.
GRAEME HAY - TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD (TAB) DIRECTOR / CHAIR
DAY JOB: Vice President
Major Financial Institution
East Coast, USA
graeme.hay@datacenterpulse.org
Graeme Hay holds responsibility for the company’s global data center architecture within the broader global data center strategy group. As a member of the Financial Institutions Solutions Engineering Group, he aids in technology and solution planning, architecture, and standards. Mr. Hay rejoined the Financial Institution in 2005 as a Principal Architect and Vice President in Global Technology Infrastructure.
Mr. Hay has more than 16 years of IT management experience in a variety of industries. Before rejoining this Financial Institution, he was CTO for the Motorola account for Computer Sciences Corporation. Prior to Motorola, Mr Hay held in Investment Banking technology project and operations positions at JPMorgan Chase in New York and London.
Mr. Hay holds a Bachelor and Master of Software Engineering from Imperial College of the University of London and is a member of the City & Guilds Institute of engineering. Mr. Hay also speaks on IT topics at industry conferences.
TIM CRAWFORD - INDUSTRY ALIGNMENT BOARD (IAB) DIRECTOR / CHAIR
DAY JOB: Thought-Leader in Cloud Computing and IT Optimization Strategies
Vivo Inc, USA
tim.crawford@datacenterpulse.org
Tim Crawford is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing and IT Optimization Strategies. Tim has over 20-years of Information Technology experience in Operations, Infrastructure, Information Security and Core Applications. Areas of focus include Cloud Computing, Infrastructure Optimization and key game-changing strategies for IT organizations. Tim has held senior IT leadership roles with global organizations such as Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics, and National Semiconductor.
Tim speaks at industry conferences and has written for leading publications including InfoWorld, PC Magazine and VAR Business. Tim also serves on a number of boards including the Society for Information Management (SIM) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, the Golden Gate University Alumni Association and Data Center Pulse.
Tim received an MBA in International Business with Honors and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems both from Golden Gate University.
JAN WIERSMA - INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR:
Europe, Middle East, Africa
DAY JOB: Manager of Infrastructure R&D Datacenters
Data Center Evangelist - Dutch Police Force
The Netherlands
jan.wiersma@datacenterpulse.org
Jan is a ICT infrastructure and datacenter ‘evangelist’ at Dutch Police Force, division IV&T. He started his ICT career 10+ years ago with an chemical technology background.
His career went from (jr) support engineer, to system administrator, to senior Windows specialist and ICT specialist at several (international) commercial and government organizations. His chemical engineering degree and his work experience really came together when datacenters started to look like (chemical) factories; the industrialization of the datacenter.
He represents his current employer in several national and international standards committees such as ASHRAE (TC9.9) and NEN (NC 381888).
JEFF ROUTLEDGE - DIRECTOR AT LARGE
DAY JOB: Director of System Infrastructure
Fox Audience Network - Fox Interactive
Southern California, USA
jeff.routledge@datacenterpulse.org
With more than 25 years in information technology, Jeff’s experience in social networking goes back to 1981 when he began one of the largest ANSI art BBS communities on the East Coast. He was using acoustic couplers and punch cards back then, and after spending a large part of his career in the videogame industry for such companies as Sierra, Valve and Vivendi, he has since built the infrastructure for the largest social network in the history, MySpace.com. When he started as employee number 57, Jeff took MySpace from 12 racks and 250 servers to designing and overseeing the build out of over 10 data centers nationwide with over 8000 servers. Jeff’s leadership, expertise and experience in scaling high traffic web properties contributed heavily to the success of the phenomenal growth of MySpace. The resources he brought to the table continued to bear fruit as Jeff recently completed the infrastructure and data center build for the joint venture between FOX and NBC Universal to launch the first major studio On-Demand IpTV network Hulu.com. Jeff is also involved in some cutting edge extra-curricular projects such as NewCorp’s Green Initiative project and other social networking and virtual-economy research groups. He hails from Canada, and spent his youth sailing the Great Lakes with his father on their 48’ yawl “Gabe’s Ghost”. He has two wonderful teenage children and currently lives in Malibu California with his wife and his Connemara pony Honeymoon.
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