Biographies

Victor Banuelos, Field Applications Engineer
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

Victor Banuelos has more than 14 years of experience in the IT community and five years in facilities maintenance management. He has worked as facilities administrator, software developer, marketing specialist, 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, Director of Product Management
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

Ted Behrens, Director of Product Management for Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) is responsible for overseeing CPI’s product management across all product lines to make sure the company offers the highest quality and most innovative solution sets. With extensive data center and product development experience, Ted leads new market identification projects and product positioning while also providing comprehensive product sales assistance. In addition, Ted serves as one of CPI’s expert speakers, presenting at various events educating attendees about power and infrastructure management solutions. 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
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

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. Steve was recognized as a Staff Technologist and has supported much of the Fab manufacturing sites with clean room construction and airflow management. 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 in mechanical and electrical construction as well as instrumentation will benefit CPI’s approach to “Simply Efficient” data centers.

Ian Cathcart, Technical Support Manager EMEA
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

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.

Brian Donowho has been with CPI for more than 11 years, spending time in Manufacturing Management as well as Product Management.  He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University and an MBA from Indiana University.  Brian has spent the last five years developing thermal management solutions for CPI’s Cabinets and Racks in data center applications and is currently engaged in developing improved cable management solutions for CPI’s data center customers.

Travis North, Thermal Design Engineer
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

Travis North is an expert in the field of single-phase and two-phase heat transfer and in the design of electro-mechanical systems. Prior to joining Chatsworth Products, Travis held the role of Senior Thermal Architect for Dell Inc. and was responsible for designing many of Dell’s Workstation products. Travis serves on the Green Grid Operations committee, DCDG committee, and consults to the thermal management workgroup. Travis is currently responsible for developing Chatsworth’s line of thermal solutions. 

Fernando Reyna has been with CPI for more than five years, and possesses more than 14 years of technical experience in the voice 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 has over thirty years of 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 and is currently the Technology Marketing Manager for Chatsworth Products.

Alan Taft, Senior Product Manager
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

Alan Taft, Senior Product Manager for Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) joined the company in 2005. He is responsible for managing CPI’s Rack, Electronic, Power, Seismic and Termination product lines. Alan also has over 20 years of product management experience within the OEM printer and hard Disk drive industries. He holds an Associate of Science in Electronics and a BSBA from University of Redlands, Calif.

John Thompson, RCDD, Field Applications Engineer
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

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, Field Applications Engineer
Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI)

Michael Zhang has more than 16 years experience in the IT industrial. Since 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 structure cabling, datacenter facility management and project management. He was also invited to the Datacenter Standards board of committee of Shanghai. His role in CPI is the Technical Support Manager for the Asia Pacific region in charge of technical support, end user education and customer support.