Matt Archibald is the Director of Technical Architecture at nVent supporting the data center and networking space. Matt is deeply focused on liquid cooling (close-coupled and direct-to-chip), unified infrastructure management, data center monitoring, and automated data center infrastructure management. previously, Matt was the Global Installation & Planning Architect for Lenovo Professional Services and spent over 15 years in the data center space.

Previous to this, Matt worked as a development engineer in the IBM System x and BladeCenter power development lab doing power subsystem design for BladeCenter and System x servers. Matt holds 62 patents for various data center and hypervisor technologies. Matt has four degrees from Clarkson University in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from Auckland University of Technology.