Conference: Data Center Track

Mr. Parker-Johnson is director of marketing worldwide for data center network solutions at Juniper Networks. He has been instrumental in developing and bringing to market Juniper's data center solutions over the past three years, enabling delivery of switching, routing, and security solutions for many of the world's most demanding data center operators in enterprise, government and service provider markets. Previously, he was a member of Juniper's service provider market strategy & planning team, focused on new markets analysis and entry. Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Parker-Johnson held product management and marketing positions for Ellacoya Networks, Cisco Systems, and BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman). He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.A. from Columbia University.

Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology for automation, virtualization ,and cloud, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, customer engagement, and partner development. Prior to CA, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Mr. Elliot earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Tate Cantrell's primary responsibilities include product design and development and data center operations. Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell acted as Vice President, Data Center Technologies, at Dupont Fabros Technology. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Center business model, the first of its kind in the industry. Mr Cantrell also provided technical support for marketing and key business strategy expansion opportunities, and directed and managed strategy for all IT systems. Mr. Cantrell has been involved in data centers and other high tech facilities for more than 15 years, starting as a research programmer for computational modeling on biomedical applications.

Frank Piatkowski, principal and co-founder of DockIT is an architect, real estate developer and an expert in design, construction and ownerâ?™s representation. Prior to DockIT, Piatkowski was director of Development for Charles E. Smith Company, Penrose Group, Higgins Development Partners, The Mat West Company and Kramer, Chin and Mayo. While at these firms, he designed, built and managed complex technology-driven real estate projects in 35 states and 17 foreign countries. Piatkowski holds bachelorâ?™s and masterâ?™s degrees in Architecture from the University of Michigan and a masterâ?™s degree of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. He is a licensed architect in three states and a member of Lead Virginia 2008.

Greg Palmer has responsibility for HP's Performance Optimized Data Center (HP POD) business in the Americas. Palmer started his career in Information Technology at DEC, worked in the Enterprise Server Group at Compaq and served as business development manager for HP's Blade Server business. In 2003, Palmer joined APC and while there he owned APC's modular three phase UPS and power distribution product lines. In 2008, Palmer rejoined HP in his current capacity. Palmer earned a bachelor's of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer and a master's in Business Administration from Babson.

Martin Olsen serves as the company's vice president of Business Development. In this role, Olsen leads all global business development activities to help grow Active Power's product and sales distribution channels, bringing more than 11 years of global marketing, product marketing and development to the position. Prior to Active Power, Olsen served as divisional director, Data Center Group, for Wright Line LLC, a Worcester, Mass.-based data center infrastructure firm. From 2004-2007, he managed the firm's global product lines and developed and maintained product roadmaps for Wright, establishing the company's first product life cycle management process. This ?first' put a formal process in place that helped bring products to market in a timely and cost effective manner. Amongst his many successes at Wright, he oversaw the design, production and market launch of several new, innovative data center solutions. From 1998 to 2004, Olsen spent time in the States and several years overseas working in Munich and Singapore, where he led the product marketing and development charter for APC-MGE, a $3 billion global provider of critical power and cooling services. He wore a myriad of hats while at APC from product marketing manager to director of Communications to director of Product Marketing. While in Singapore, Olsen successfully launched APC's Silcon product and other ancillary solutions to the APAC market, working closely with more than 200 sales people in 35 sales offices. In Munich, Olsen managed product roadmaps for APC's InfraStruXure product and four other core product lines. He helped establish relationships with IBM Global Services and EDS to facilitate the introduction of InfraStruXure to market in 15 European states. One of Olsen's key accomplishments at APC included the development of a pre-shipment package program, which resulted in a $2.3 millions savings to the company.

Michael Manos joined Digital Realty Trust as the Senior Vice President of Technical Services in May 2009. In this role he is response for all data center construction and technical operations along with oversight of data center professional services. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust Manos was responsible for the global, design, construction, and operations of all Microsoft data center facilities in support of both online, cloud services, and internal IT growth. Other positions over the last 15 years include global network and data center operations responsibilities for Walt Disney Internet group, being the chief technology officer for Nuclio Corporation (now part of Sun) a managed services provider and executive positions at Rhythms NetConnections (now part of Verizon), and O/E Systems, a regional integration and consulting firm in Chicago specializing in carrier-grade broadband network design. Manos attended the Illinois Institute of Technology, maintains multiple industry technical certifications, and is an active industry blogger.