About Us

TDCS named in the Top 10 Sustainability Consultants

TDCS are a team of data centre and media business professionals, many with 30+ years of industry experience. Our aim is to provide a cost-effective, efficient, un-biased and targeted range of services to our customers by leveraging our contacts, knowledge and industry expertise in establishing and running data centres.

We listen to you and understand your business objectives and then provide a bespoke solution that meets your requirements.

Jonathan Evans MA

Jonathan founded TDCS in 2003 when working for Citadel 100 (formally known as Global Voice) – a new co-location facility in Dublin.

He started his career designing computer rooms in the early 80’s. After graduating with an Engineering Degree from Birmingham University, he went on to gather experience in all other aspects of data centres.

Jonathan has:

High-level personal connections in every area in this sector including press & TV, specialist property agents (CBRE, JLL, Cushman, Colliers), data centre consultants, prospective enterprise clients and other verticals including hyper-scalers.
Sales and marketing unique expertise in establishing co-location data centres (in particular ‘green’ facilities).
Knowledge of M&E and data centre design (particularly ‘green’ technology), and is up to date with all the latest trends including the ‘Open Compute Project’.

He successfully:

Contributed to the formation of colocation data centres Citadel 100 in Dublin and Sentrum in the UK.
Assisted in the formation of Green Mountain Data Centre, raising the profile of Norway as a data centre destination and Green Mountain internationally over three years and sourcing multi-megawatt enquiries. As a result, Green Mountain are now a successful colocation company and was recently acquired by an Israeli fund for €1.2 Billion.
Raised the profile internationally of LuxConnect, in Luxembourg, over three years and generated enquiries for co-location space.
Worked in collaboration with the Luxembourg Government in promoting Luxembourg as a fintech destination.
Advises on marketing strategy at EcoDataCenter in Sweden, the 'climate positive' data center, and develops a sales pipeline with international clients.
Consultant to www.nodepole.com advising data center operators who wish to locate in Sweden.

Jonathan on a webinar with JSA TV’s João Marques Lima discussing his experiences and the sustainability challenges facing the industry

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Aline Olseth

Aline’s main focus is on pre-developments for data centers in the Nordics and South America where preliminary land rights are being secured, along with local approvals to determine the feasibility of any project prior to the application for the grid connection.

Dr Fiona McNaughton

Dr Fiona McNaughton multi award-winning BBC Producer, Writer and Director with thirty years’ experience in online, journalism and marketing experience. Gaining a PhD in science has led to expertise in sustainability, the environment, science and natural history.

Currently looking to take on work in:

TV and video production.
Online resource and website production.
In-depth article-writing.
PR, marketing and campaign work.
Stakeholder and project management.

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Vanessa Moffat

Marketing, strategy and growth hacking specialist, with over 15 years’ experience in the data centre and tech industries.

Holds a BSc in Computer Science, a Post Grad Diploma in Business Administration, as well as an MBA from Essex University where she specialised in agile IT architectures for maximum business value.
Successfully led strategy development and implementation programmes in multiple international data centre organisations.

David Gyulnazaryan

David’s activity is focused on decarbonisation and using the data center as the source of the heat. His experience in heat transfer helps to unite the data center heat rejection and district heating network.

He provide support in finding the hot spots of GHG emissions in whole data center life time and create optimised design for useful heat. David also work in OCP Modular Data Center and Immersion cooling projects to create open source solutions for industry.

Stefan Frenzel

Stefan based in Munich, Germany is an international executive with many years of experience in marketing & business development. He worked for various IT companies during the last 20 years and has a high affinity for IT/technology.

Stefan is committed to offer tailored marketing & business consulting services to his clients, with a special focus on companies from the data centre industry within the DACH region (Germany, Austria & Switzerland). He has the know-how to solve and to assist in achieving quantifiable results, based on proven methods and his extensive network in this important system relevant industry.

Among other clients from the IT-/ data center industry, he is well-known for representing the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) in the DACH region. The Open Compute Project Foundation was initiated in 2011 and is a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure.

Michael Meaney

A customer-centred professional, Michael has worked in middle management type roles and has managed diverse teams of professionals from digital publishing to data centre services.

His work experience and specialties include: Design/Brand Production and Management, Digital Marketing, Client Account and Vendor Management, Data Centre Quality and Information Security Compliance and Administration. He has previously worked in management roles within; Perigord Group, Citadel100 Data Centres and Keppel Data Centres.

Chris McIntosh

Chris previously Data Centre Operational Manager Barclays Bank with 15 years’ experience of managing data centres across global environments.

Drove the strategy and transformational programme across the EMEA estate (>150 facilities), consolidating small diverse environments into more efficient and easily managed enterprise sites.
Keen to focus on the Oil & Gas Energy and Banking/Finance markets.
Covers all aspects of data centre consolidation and/or migration.
Broad working knowledge of data centre operational management, including 'best practices', 'audit', TCO and energy/financial optimisations regimes.

Chris Horton

Chris has 30 years’ experience working in senior roles for some of the world’s largest IT and communications providers.

His experience includes:

Unisys (14 years) leading vertically aligned sales organisations that provided clients with data centre and network design as well as build services. As senior member of the EMEA management team, Chris played a key role in the definition and delivery of Unisys' move from technology-based sales to a customer services sales corporation.
BT as Financial Services Line of Business Unit Manager.
Amdahl as UK Sales Director.
Fujitsu Services as Financial Services Sales Director and then Head of Data Centre Service Sales where he was a key contributor to the creating and marketing of his company's data centre ‘tower’ offering. In these roles he helped Global clients define and implement part, or all, of their data centre transformation strategy.
UK Sales & Marketing Director for a market leading satellite communications business.
Head of Sales for the Global outsource division of a market leading Californian software company.

His approach is:

To take a holistic view of his clients' business outcome requirements, translating them into a single, high value, low cost Total Cost of Compute (TCC) solution. He achieves this by applying his first-hand understanding of Real Estate, DC Facilities, IT & NW Infrastructure build, service and run costs. This approach involves understanding the impact that these facets have on each other when determining the end to end TCC.
To help his IT clients achieve technical transformation, DC consolidation and operational improvements. This allows his clients to improve the value of the service they provide to their internal customers.

Anita Kennedy

Anita has an exceptional background in Start-ups’ Sales, Senior Executive Management.

Anita has worked in many countries - Specializing in large Global Outsourcing deals via direct sales/indirect Global SI's and Alliances having worked for/with some of the world’s largest & leading System Integrators & Telecommunication companies in the world such as IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Dell, BT, C&W/Vodafone TCS, HCL, Wipro, Cognizant, Infosys and Schneider Electric; covering many aspects of today’s wider business/IT environment.
She works across all verticals both Direct/Indirect Channels & Alliances with, multiple 10,000's of global exec contacts, of corporate and Government customers, built up over many years, within a multitude of industries.
She has a 'unique' style: understanding her client’s business needs with the ability to articulate back and, work through a win-win situation whilst, still holding quite a rare entrepreneur quality, within large corporate environments.

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