Mr. Shlomo Novotny's experience spans over 25 years, as a leader of multi-discipline international development teams delivering cutting edge technology and products with Aavid Thermalloy, Sun Microsystems, DEC, Codex, Magnavox, and Bell Laboratories. Shlomo is now engaged with Chilldyne as the business development VP. Previously he was the director of technology and business development for Nortek Air Solutions and the CTO of Vette Corp. While CTO of Vette Corp., he founded the Coolcentric division, a data center liquid cooling solutions provider, leading it to profitability within its first three years and building the division’s name recognition. Mr. Novotny is a co-founder of the ASHRAE TC 9.9 technical committee whose mission is to create industry standards for data center cooling, and was an influential member of the PCI and InfiniBand industry committees that defined new interconnect bus architecture standards. He holds 20 patents to date. He is the author of several publications across the industry. ASME Fellow, IEEE senior member, IMAPS member, ASHRAE-TC 9.9 technical committee.
He has earned Masters and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.