Steve Bornfield worked at Intel Corporation for over 20 years, holding various roles in facilities, wafer factory support and 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 also includes mechanical and electrical construction.
Matt Burkle has more than 20 years of experience in IT sales, reseller channel management, engineering and power quality design. Matt leverages his knowledge of IT trends and product solutions to support CPIs Sales Team and to provide the highest quality of support and solutions to CPI customers.
Tom Cabral, RCDD, has worked in the telecom industry for 27 years and has been employed with CPI for 22 years, serving as a Regional Sales Manager, Product Application Specialist and now Field Application Engineer. Tom provides technical advice and design specifications on complex product applications and acts as a technical liaison with a high level of knowledge on product operation and performance. Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Marketing and Business Communications from the University of Maryland.
With more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry, Emmanuel is a Mechatronics engineer that graduated from IPN (Mexico). He has specialized in data center topics globally, with a strong focus on support infrastructure. He has participated in multiple congress and scenarios where he had been speaker on energy backup technologies, sustainability, thermal efficiency conferences, and high-performance data process, he also has industry credentials such as ATD by Uptime Institute, DCP and DCDS by DCPRO.
Ian Cathcart has more than 20 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.
Ashish Moondra has more than 25 years of experience developing, managing and selling rack power distribution, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), energy storage and Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions. Ashish has previously worked with American Power Conversion, Emerson Network Power and Active Power, and has been an expert speaker at various data center forums including teaching a BICSI Masterclass on power protection, distribution and management.
Michael Moore brings over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Throughout his career, he has held numerous Product Management positions, where he successfully developed, launched, and managed innovative products across the Data Center, Airflow Management, and Information Technology sectors. During his previous tenure at CPI, Michael held roles such as Technical Support Specialist, Applications Engineer, Associate Product Manager, and Product Manager.
Bree is an ICT professional with more than 30 years of experience in the industry managing, training, presenting, and selling. She is an accredited 23-year BICSI member, accomplished RCDD, an active and contributing committee volunteer for the BICSI International Standards program, and Women in BICSI. Bree currently provides global technical training, and selling in the wireless, wired, and enterprise building spaces.
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 a 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.
Sam Rodriguez is the Senior Product Manager for Cabinets, Containment & Industrial Solutions at Chatsworth Products. He has over 31 years of experience in the communications market and has been an employee owner for 26 years. He has held several progressive roles including Senior Product Manager for Cabinet and Thermal Solutions, Technical Services Supervisor and Technical Support. As a Senior Product Manager, he manages CPI’s ZetaFrame Cabinet System, RMR Industrial Enclosures and Aisle Containment portfolio.
John Thompson has more than 40 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. Prior to 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.
Scott Thompson is the founder and president of Oberon. Mr. Thompson founded Oberon in 1999 as a wireless networking design firm, and, from lessons learned in wireless network design, created products and solutions for other professionals in the industry. As President of the Oberon Division of Chatsworth Products, Inc. he continues to focus on enabling and facilitating secure wireless infrastructure in virtually any venue. Prior to Oberon, Mr. Thompson worked in the Datacom, Automotive radar, and Defense electronics industries.
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 the greater China area. His main roles included facilities manager, project manager, system consultant and trainer. Thereafter, Michael had another seven years of IT experience in Canada as an IT manager for an international logistics service provider before joining CPI.
Ted Behrens oversees the direction and management of CPI globally. He is responsible for ensuring the company continues its growth in the global ICT and industrial enclosure markets and maintains the core value of “Delighting the Customer” with CPI’s products and services.
