Speaker Group: Speakers 2022

Nigel Bayliff

Nigel Bayliff, CEO of Aqua Comms, is a global telecom industry veteran with more than 30 years experience as both operator & purchaser, developer & constructor of significant submarine cable systems. His unique global experience from both sides of the industry has led him to be an advisor and consultant to cable development, private equity… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Professor Rabih Bashroush

Professor Bashroush provided strategic advisory to public and private sector IT Infrastructure transformation projects covering: consolidation, cloud adoption, resiliency and sustainability. He was named in the UK Universities top 100 Best Breakthrough list for his work on energy conservation in ICT and was the recipient of the Industry Initiative of the Year DCD Global Awards 2018. He led… Read more »

Jerry Sweeney

Jerry Sweeney is Managing Director of CloudCIX. Jerry’s career spans forty years in the IT sector ranging from Semiconductor Manufacturing,  Software Development and Data Centre Design and operation. CloudCIX is a multi-region cloud computing platform available as a Public Cloud, Private Cloud and as a White Label Cloud for Managed Service Providers.