 - Ken Baker, Senior Consultant, Critical Facilities Services, Hewlett Packard Company
Ken Baker is a recognized industry expert on power, cooling and datacenter infrastructure. He is an evangelist for the latest in energy conservation and efficiency technologies for customers worldwide. He is a frequent keynote speaker at various datacenter engineering events. Baker joined Compaq in 1982 and was responsible for the formation of a number of organizations, and has held numerous other Engineering positions within HP/Compaq, including program and product management for a variety of hardware and software products. Currently, Baker is focused on the development of “green” IT concepts and energy management technologies that drive hyper-efficiency in today’s IT environments.
 - William (Bill) Barney, CEO, Pacnet
Voted 2009 Best Asia Pacific Telecom Executive by readers of CommsDay and named 2008 Telecom CEO of the Year by Telecom Asia, Bill Barney presided over the transformation of one of Asia's first Chapter 11 casualties (Asia Global Crossing), into one of the region's leading providers of IP and WAN services (Asia Netcom). In 2007, Mr. Barney led the company's successful acquisition of regional ISP, Pacific Internet, which operationally merged with Asia Netcom and relaunched as Pacnet in January 2008.
Under Mr. Barney's leadership, the company has achieved industry-leading growth targets and was named “Company of the Year for Excellence in Growth” by Frost & Sullivan in 2009, as well as "Best Wholesale Carrier" in 2007 & 2009 by Telecom Asia. Other accolades include the International Engineering Consortium's prestigious InfoVision Award in 2006 & 2007, as well as “Data Communications Service Provider of the Year” awards by Frost & Sullivan in 2005 & 2006.
Mr. Barney earlier served as President of Asia Pacific at MCI WorldCom where he managed the industry’s fastest growing regional company through an industry leading three-digit growth phase. During Mr. Barney’s tenure at WorldCom and UUNET, the company received numerous awards for its technological leadership in IP services while also being recognized twice as Asia’s Telecom Employer of the Year.
Prior to joining WorldCom, Mr. Barney was Vice President of Global One, where he managed operations in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Barney began his career with AT&T, where he held a number of key sales and management roles in the international division and domestic sales group.
Mr. Barney received his MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University.
 - Christian Belady, General Manager, Datacenter Research Global Foundation Services, Microsoft
Christian Belady is the general manager for Datacenter Research in Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS) where he is responsible for driving research and advanced development of technologies for broad scale adoption in Microsoft’s datacenters. GFS supports over 200 Microsoft online services for consumers and businesses worldwide. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Hardware Architecture in the Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research where he led a team that explored hardware opportunities related to the future of client plus cloud computing. He started his career at Microsoft in 2007 as Microsoft’s Principal Infrastructure Architect for Global Foundation Services to improve both efficiency and cost in their online services infrastructure. His responsibilities have included driving initiatives for sustainability in the datacenter and infrastructure space, and he was one of the key architects for the company’s next generation modular datacenters. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christian was a Distinguished Technologist for HP where his responsibilities included driving the technology direction in HP's server products and their environments, as well as driving industry datacenter initiatives. In addition, his earlier employers include Convex Computers (acquired by HP), TI and IBM. In 2010, SearchDataCenter named Christian as one of “5 People who changed the Datacenter” industry and helped drive innovative thinking and quantitative benchmarking in the field. With over 84 US patents and many international patents, Christian is an ASME and IMAPS Fellow and a founding member of ASHRAE's TC9.9, which is responsible for developing datacenter guidelines. He was one of the early architects of the Green Grid and currently the treasurer for the organization, and is an originator of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a datacenter which is now broadly used by the industry. He also works closely with government agencies globally to define efficiency metrics for datacenters and servers. Christian has published several dozen papers, is frequently quoted in the press, and is a featured speaker on power and cooling trends in the industry. Since the late 1990s, the focus of his publications has been on datacenters and the industry’s need for engineering efficient computing environments. Christian holds engineering degrees from Cornell University (BS) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS) and a business degree from the University of Texas at Dallas (MA) where he was honored with the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award.
 - Aaron Davis, Chief Marketing Officer, Schneider Electric
Aaron Davis holds the position of Chief Marketing Officer at Schneider Electric. He joined APC in 1989 as Director of Marketing Communications, which became part of IT Business of Schneider Electric in 2007.
Aaron has held various senior level marketing and sales roles including Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and President, North America for APC. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and formed the Critical Power & Cooling Services (CPCS) Business Unit, which includes the APC and MGE UPS Systems brands. Until February 2007, Aaron Davis served as Vice President, Communications and Chief Marketing Officer at APC.
Over the years, APC's marketing communication team has been instrumental in developing APC as the premiere brand in the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) industry worldwide. To support this, Aaron built an award-winning advertising program that for over a decade has been recognized for its excellence in a wide array of leading technology publications. In 1996, his accomplishments were recognized by Marketing Computers magazine as Aaron was named one of the top 12 information technology marketers of the year.
Aaron holds a BS from Johns Hopkins University and a MS from Columbia Journalism School.
 - Jack Pouchet, Director Energy Initiatives, Emerson Network Power and Board Director, Green Grid
Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path.
An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646.
Jack serves as Emerson’s representative on the Board of Directors of The Green Grid.
As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets.
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