Archives: Speakers

Stephen Bowes-Phipps

Steve Bowes-Phipps has over 25 years of operational systems management experience. From managing Financial Services Data Centres and IT operations in the UK and Ireland, he joined ambitious web hosting company GlobalCenter who were expanding from the US into Europe. Sitting on the senior management team, he oversaw the building of five Internet Data Centres… Read more »

Simon McCormick

Simon is the Chief Technical Officer at Echelon Data Centres, an international infrastructure developer with a focus on providing large-scale sustainable assets, supporting the growing demand for data & compute capacity in the global economy, while being responsible to the environment and the communities in which it operates. Prior to joining Echelon, Simon was part… Read more »

Mark Acton

With over 25 years of experience in the Data Centre sector industry Mark has been a specialist in the field of Data Centre Operations for over 20 years, concentrating on the delivery of business critical services from highly reliable, world class Data Centres having 24×365 availability expectations. A Technical Operations Manager with extensive international experience… Read more »

Maurice Mortell

Maurice Mortell is a seasoned business leader with extensive experience in the technology and data center sectors. With over 30 years of experience, he has played a pivotal role in driving the growth of global tech companies across Europe and beyond. Maurice has held leadership positions in various high-profile organizations, including as Vice President for… Read more »

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 »

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 »