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Amir Hashmi, Founder & CEO Zsah
Amir is a technology and strategy expert with more than 20 years experience in the sector. As founder and CEO of zsah, his company provides managed cloud and technology services to a wide range of organisations, from government clients and large corporates to SMEs. Through zsah, Amir has experienced working in multiple leadership roles across diverse sectors including: technology, energy, healthcare, telecoms and finance for world-class organisations such as BP, Bertelsmann, Merck and Deutsche Bank.
Andy Hirst
As Managing Director of Critical Infrastructures at Sudlows, Andy oversees the entire division.
Alongside being a Board Director at Sudlows, Andy has previously held positions such as Chairman of
the ICCT on behalf of The ECA and been a member of the BICSI steering committee in the UK. He is
an incorporated Engineer, member of the MIET and has achieved the prestigious ATD accreditation
by the Uptime Institute and is currently studying for his MSc in Data Centre Leadership and
Management. Andy is a passionate ambassador for new data centre technology and a champion of
data centre energy efficiency.
David Kao
David has over 20 years experience in building highly performing global sales, marketing and product delivery teams with some of the world's largest technology giants. As Vice President of AccelStor, his company provides all-flash storage solutions with advanced FlexiRemap® technology to improve performance bottleneck and enhance data protection to a wide range of organisations, from government clients and enterprises. David is definitely an experienced professional with expertise in delivering success and growth across diverse sectors including: smart city, 5G AIOT, smart medical & healthcare, AI, BI, HPC, and virtualisation. David served as Managing Director of QSAN, Vice President of QNAP, and the co-founder and CEO of G-Cloud UK and NGE Group, as well as holding leadership positions at ASUS and HP, among others.
Ian Moyse
Ian Moyse is EMEA Sales Director at Natterbox, the Salesforce Cloud Telephony provider. Ian has sat on the Boards of industry bodies Eurocloud, FAST and the Cloud Industry Forum and is a non exec for Assuredata, Cranford Group and Zsah. He has been a judge for the UK Cloud Awards, Women in Sales Awards and BESMA awards. He has been rated #1 social influencer on cloud by Klout and 3 years running by Onalytica. He is widely published and has appeared on numerous lists as a top Cloud Blogger and social influences and blogs for Oracle, SAP, Sage and Equinix. Ian can be found at www.ianmoyse.co.uk and www.ianmoyse.cloud
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson, Director of APPS 365 LTD is an accomplished and progressive Solution Architect with 20 years’ experience in delivering IT infrastructure and application development; gained from diverse industries and technical environments. Peter brings to the fore, transferable working expertise in risk management, reporting, budget tracking and the deployment of project governance frameworks and methodologies within software delivery lifecycle and non-software projects, web, mobile, intranet, Cloud (Azure), SharePoint, Office 365, Windows 10, Project Server and Microsoft BI.
APPS 365 LTD combines advanced systems knowledge with deep insight into the impact of technology on business practices and behaviours, analysing change requirements and putting in place precise solutions for improving performance and optimising infrastructure/technology ROI. Peter is a very resourceful, results-drive and commercially astute individual offering strong leadership and exceptional people-management skills building strong relationships at all levels of the business.