Zahl Limbuwala has been in the information technology and telecoms sectors for over 15 years. Holding senior operational management posts in both FTSE100 and pre-IPO startups. Having a strong academic engineering background, Zahl has worked in real-time systems, process control engineering, software development, managed IT services, system integration in both public and private sector. Zahl also has strong international experience having worked in central Europe, North America and Asia. Zahl now provides strategic planning advise within the data centre/managed services/service provider world. Zahl has been involved with the evolution of the data centre over the last 10 years and founded the DCSG after realising the industry needed an independent body through which it could develop and share best practice. Zahl speaks regularly on behalf of the BCS and DCSG at public events and conferences in the information technology sector. More recently Zahl was elected onto the BCS-SGEC (Specialist Groups Executive Committee) as well as the BCS advisory council.(See: http://dcsg.bcs.org for more information.)Expertise: Data Centres