Chairman Zahl LimbuwalaBEng(Hons), FBCS, MIET, CEng, CITP | | | Zahl has been in the information technology and telecoms sectors for over 15 years. Holding senior operational management posts in both FTSE100 and pre-IPO startups. Having a strong academic engineering background, Zahl has worked in real-time systems, process control engineering, software development, managed IT services, system integration in both public and private sector. Zahl also has strong international experience having worked in central Europe, North America and Asia. Zahl now provides strategic planning advise within the data centre/managed services/service provider world. Zahl has been involved with the evolution of the data centre over the last 10 years and founded the DCSG after realising the industry needed an independent body through which it could develop and share best practice. Zahl speaks regularly on behalf of the BCS and DCSG at public events and conferences in the information technology sector. More recently Zahl was elected onto the BCS-SGEC (Specialist Groups Executive Committee) as well as the BCS advisory council. Read his blog here |
Vice Chairman Paul LathamMBA MBCS | | | Paul has been working in IT for over 10 years, starting at the sharp end on a call desk for a City firm. Working his way up, he eventually ran a managed hosting datacentre and 24/7 team for over 6 years.
He is now a consultant for Spicer Latham Ltd, working on data centre energy initiatives. |
Treasurer
Ian Hammond
MBCS | | | | | Ian is an ITIL certified, process driven IT professional with over 15 years experience delivering and operating solutions and services in the media, finance, telecoms and most recently the dotcom/ISP sectors. At Cable & Wireless Ian was Head of Engineering and Operational support for web hosting and was responsible for the day to day running of in excess of 2000 devices across 3 data centres. Ian is currently the Director of Business Operations and Finance for the Global Developement and Engineering team at RealNetworks Inc. |
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External Relations
Kate Craig-Wood
MBCS | | | Kate has always had a deep interest in science, technology and business. She taught herself a smattering of programming languages and Web technologies, and after completing her MSc is in Biomedical science joined Arthur Andersen business consulting as IT consultant. She went on to head business development for Easyspace Ltd., one of the UK's largest Web hosting companies, and subsequently formed Memset with her brother, Nick, in late 2002.
Memset has grown steadily since inception, and Kate's foci on technology, innovation and corporate social responsibility have helped to secure Memset's position as a leading dedicated hosting provider. Memset is Britain's first Carbon Neutral ISP, has been voted best UK Web host two years running (2006 & 2007) and has recently won a number of other awards for innovation and IT strategy.
Kate also takes an active interest in local & national business affairs. Her other positions include being a director of the Surrey Chambers of Commerce, a committee member of the Institute of Directors West Surrey branch, and most significantly is a director of Intellect UK, the UK's high-tech trade association. She is also part of Intellect's directorial leadership group on energy & efficiency.
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Secretary Liam NewcombeFBCS CITP
| | | Liam Newcombe, with over 14 years experience in IT infrastructure, software development and solution design Liam has delivered services and products used by many of the UK’s biggest businesses. Liam has held a wide variety of roles ranging from operational management to product engineering. Liam is also an advocate of driving up the level of professionalism in the IT industry through the use of sound engineering practices. He has brought to market a number of data centre based product offerings for businesses such as Digital Island and Cable & Wireless. Today Liam consults on solution architecture and enables businesses to truly understand the relationship between their requirements and the way technology can best fulfil those requirements. Read his blog here |
Membership Secretary
David BruceMBCS | | | David Bruce is an independent consultant with over 11 years of industry experience. David has experience working within the Defence and Telecommunications sector. He has specified, built and operated datacentres within the US, mainland Europe and Britain. Dave has also spent time within the product engineering group of a major telco and was responsible for a number of product launches within their managed IT services portfolio. |
Webmaster 
Dwayne Browne
MBCS | | | Dwayne is a young professional with a wealth of experience under his belt. He has taken on various roles throughout his career. Starting off as a UNIX, data centre engineer at Fujitsu where he specialized in High availability systems, business continuity and Database administration before moving on to do his masters in Information Systems and Knowledge management. He currently works as a web analytics consultant and has been active in Digital marketing for a number of years. He is the cofounder of a digital marketing consultancy helping other start-up companies in the US, Barbados, Sudan and Kenya to establish their market presence, digital and online strategies. Dwayne has also spent a small time teaching Information Technology at GCSE level.
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Committee Member
Joe Baguley
MBCS
| | | With over 16 years of experience in IT, Joe Baguley has extensive field experience in deploying and managing large-scale infrastructures. He regularly writes and presents on the key challenges facing companies globally in an increasingly complex and integrating world. As CTO Europe, Joe is responsible for driving product strategy for Quest Software’s global accounts and territories outside of North America with Quest’s product teams and sales management. |
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Data Centre Specialist Group
