Maurice Mortell
Archives: Speakers
Michelle Wallace
Michelle Wallace is Head of Operations and Community at Host in Ireland. Michelle has been in the data centre industry for 10 years, having joined Digital Realty in 2008 as they expanded their US operations into Europe. After seeing phenomenal growth in the company and industry, Michelle joined Colt Data Centre Services and moved the… Read more »
Una Fitzpatrick
Una Fitzpatrick is a Dublin City University STEM graduate with a master’s in management from Smurfit Business School. She has spent the last 15 years working in the knowledge economy, specifically the last six years being spent with Technology Ireland. Una was appointed Director of Technology Ireland in June 2018. Technology Ireland is an association… Read more »
Peter Connolly
Eddie Kilbane
Joe McCaffrey
Joe is a Chartered M&E Quantity Surveyor with specific experience in data centre design and construction. Co-founder of Duke McCaffrey, Joe has led on some of Ireland’s largest data centre projects for large funds, data centre developers and owner operators including Keppel, Digital Realty and Serverfarm Reality. As specialist M&E cost consultants, over the past… Read more »
Brian Doherty
Experienced Technology Professional and Managing Director with over 30 years experience of working in the ICT and Data Centre Infrastructure & Services sector.. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, and large scale Program Management. Highly skilled business & technology professional with a Postgraduate Diploma Marketing, MSc Computer Science, University of Ulster. Brian continues to blaze… Read more »
Dr Jon Summers
Dr Jon Summers is the scientific lead in data centres at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Adjunct Professor in Fluid Mechanics at Lulea Technical University in Sweden, and a Visiting Professor to the Institute of Thermofluids at the University of Leeds in the UK. He has worked on government and industry funded projects using high… Read more »
Garry Connolly
Garry Connolly is the Founder of Host in Ireland, a strategic global initiative created to increase awareness of the benefits of hosting digital assets in Ireland and Irish companies delivering international data centre projects. A self-proclaimed “stubborn digital optimist,” Garry is a much sought-after keynote speaker, panellist and moderator at global industry events.
Frank Grundholm
Frank Taaning Grundholm is Vice President of Global HVACR sales in ABB Motion. Throughout his 25 years in the HVAC, water and refrigeration industries, he has been contributing to securing that buildings and infrastructures are both operationally effective and sustainable. He was part of the development of the Europump extended product approach, which today forms… Read more »
