Andy Tolbert
Senior Vice President - Engineering Echelon Data Centres
Andy Tolbert is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Echelon Data Centres, bringing over 30 years of experience designing, building and operating hyperscale data centres across North America and EMEA. He leads globally distributed engineering and operations teams to deliver mission-critical infrastructure at scale — safely, efficiently and with uncompromising reliability. His expertise spans the full data centre lifecycle, from site selection and design through commissioning and optimisation, including deployment of millions of square feet of white space and gigawatts of power. Andy excels at aligning infrastructure strategy with business objectives while championing excellence, operational discipline and leadership development.
Seminars
- Planning prefab by system type to clearly define what can be prebuilt, what requires onsite customization, and how to maximize multi-trade prefab and modular
- Evaluating the essential prefabrication decisions during design to influence procurement and cost control
- Developing strategies to avoid oversaturating the prefabricator supply chain through the evaluation on the extent of modularization to available skilled labor, logistics capabilities, and regional factors
- Leveraging lessons learned from early modularization pilots to identify the key success factors, pitfalls, and best practices for scaling prefab modular data center construction
