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techUK Data Centres Council Members
Introduction techUK’s Data Centre Council comprises twenty individual members who represent the full spectrum of business
interests and business models across the data centre sector. Members include wholesale and retail colocation
providers, cloud and hosting operators and enterprise providers and range from multinationals to SMEs. Some
members specialise in the provision of professional services to data centres such as lawyers, surveyors, investors and
advisors, some manufacture the IT and communications hardware that occupy these facilities and others represent
the data centre supply chain. The Council is a decision-making body providing strategic direction for all techUK’s
activity relating to data centres. Formal Terms of Reference provide governance for the group.
The Council was established in 2009 in conjunction with the British Computer Society (BCS). Its primary objective
was to provide a representative voice for the sector in policy matters, particularly those relating to energy and
carbon taxation. Over the last five years the Council has been responsible for delivering a number of significant
outcomes for the UK data centre sector. These include negotiating a Climate Change Agreement for Data Centres,
limiting the impact of the Carbon Reduction Commitment, building a qualification framework to recognise
professionalism in the sector, demonstrating the economic value of the sector to Treasury and BIS and demystifying
data centres to policy makers across government. The UK has the largest data centre market in Europe by a
significant margin and as a result the Council also takes a close interest in EU policy developments impacting the
sector.
Comprising senior decision makers, the Council is the single most influential body representing data centres in the
UK.
Current members are: Andrew Jay (Chairman) CBRE Rob Coupland (Vice Chairman) TelecityGroup Ian Bitterlin (Chair of Technical Committee) Critical Facilities Derek Allen Global Switch Tony Allen (alternate: Billy McHallum) Equinix Mark Bailey Charles Russell Speechlys Jack Bedell-Pearce Allan Bosley (alternate: Pip Squire) Robin Brown
4D-DC Ark Colt
Paul Cranfield (alternate: Patrick Coogan) Digital Realty Peter Gibson Intel Nicola Hayes Andrasta Matt Lovell Pulsant Gavin Murray Rackspace John Oliver Barclays Dave Smith DataCentred Steve Strutt IBM Mark Trevor Deloitte Chris Williams NGD
Mark Yearwood CenturyLink
Member Biographies
Andrew Jay (Chairman), Executive Director EMEA Data Centres, CBRE
Andrew is an Executive Director within the Global Corporate Services division based in London. He is head of the EMEA Data Centres team which is the World’s largest data centre real estate advisory group.
He is recognised as one of Europe’s leading advisors to the data centre industry and benefits from in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the technical real estate market including development, leasing and corporate data centre dynamics.
Andrew is responsible for the unique research provided by CBRE into the Global Colocation market and is a regular speaker at the main conferences including Data Centre Dynamics and Data Centres Europe.
Andrew is a founder member of techUK’s Data Centre Council and was a driving force in negotiating the climate change agreement (CCA) for data centres.
Rob Coupland (Vice Chairman), Managing Director UK, TelecityGroup
Rob Coupland is responsible for developing the company reputation and presence in the UK market. He has over fifteen years' experience in the telecommunications and technology sector.
Prior to joining TelecityGroup in early 2007, Rob was Head of Product Marketing at NTL Business where he was responsible for the entire business services portfolio.
Before joining NTL Rob spent 12 years at Cable & Wireless in senior product management roles with a particular focus on business networks, hosting and convergence markets.
Rob is a founder member of techUK’s Data Centre Council and his contribution to the successful negotiation of a climate change agreement for data centres was critical.
Professor Ian Bitterlin, Critical Facilities (Chairman, Technical Committee)
Ian is a UK Chartered Engineer with 25 years’ experience in data centre power and cooling, and a Visiting Professor at University of Leeds.
An active blogger, author of technical papers on critical power and cooling with presentations and keynote speeches made around the world, Ian is a Member of various Engineering Institutions, sits on data centre committees and international standards bodies. As well as Chairing the technical committee of techUK’s Data Centre Council, he is Chair of the DCSG of the BCS and Chair of the TWG in EMEA for The Green Grid.
Ian was awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry’ at Data Centres Europe 2009 by Broadgroup.
Ian’s invaluable technical expertise was instrumental in delivering the CCA for data centres.
Derek Allen, Group Director Operations, Global Switch
Derek joined Global Switch as Group Director Operations in 2012. He holds a Bachelor in Engineering degree and a post graduate Diploma in Management Studies. Derek has extensive knowledge of operating large scale data centres, having over 30 years’ industry experience, the last 12 of which have been working directly in the data centre industry for companies such as Cable & Wireless Worldwide and UBS, where inter alia he led the standardisation and introduction of best practice operating processes and was responsible for a number of significant data centre build projects. Prior to these roles Derek worked for BT where he built up comprehensive engineering and facilities expertise. At Global Switch, Derek is responsible for the management of the Operations team and ensuring that the company maintains its best in class operating procedures across its global footprint.
Tony Allen, Director Customer Operations, Equinix UK Ltd
Tony has worked for Equinix since the year 2000 and is accountable for Customer operations at 5 UK data centres.
Tony has significant knowledge and experience of data centre management spanning 30 years and has been instrumental in growing Equinix’ UK footprint to 5 data centres with the 6th on target for 2015. Tony has also actively participated in new business growth across EMEA.
Equinix are the world’s largest IBX data centre and colocation provider across 32 strategic markets including the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific; connecting
more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centres. Equinix support the council in its mission to foster growth in this sector. Equinix actively participate in the development of industry standards and related issues, including best practice data centre design operation and management and driving innovation.
Billy McHallum (Alternate)
Mark Bailey, Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys
Mark is a highly experienced commercial, IP and technology lawyer, who provides advice on a variety of technology, infrastructure and commercial contract matters for clients ranging from growing businesses to public authorities, consultants and major suppliers and buyers of IT services.
Mark combines in-depth commercial expertise, specialist technology know-how and a highly practical approach to advising clients on a range of matters including software licensing, internet and e-commerce issues, terms and conditions of business, IP protection, research and development and collaboration agreements, software developments and licensing. He also advises on supply chain contracting, agency distribution and supply agreements, data centre operation, outsourcing and facilities management and green IT and low carbon issues.
Mark works across a number of sectors but has particular expertise in advising within the financial services arena. Mark has been a key contributor to the successful negotiation of a CCA for data centres.
Jack Bedell-Pearce, 4D-DC
Jack started his career with management consultancy firm Accenture where he worked on technical projects, then spent a couple of years at a London-based design agency as their Head of Digital before establishing his own small consultancy company. He joined 4D, one of a handful of small to medium sized privately owned UK data centres, in 2007. Since then, Jack has overseen the rapid growth of 4D, winning, along the way, multiple green awards for retrofitting their data centre with cutting edge cooling technology and winning a Deloitte Fast 500 award 4 years in a row. Taking on a legacy data centre and growing it organically from an almost zero customer base to a nearly full data centre has provided Jack with some unique insights, including: commercial experience in running and managing a Tier 3 data centre, hands on experience in retro-fitting / upgrading a legacy colocation data centre (in a live environment), with the latest UPS and cooling technologies including successful retrofit of adiabatic cooling, a strong understanding of the issues that smaller retails colocation providers face and a commitment to providing a voice for this cohort of operators.
Allan Bosley, Ark Continuity
Allan manages the bid process that supports Ark’s growth plans. He brings to the job wide–ranging experience drawn from a career in the marketing and communications industries, and communications management roles on major IT change and transformation programmes at the MoD and the BBC. Ark design, construct and operate highly efficient modular data centre systems, providing a scalable method of rapidly deploying data centres with an extremely low, proven Power Usage Effectiveness. Ark’s low PUE results in the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for its customers across the Private and Public Sectors. The company currently has two data centre campuses, one just outside the M25 at Farnborough, the other in Corsham, Wiltshire. Ark has demonstrated a consistent approach to innovation in the development of its data centres. This extends well beyond the technology innovation required to stay at the forefront of data centre deployment and delivery into the operational and management philosophy of the Company.
Ark recognises the value of techUK in providing an articulate, well-informed and effective collective voice for the data centre industry. The Company has supported techUK’s successful campaign for a Climate Change Agreement for the industry with data, information and feedback. Ark also contributes to a range of the working groups across techUK where the management of highly secure, accessible and energy efficient data centre provision is a pre-requisite.
Robin Brown, Vice President, DCS Portfolio
Robin is currently Vice President DCS Portfolio at Colt Technology Services and is responsible for strategy, portfolio management and P&L across all 27 data centres in the EU and Asia. Robin has over 17 years direct experience in the TMT sector having started his career in South East Asia working as a TMT stock analyst at Credit Lyonnais then with PWC management consulting in Hong Kong before moving to the UK and working in industry for global network operators. Robin has successfully fulfilled a number of Director level roles responsible for driving sales growth, product strategy and asset integration for Data Centre Operators, MNOs, Carriers and Enterprise organisations. Additionally Robin has represented a US West coast M&A advisory firm in a number of executive positions including business restructuring, audit and due diligence, SaaS platform development & deployment.
Paul Cranfield, Director of Power, Digital Realty
Paul is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ experience of critical environments having worked in the transport, telecommunications, finance and technology sectors. With a specialism in energy and environmental management Paul is now the Director of Power for the Global Data Centre Operator, Digital Realty across the EMEA region. Responsible for power procurement, energy demand management, customer cost recovery, carbon reporting and innovation in power generation and utilization. Working with design teams to develop new data centre facilities with market leading efficiencies whilst ensuring competitive energy rates for the end user, incorporating an ever increasing demand for sustainable, renewable power. Managing the firm’s exposure to regulation and mandatory reporting of carbon
emissions and environmental impact, including EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), Climate Change Agreement (CCA), Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) and ISO50001. Working as part of the Innovations function, Paul is also responsible for the application of new technologies relating to power generation, transmission, distribution and storage. Paul joined Digital Realty in October 2014 having previously worked for UBS, Vodafone, PB Power and BAA. Alternate: Patrick Coogan
Peter Gibson, Regulatory Manager, Intel Corporation
Peter has worked at Intel Corporation for 9 years as part of their Global Public Policy team. Peter has specialist advocacy responsibilities for energy efficiency and spectrum policy in his time with Intel. Peter was responsible for driving the development and subsequent publication of the IEC 62623 test Standard for PC energy consumption. He’s an active member of the Digital Europe eco-design cluster, IEC TC 100, CENELEC TC100X and ITU-T SG5. He continues to drive Intel’s ICT enabling policy in supporting the global reduction of GHG emissions.
Prior to working with Intel he worked with an American manufacturer who designed and developed fixed microwave radio systems in the 1.4 -38 GHz range. He was responsible for developing ETSI Harmonised Standards to support their industry leading innovative solutions. Peter previously worked for 6 years at the UK spectrum regulator, the Radiocommunications Agency (known now as OFCOM) as manager of the fixed services frequency assignment operations.
Nicola Hayes, Managing Director, Andrasta Consulting
Nicola has been involved in the data centre market since 1998, prior to which she
was involved in telecoms network rollout following European de-regulation. As
Managing Partner of the London based Philips Group, Nicola was responsible for the
formation of the company’s Data Centre Consultancy Practice and was the author
of the first ever industry report into the fledgling colocation market as well as
speaking at the first conferences in both Europe and the US on the subject. With
experience advising colocation providers, government agencies, financial
institutions and vendors on data centre strategy, rollout and investment, Nicola has
an unrivalled knowledge on the sector. Following a role as Vice President of
BroadGroup, a UK based company specialising in data centre conferences and
consultancy, Nicola then joined DatacenterDynamics where she was responsible for
establishing a data centre research practice, DCD Intelligence, which is now one of
the leading sources of global data, research and consultancy on data centre trends. She has recently established her
own consultancy, Andrasta Consulting, providing strategic business advice to companies involved in the sector.
Matt Lovell, Pulsant
Matt graduated with an honours degree in Industrial Management and holds a number of other post graduate qualifications.
He joined Astra Zeneca in 1994 and chose to develop his career in IT, working in several global consultancy roles within Microsoft and Perot Systems before joining Severn Trent Plc as CTO in 2000.
Matt joined Digica in 2003 as CTO to accelerate the development of Mid-Market Managed Services; following the Computacenter acquisition in 2007, he became CTO.
In 2011, he joined the Board at Pulsant as CTO.
John Oliver, Relationship Director, Barclays
John is a long term Barclays employee who has more than 20 years Corporate Banking experience.
He has spent a considerable amount of time working with clients within the TMT industry both domestically and internationally.
He has a specific interest in the DC Sector having been directly involved in numerous DC financing transactions
Steve Strutt, CTO Cloud Computing, UK and Ireland, IBM
As Cloud CTO Steve advises clients of all sizes and industries in UK & Ireland on the adoption of cloud computing technologies and business models.
Focusing on the transformation of enterprise IT, he has a broad IT background in consulting, systems architecture and technical sales.
With over 27 years in IBM, Steve looks at how new developments can solve business challenges, engaging the breadth of IBM skills and technology to enable business growth.
As a technical leader he maintains a broad interest in technology, engineering and sustainability both at work and beyond.
Mark Trevor, Director, Deloitte LLP
Mark has specialised exclusively on data centre real estate for nearly 14 years. He leads the data centre transactions and advisory team within Deloitte’s broader data centre services group. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Deloitte LLP offers professional services to the UK and European market. With over 14,400 people in 28 offices in the UK and Switzerland, Deloitte has the broadest and deepest range of skills of any business advisory organisation. Deloitte provides professional services and advice to many leading businesses, government departments and public sector bodies, and publishes many influential studies and thought leadership pieces.
As Deloitte provides a holistic 360º integrated data centre advisory service covering such aspects as current state reviews of facilities, technology and contractual arrangements; data centre strategy development; application and system migration; security and resilience; real estate as well as taxation and finance advisory, Mark is able to draw on a huge resource to support techUK’s activities in the data centre sector.
Mark was a key contributor to the negotiation of the Climate Change Agreement for data centres.
Chris Williams, Next Generation Data
With a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s in European politics and economics, Chris was well placed to embark on an international career and he has since enjoyed many opportunities working across the world. His first job was in the UK with the Abbey National, managing his own business unit, before an exciting opportunity to work in business development for the government in Brussels arose. After a five year spell overseas during which he worked at the European Parliament and Commission Chris returned to work for the UK civil service, however, his international experience was soon in demand and he was quickly posted to New York where he took up a role within the British Consulate – the headquarters of the trade and investment service - assisting North American technology companies with their expansion and investment plans, selling the benefits of the UK, particularly Wales.
Chris’ New York role led to a meeting with NGD and an opportunity to return to the private sector – and Britain. Chris, who now lives in London with his Spanish wife Cristina and their two young children, says he didn’t hesitate when he was offered the role as business director of NGD in a “massively booming and exciting industry”.
Mark Yearwood, Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, CenturyLink Technology Solutions
Mark Yearwood is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) with over 15 years qualified experience gained in the IT, Telco and Outsourcing industry sectors, following graduation from the University of Kent in 1998. Mark has held Financial Management roles at GTS and Accenture before joining CenturyLink as Financial Analyst in 2007. CenturyLink Technology Solutions is a subsidiary of CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the United States with a turnover of $18B. Promoted to Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in 2011, Mark provided critical management support as the company grew by 20% CAGR to reach revenue streams of over $200M. Mark is a senior leader, responsible for business strategy and planning, reporting, key decision support as well as being the executive sponsor for a number of major client accounts. He has built and manages a high performance finance team in the UK who were responsible for delivering the business investment case leading to the sale of the legacy SAVVIS hosting business to CenturyLink, and prompting a cash injection of $200M for its UK footprint expansion. Mark also manages power policy for CenturyLink in EMEA and runs both the supply and legislative work alongside TechUK.
Council Secretariat
Emma Fryer, Associate Director, Climate Change Programmes, techUK: E: [email protected]
Emma has worked in and around the technology industry for the last 15 years in a range of non-technical roles that include research and report writing, policy work, from political liaison to detailed negotiations, and project management.
More recently she has focused on data centres. She manages the UK Council of Data Centre Operators and techUK’s Data Centres Technical Committee and, with their support, has achieved some major outcomes for the sector, the most significant of which was negotiating and implementing the Climate Change Agreement for Data Centres. This, after a four-year marathon of evidence gathering and policy dialogue, was confirmed in December 2013 and
came into force on 1st July 2014. It is worth around £200M to the sector. In recognition of her work she won the DataCenterDynamics Award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Industry” in 2013. TechUK also won the “Effective Voice” category of the Association Network Awards in 2014 in recognition of way the CCA campaign had been managed.
She has also produced a significant body of work including formal and informal policy responses, white papers, overviews, briefings, high level thought leadership papers and illustrated infographics explaining complex technologies in laymans' terms - plus everything in between. Publications include “High Tech: Low Carbon”, “Evaluating the Carbon Impact of ICT: the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything”, “Data Centres: Engines of Growth”, “Data Centres: a Day in YOUR Life”, “So What Have Data Centres Ever Done For Us?”, “Data Centre Business Models: The Sherry Trifle” and “Er, what IS a Data Centre?” She is a regular speaker at industry events.
Lucas Banach, Programme Assistant, techUK
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