Company Speakers

CPI is proud of the highly-trained and experienced employees working throughout the company. Many of our employees hold various industry certifications and participate on advisory boards and technical committees.

The below employees are often called upon to speak at various events. If you would like to engage one of our speakers, please contact us. 

Victor Banuelos, Technical Manager

Victor Banuelos has years of experience in the IT community and  facilities maintenance management. He has worked as facilities administrator, software developer,  project manager, ITC consultant and trainer. For seven years he acted as product manager and product developer for two service providers creating a full portfolio of telecommunications and Data Center services. Victor’s responsibilities at CPI are the continuous education on High Performance Data Center Design through seminars and conferences, as well as pre-sales and technical support. Victor has a BS in Electronics and Communications from the ITESM (Tec de Monterrey).

Ted Behrens, Executive Vice President of Global Engineering and Product Management

Ted Behrens is responsible for engineering development of all CPI global product platforms and leading CPI’s overall product development life cycle through close collaboration with Michael Custer, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing and Wesley Gass, Executive Vice President of Global Operations and Supply Chain. Ted is also the lead on Global Product Development, Product Management, Custom Engineering, Sustaining Engineering and the Electronics/Software team. Before joining CPI, Ted was the CEO and a co-founder of Epicenter, Inc., a leading provider of data center infrastructure management tools to the enterprise and managed services market which was acquired by CPI in 2009.

Steve Bornfield, Senior Data Center Consultant

Steve Bornfield worked at Intel Corporation for over 20 years holding various roles in facilities, wafer factory support and then IT with Data Center of the future designs. While employed with Intel, he became an expert in the latest state of the art cleanroom design and construction, which he is now bringing into Data Centers. Mixing this with his more than 25 years of construction experience, Steve is driving many new cutting edge ideas and changes to data centers. Steve’s vast background includes mechanical and electrical construction.

Ian Cathcart, RCDD, Technical Support Manager, EMEA

Ian Cathcart has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in areas ranging from cabling installations, manufacturing, laboratory testing, developing and delivering BICSI certified courses. In his role at CPI, Ian focuses on data center design, product specification and helping customers apply best practices to their data center cooling issues. Ian achieved BICSI RCDD designation in 2007.

Anderson Hungria, Senior Product Manager - Electronics

 Prior to joining Chatsworth Products, Anderson was Product Manager for three phase power products at Eaton Corporation and has also been responsible for custom power distribution products, rack-mounted UPS, energy metering and remote monitoring systems. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University with a concentration in control systems, mechatronics and robotics.
 

Fernando Reyna, RCDD, Field Applications Engineer

Fernando Reyna possesses more than 17 years of technical experience in the telecommunications and data industry. Fernando provides technical advice and service on CPI product applications and acts as technical liaison between key end-users (Fortune 500 companies), company product managers, engineers and new product development teams. In addition, he regularly presents seminars focusing on data center cooling and the economic benefits of using passive cooling technology to solve thermal management issues.

Ian Seaton, Technical Applications Development Manager

Ian Seaton has extensive product development experience in electro-mechanical systems. He serves on the BICSI standards committee responsible for the new data center design manual as editor of the rack and cabinet section and as a thermal consultant to the mechanical working group. He teaches BICSI accredited data center thermal management courses. Ian has written and spoken extensively on data center thermal management over the past 7+ years. He has a masters degree from California Polytechnic State University.

 

John Thompson, RCDD, Field Applications Engineer

John Thompson has more than 20 years of technical experience in the telecommunications industry and has been a BICSI-certified RCDD since 1997. As a contractor, John owned and operated a structured cabling installation company in the Mid-Atlantic region. Before recently joining Chatsworth Products, John was a consultant for a special systems design firm in Baltimore, MD that teamed with architects, MEP firms and worked directly with end users. In addition to assisting with AutoCAD design, John not only developed new construction specification documents but served as a project manager for healthcare and higher education facilities projects across the United States.

Michael Zhang, Technical Support Manager, Asia Pacific

Michael Zhang has more than 16 years experience in the IT industry. From 1994 to 2000, Michael was an IT manager in charge of the IT infrastructure for a global logistics company in greater China area. His main role was facilities manager, project manager, system consultant and trainer. Thereafter, Michael had another seven years IT experience in Canada as an IT Manger for an international logistics service provider before joining CPI. Michael’s expertise is in the field of structured cabling, datacenter facility management and project management. He was also invited to the Datacenter Standards board of committee of Shanghai.