Ian F Bitterlin
58 years old, Ian has been married to Lynne for 39 years and the family lives in the Cotswold Hills in the UK. Hobbies include classic automobiles, including his Coventry built 1949 Drop Head Coupe Daimler and clay-pigeon shooting.
With a BA in Mathematics, a First Class BSc(Hons) in Technology, a postgraduate Diploma in Design & Innovation and an Honorary Doctorate in Management, Ian’s career has taken him from the design office through site installation, application engineering, service and sales to senior management.
Seven years in engineering with Schindler Lifts led to fourteen years with Mannesmann Demag (rotating machines and variable speed drives). During this time Ian wrote numerous technical papers on the subject of variable speed drive systems in the material handling industry and presented them at international conferences including Hanover and Chicago, as well as in the UK. By 1990 he had reached the position of Divisional Manager.
Moving to Anton Piller (UPS) for seven years as a UK Director was the start of his long involvement within the critical power and cooling industry. This led to several posts within the Emerson organisation culminating in Managing Director of Emerson Network Power.
Since 2001 appointments have included VP EMEA and AsiaPac for Active Power Inc, International Sales Director for Chloride and, starting in 2008, as CTO of Prism Power Ltd – the exclusive provider of dynamic-rotary UPS systems manufactured by KST of Belgium.
An active speaker and author, technical papers on critical power and cooling have been presented at European conferences in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Benalmedina, Madrid and Barcelona whilst, further afield, conference presentations and keynote speeches have been made in Johannesburg, Sydney, Brisbane, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Sri Lanka, Tokyo and Seoul.
Ian was a co-author for the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers publication Guide K, Electricity in Buildings, in two chapters, UPS Systems and HV Switchgear.
Ian is a Member of several UK Engineering Institutions, including CIBSE, IET, the British Computer Society and the British Institute of Facility Managers as well as being a member of AFCOM and the IEEE.