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Dave Meadows is the Director of Technology at STULZ USA. He has over 20 years of experience in mission critical technologies and participates in numerous committees and panels throughout the year. Dave has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is also a graduate of the United States Navy Nuclear Power School. Dave is a voting member on these ASHRAE committees: 1. ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9: “Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment”. 2. ASHRAE SSPC 90.4: “Energy Standard for Data Centers”. 3. ASHRAE SPC 127: “Method of Testing for Rating Computer and Data Processing Room Unitary Air Conditioners”.

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Andrew Lindsey is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flexnode, a digital infrastructure company delivering the next generation of distributed, high-performance data center solutions for ‘go-anywhere’ capacity. At Flexnode, Andrew is collaborating with industry leading colleagues and best-in-class strategic partners to design and operate modular, liquid-cooled, micro data centers to meet rapidly growing global data demand at the network core and edge.

In addition to his executive role at Flexnode, Andrew also serves as the Director of Applied Research and Development at Alpha Corporation, a multidisciplinary design and construction consulting firm headquartered in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. While working with Alpha, Andrew has supported the development and implementation of innovative solutions to critical building and infrastructure problems in domestic and international markets with an emphasis on sustainability and resilience in the built environment.

Throughout his career, Andrew has collaborated with a broad cross section of industry leaders in an effort to support long-term solutions to a range of challenges in media, healthcare, education and most recently the built environment. To support these efforts, Andrew has emphasized integrating solutions across markets by connecting communities and using technology as a conduit and translator.

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Tarif is a veteran of over two decades in the data center space, with extensive experience in the design, development, construction, commissioning, deployment, maintenance and operation of data centers.

Prior to joining Flexnode, he was VP of Data Center Infrastructure at NTT Ltd. (Americas), where he deployed ground-breaking technologies in data centers to improve efficiencies and reduce carbon footprints, including the first use of solid oxide fuel cells running on biogas from cow manure to produce electricity at a data center, and the implementation of virtualized cooling, a project that won the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT award. Having built a solid core, he now gets his kicks living on the edge.

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