Noah joined Equinix in 2023 with the mission to scale up heat export from their global portfolio of data centres, benefiting local communities in which they operate. He is currently developing a pipeline that includes over 50 data centre sites worldwide, ensuring that Equinix plays a leading role in enabling the energy transition globally while creating local circular economies.

He is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in sustainable energy. He collaborates with individuals and organisations at the forefront of the energy transition, co-creating sustainable solutions that empower communities. Noah's expertise lies in industrial heat recovery and reuse for heat networks, where he has pioneered cross-industry waste heat partnerships in the UK to supply residual industrial heat to heat networks.

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A passionate advocate for large-scale decarbonization in urban environments, Chris’ role focuses on developing Enwave’s heating and cooling networks in Toronto’s downtown core. Beyond this, Chris specializes in expanding Enwave's reach by developing new opportunities in data centers, energy supply and heat recovery. With 4 years at Enwave and a total of 10 years in the building and energy sectors, Chris brings experience from deep energy retrofits at commercial and institutional buildings to the practice of decarbonizing new and existing customer sites.

Gerard is a Principal with Reshape Infrastructure Strategies, an development and advisory firm based in Vancouver, BC that operates across North America. He is a Professional Engineer (non-practising) with a Master’s degree in Clean Energy Engineering. Gerard has twenty years of experience in green buildings and district energy/thermal energy networks. He supports energy utilities, master plan developers, campuses, and municipalities to accelerate the energy transition. 125%

Ahmad Shams is the Director of Business Development at CenTrio, based in Chicago, where he plays a key role in advancing the company’s district energy solutions for the data center market. With a background in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ahmad brings over eight years of experience in technical sales and energy-focused roles across industrial manufacturing sectors. His work has consistently emphasized sustainability and operational efficiency.

Since joining CenTrio, Ahmad has helped shape the company's go-to-market strategy for data centers and is actively engaged in the development of adaptive re-use and greenfield projects across the Chicago region. His insights are grounded in both engineering expertise and a strategic approach to clean energy infrastructure.

As Senior Director of Engineering, Geoff Bares is responsible for the many technical facets of CenTrio’s operations in Chicago: engineering design, construction project management, system performance improvement, and day-to-day technical oversight.  CenTrio provides sustainable district cooling service to nearly 53 million sq ft of building space in downtown.

Geoff’s previous work experiences include the International Space Station program, the liquefied natural gas industry and chilled water thermal storage systems.
Geoff holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

Scott Emery is the Engineering Manager of FVB Energy's Washington DC office. He is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years of engineering and business experience related to geoexchange systems, net-zero energy building consulting, building performance standards, and comprehensive energy auditing. His expertise includes working with complex energy projects across the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast, focusing on guiding clients through technical, regulatory, environmental, and financial considerations. When not in the office, you will likely find him on a hike, exploring Virginia's wineries, or tending to his garden.

Michael Conte is the Engineering Manager of the FVB Energy Inc. Toronto office. He is a senior mechanical engineer with over 16 years of district energy experience related to Low Carbon District Energy planning, thermal energy production, power generation, and distribution piping systems. His experience includes working with a variety of low-carbon energy production technologies such as ORC turbines, sewer/wastewater energy recovery, geo-exchange, biomass, large scale heat pumps, thermal storage, centrifugal and absorption chillers. Michael works with energy utilities, municipalities, Universities, and home developers to help them navigate through their thermal energy needs and to leverage district energy to deliver positive project outcomes. When he’s not at the office, you will find him with his wife and two young children, or at the golf course / curling rink depending on the season.

Petri Tuominen has worked in district energy industry since 2013, specializing in valves and related solutions through his work at Vexve, the leading producer of valves specifically designed for district energy applications. He holds MSc degree in Economics from Lappeenranta University of Technology as well as an MBA from the Turku School of Economics. He is currently working as General Manager for Vexve's North American branch office in Montreal, Canada.

Bart is a Principal and Project Manager as well as a Senior Electrical Engineer. He is the princial in charge of the national data center practice and leads the North Carolina office’s Mission Critical group of engineers and commissioning engineers. Bart has extensive data center and district energy experience for both design and commissioning. His clients cover the financial, healthcare, internet, telecom, colocation, and private enterprise markets totaling over 1000MW+ of critical power. His experience ranges from traditional low-density solutions to cutting edge highly redundant solutions, each tailored specifically to meet the needs and budget of the client. Bart is an Uptime Institute certified Accredited Tier Designer for data center resiliency. His expertise is with the planning, design, and testing of complex electrical and communication systems for large, complex, or power intensive facilities and campuses.

As a Principal and Project Manager with AEI, Matt actively leads and manages teams on a wide range of projects that support the Mission Critical market. Matt brings over a decade of experience providing planning and design leadership for various types of data center facilities including modular, high performance computing with cabinet power densities greater than 500kW, and several hundred thousand square feet of enterprise and colocation facilities. These facilities total over 500 MW of power and several have concurrently maintainable power and cooling infrastructure.

Paul G. Zmick, PE
Director of Energy and Utilities
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Paul Zmick currently leads the 120 FTE Energy and Utilities team for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Virginia. Central utilities are provided for over 19 million square feet of facilities, including the University Medical Center. The Energy and Utilities team is responsible for energy procurement, generation, distribution, and operation, maintenance, and renewal of the utility infrastructure, with a strategic focus on safety, sustainability, and stewardship. Utilities provided include steam, heating water, cooling water, domestic water, sanitary, storm, 13kV power, and on-site renewables. 

Paul currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International District Energy Association and has been an active member in the organization for many years. Prior to UVA, Paul worked for DuPont and Koch Industries for a combined 22-years across five manufacturing sites in various engineering and leadership roles. While at DuPont, Paul was listed as inventor on two US Patents. Paul graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, and the University of Virginia with a Master of Systems Engineering; and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.

Suresh Jambunathan has developed, designed-commissioned and helped finance several Energy-Water and process projects.  His expertise includes process design, project management and project financing across Food, Beverage & Agricultural processing and petrochemical plants.  He is the owner/principal of Energy and Water Development LLC (“EnWaDev”) which offers an A-B-C solution to customers.

A. Consulting: Energy & Water systems plus process design
B. Development (technical, legal/contractual, environmental etc…) including project finance.  
C. Operations & Maintenance of Energy & Water assets
He earned his BE (Petrochemical Engineering) in 1994 from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT-P), India and MS (Food Science) in 1997 from the Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.

Jim is a professor and Interim Department Head of Architectural Engineering at Penn State. Jim is also the director of the DOE's mid-west Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnership. Jim specializes in Combined Heat and Power, District Energy, and Building Mechanical Systems.

Jacob is an architectural engineering PhD recent graduate with a focus in energy dispatch optimization and combined heat power, particularly in controlled environment agriculture applications. He also has considerable experience in campus-wide sustainability initiatives including carbon neutrality and plastic reduction.

Tom is the director of Policy Research at the Pace University Land Use Center for Sustainability. Tom is also a Senior Advisor US DOE’s New York /New Jersey Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnership.

Paul G. Zmick, PE
Director of Energy and Utilities
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Paul Zmick currently leads the 120 FTE Energy and Utilities team for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Virginia. Central utilities are provided for over 19 million square feet of facilities, including the University Medical Center. The Energy and Utilities team is responsible for energy procurement, generation, distribution, and operation, maintenance, and renewal of the utility infrastructure, with a strategic focus on safety, sustainability, and stewardship. Utilities provided include steam, heating water, cooling water, domestic water, sanitary, storm, 13kV power, and on-site renewables. 

Paul currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International District Energy Association and has been an active member in the organization for many years. Prior to UVA, Paul worked for DuPont and Koch Industries for a combined 22-years across five manufacturing sites in various engineering and leadership roles. While at DuPont, Paul was listed as inventor on two US Patents. Paul graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, and the University of Virginia with a Master of Systems Engineering; and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.

As President and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin oversees day-to-day business operations with the leadership team reports of Operations, Sales and Account Management, Marketing and Communications, Human Resources, and Engineering/Information Technology. Kevin will also drive the transition to electrification and the delivery of eSteam™ across our systems and work closely with Vicinity’s Executive Chairman Bill DiCroce to continue elevating Vicinity’s position as the leader for the decarbonization of North American cities lucky enough to hold district energy systems.

In his former role as Technical Officer (CTO), Kevin oversaw the Information Technology (IT), Engineering, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), and Technical teams to drive technical performance and innovation and support operations. Kevin has over 20 years of experience in the power industry and had previously worked for Veolia in senior and leadership positions for nearly 10 years.

Kevin’s most recent role at Veolia was serving as senior vice president of operations for Veolia North America’s (VNA) East business. Appointed in 2018, Kevin was responsible for VNA’s largest region of business, overseeing over 50 facilities, including the company’s largest district energy systems: Boston and Philadelphia.

He graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering. He also achieved an MBA from Boston University.