Alex has worked in the data centre industry for over 30 years. During this time he has designed and built data centres ranging from very small to very large complex environments in locations across Europe and beyond. Alex has operated data centres both commercially and as enterprise facilities and has a wealth of knowledge about these environments and the equipment that they are designed to support. Alex was a contributor to the EU Code of Conduct for data centres and is both a Vice President and Managing Director of the European Data Centre Association. He is a regular contributor to both press and other media as a subject matter expert on data centre environments and operation and a regular speaker at data centre related conferences.