Dean Boyle founded EkkoSense with Stu Redshaw in 2013, with a clear mission to help organizations resolve the thermal risks their data centers face from inefficient cooling strategies. As CEO he has driven the company’s development – from a start-up through to its current position as a leading provider of software-driven thermal optimization and capacity planning for critical live environments.

Previously Dean spent almost five years as Managing Director of 4energy, establishing a new VC-backed business focused on delivering energy savings in ICT rooms. Earlier he ran his own IBM infrastructure services business, building on his background in leading technical services teams supporting major IBM and ERP IT deployments.

Stu Redshaw holds a doctorate in heat transfer and thermodynamics from Nottingham University and specializes in revolutionary clean tech and energy efficient systems. He is particularly recognized for his focus on resolving thermal challenges and has led many breakthrough academic projects in this area. In addressing today’s thermal challenges, his goal has always been to look at technical problems from first principles and challenge the status quo.

Before founding EkkoSense, Stu was a director of Delta-T, a specialist in energy efficiency and heat transfer within the HVAC, building services, facilities management and utilities sectors. He also spent eight years as CTO at 4energy where he focused on applying his thermodynamics expertise to the challenges of equipment cooling.

Peter Le Noury joined EkkoSense in 2019 as CFO and Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for driving the company’s operations and financial management as it continues to expand internationally. He brings over 15 years’ experience as both an international Group CFO and as a Regional Managing Director, and a track record of operating successfully at both global operations and strategy board levels.

In addition to leadership roles with private equity backed businesses and as an Investment Director for a venture management firm, Peter Le Noury has also served as a Head of Main Audit for KPMG and as an Audit Manager with BDO Reads.

In this board-level position Paul Milburn is responsible for driving the development of the company’s EkkoSoft Critical SaaS 3D visualization and analytics solution and Critical Things range of sensors and integration options. Paul brings over ten years’ senior product management experience to the role and focuses on the EkkoSoft Critical platform in key areas such as self-optimization and advanced analytics.

For six years Paul previously held the position of Head of Product Management at EkkoSense, where he played a key role in bringing EkkoSoft Critical to market. Before joining EkkoSense he spent five years as Product Manager for a DCIM vendor. Paul is also a qualified Management Accountant, and holds a Degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Nottingham University.

An experienced Operations Director, Michelle brings proven senior project management skills to the EkkoSense team, and heads up many of our key account relationships. She has an excellent knowledge of the data center optimization sector after spending the last decade working with a leading EkkoSense partner, where she was responsible for one of the largest EkkoSense Critical deployments at one of the UK’s leading media/telco operators.

Stephen Edwards has been Chairman of the EkkoSense board since April 2017, and brings over 40 years’ in the software and technology markets.

His executive career included running the European operations of major US companies, such as Dun and Bradstreet Software and Manugistics, before becoming CEO of two VC backed software companies. Subsequently he has been involved in many UK and European software organizations as non-executive Chairman or director. He is currently Chairman of EkkoSense Ltd, Chairman of S4RB Ltd, Chairman of James Tobias Ltd, Chairman of Protean Ltd, and sits on the EMEA Advisory Board of Blue Prism Group.

Mark Acton brings over 25 years’ senior global data center operations and consulting experience, both in senior executive and non-exec roles. He spent seven years as Head of Data Center Technical Consulting with CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, where he was responsible for ensuring the company’s DCS service offering set the highest possible benchmarks. He previously worked as a consultant with the Uptime Institute, Dell and Intel, as well as running global data center operations for Digital Island. Mark is actively engaged in European data center standards development, and currently chairs the Best Practice Committee for the European Code of Conduct for Data Center Energy Efficiency.

Mike is a Director at Foresight Group plc, a leading private equity investor in UK SMEs with an Enterprise Value up to £50m, managing c.£7.2 billion of assets. Mike focuses on investments of up to £10m into growth companies that are based in the UK across a range of sectors and different transaction types. As well as sitting on the EkkoSense board as Investment Director, Mike also sits on the board of a number of other UK SMEs across the TMT, Consumer and Industrial sectors.

Based in Texas, USA, Jonathan Gould is responsible for driving sales of EkkoSense’s innovative AI-enabled software solution EkkoSoft Critical in markets across North and South America.

Jonathan previously spent the last five years at Schneider Electric as Software Sales Manager for the company’s EcoStruxure data center software portfolio. Jonathan brings over 20 years’ solution selling and channel management experience to EkkoSense, having previously worked for a number of leading data center and infrastructure solutions specialists including APC, NetBotz and Momentum Software. Read more here.

Matthew Farnell brings deep data center software and DCIM infrastructure expertise to EkkoSense. In his role as EMEA Director of Sales he is focused on helping to establish EkkoSense as the smart choice for the growing number of organisations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa who are looking to redefine their data center performance.

Matthew joined EkkoSense from Schneider Electric, where he spent the last five years as European Sales Director for Software and Digital Services. In this position he was responsible for driving sales of the company’s cloud-based DCIM solution and developing sales partnerships across the EMEA region. Before joining Schneider Electric, he worked as an EMEA Strategic Alliance Manager for APC. Read more here.

Adrian joined EkkoSense from Vertiv, where as Senior Director for Business Development he was responsible for executing the company’s solutions strategy and driving growth across the entire Vertiv portfolio. Before that he spent seven years with RF Code, building the team that delivered the company’s first $1m+ account in the EMEA region before serving as RF Code’s General Manager for EMEA.

James Kirkwood has been instrumental in developing EkkoSense’s DCOP (Data Center Optimization) engagement model that offers structured services to not only secure data center cooling energy savings but also remove thermal risk and ensure ASHRAE-compliance. James holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University, and has worked in the data center and telecommunications sector for the past 15 years. Before joining EkkoSense he developed new free-air cooling products around the globe and also worked as a national Energy Manager for BT who manage one of the largest estates in the UK.

With over 20 years’ in-depth electrical and electronics engineering design and development experience, David Corder leads engineering development across EkkoSense’s portfolio of products and solutions for critical environments - the data center, telecoms, utilities and renewables sectors. He joined EkkoSense in 2017 from his role as Senior Design Engineer at Technology Solutions.

David has a doctorate in instrumentation for ensuring safety compliance in industrial laser systems and an MEng in Electronic Engineering. He has worked in the electronics industry in both management and hardware design roles, with responsibility for the full product lifecycle from design through to volume manufacture in areas as diverse as Radio Frequency Identification and Commercial Vehicle Security. David’s product design work produced several industry first products which were subsequently adopted by major companies such as Motorola and Texas Instruments as own branded products.

Jim heads up EkkoSense’s enterprise software development team – constantly enhancing the EkkoSense Critical solution suite and working closely with customers to ensure their solution wish lists are reflected in our software roadmap. With a track record of enterprise software development success, Jim joined the EkkoSense team in 2020 to lead the team driving ongoing EkkoSoft Critical innovation.

Sheila heads up EkkoSense’s compliance activities– ensuring EkkoSense industry best practice – including the ISO 27001 certification awarded in late 2020, security and safety. In Sheila’s HR role she has been instrumental in attracting industry experts to join the growing EkkoSense team. Sheila joined EkkoSense back in 2014, and has been a key enabler of the company’s strong development.

Ben Iremonger brings over twenty years' experience to his role as Finance Manager at EkkoSense. He initially began working as an accountant at Pells Chartered Accountants, before moving to Smith Cooper and becoming an Accounts Senior. Before joining EkkoSense in 2016 Ben spent several years in Financial Controller positions.

Soraya heads up the EkkoSense operations team, managing customer and internal escalation through to resolution, with a clear vision to drive and deliver service excellence across the business. Soraya joined EkkoSense in 2018 after a successful career in Design Engineering and Development Design.