James VanGilder
Schneider Electric
Data Center Infrastructure Management
email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: James VanGilder

Jim is responsible for Schneider Electric’s data-center-cooling software encompassing both software development and related research.    He has authored or co-authored more than 30 technical papers and holds more than 10 patents in the field of data center cooling.  He is currently the Chair of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technical Committee 4.10, Indoor Environmental Modeling, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Massachusetts.  He has master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University with a background in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).