Rob Aldrich
Turning Technology Into Competitive Advantage
Hands-On Executive. Global Results.
I’ve spent 25 years at the sharp end of enterprise technologies. Not advising from the sidelines, but building, leading, and delivering.
As co-creator of Cisco EnergyWise, I helped pioneer new, digital energy management at global scale. At AWS, I led the Sustainable Solutions practice globally, delivering programs for Amazon’s own net-zero operations including the Climate Pledge Arena, Fulfillment Centers, Office Space, Retail and Food Operations. I’ve done sustainability audits for more than 70 data centers worldwide, including the US EPA’s National Computing Center, and delivered Cisco’s corporate sustainability transformation, saving more than $40M USD while achieving the world’s largest verified Green IT project savings.
Today, I’m at the forefront of driving AI transformation, cell-based architectures, operational changes and process engineering at scale.
My lifelong passion to give back has been through sustainability and my philosophy is simple: sustainability is a hidden problem and data makes it visible, lets get the right data, to the right people, to take the right action.
The Results
My work has taken me all across the globe and I’ve been lucky to work with many amazing people. I’ve done sustainability audits for more than 70 data centers, including the US EPA’s National Computing Center, led the greening of Cisco and delivered an entire portfolio of Sustainable Solutions for Amazon. Here are some of the results.
Proven at the Highest Level
I’ve had the privilege of delivering complex technology programs for some of the world’s most demanding organisations.
The Book that Started a Movement
Energy-as-a-Service is the industry’s first practical guide to deploying IP-enabled energy management, at scale, across a global real estate portfolio. It’s also the documented story of how a small team at Cisco built and deployed a global energy management system that saved $40M+ and earned recognition from Greenpeace, the Association of Energy Engineers, the US DOE and EPA.
Winner of the 2013, 2014 Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge and the 2015 Association of Energy Engineers International Award.
The strategies in this book of treating sustainability as a data problem are more relevant today than when it was written.