Meet the Speakers for the European SharePoint Conference 2013

Abi Onifade, AvePoint, EMEA

Abi Onifade leads the Systems Engineering Team at AvePoint UK. He oversees all pre and post sales activities for AvePoint's EMEA1 Region. He has experience in design, architecture, development and deployment of Web based applications and has been involved in SharePoint Technologies since 2003. Abi enjoys sharing his passion for SharePoint and its user community, and is often speaking at SharePoint community events and conferences across EMEA. Abi holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering.

Adis Jugo, MVP, PlanB., Bosnia And Herzegowina

Adis Jugo is a software architect with over 20 years of experience, and Microsoft MVP for SharePoint server. He has first met SharePoint (and Microsoft CMS server) back in 2002, and since 2006 his focus was completely shifted towards architecture and development of solutions based on the SharePoint technology.

Adis is working as a Managing Consultant for PlanB., a company with headquarters in Germany, and branch offices in Bosnia and Bulgaria. He is also a speaker at various conferences, as well as at meetings of the various Microsoft User Groups.

Adis likes to keep his free time really free, since there isn't much of it. He prefers spending it with his family.

Adis' SharePoint blog, with the topics which are covering SharePoint architecture, development, planning and governance can be found at http://adisjugo.com 

Agnes Molnar, MVP, BA Insight, Hungary

Agnes Molnar is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and serves as a Senior Solutions Consultant for BA Insight. With a strong focus on Enterprise Search and Information Management, she has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001, and has architected dozens of SharePoint and FAST implementations for commercial and government organisations throughout Europe and the Americas. In her role at BA Insight, Agnes helps guide the company's product development team, and oversees enterprise-level deployments of the company's technologies around the world. A co-author and contributor to several SharePoint books, including 'Real World SharePoint 2010' and 'SharePoint 2010 Unleashed', Agnes is a regular speaker at technical conferences and symposiums around the world. On her blog (www.Aghy.hu ), Agnes regularly writes on the topics of enterprise search best practices, and SharePoint and FAST technologies.

Andreas Hogberg, Telenor, Norway

Andreas is a Service Line Director in Telenor's Shared Service Center, responsible for operation, development and project delivery of Telenor's internal solutions within Unified Communication and Collaboration, as well as Web- and Enterprise Content Management. He is the Project Owner of Telenor's participation in Microsoft's RDP program for SharePoint 2013. His previous experience include offshoring, process improvement, and sourcing.

Andrej Doms, MVP, MT AG, Germany

Andrej Doms is the team leader for the SharePoint consultants and developers working for MT AG IT Consulting in Ratingen, Germany. He started his career in 1997 with the focus on Lotus Domino and later focused on IBM WebSphere. Since the first incarnation of SharePoint in 2001, he has lead many successful SharePoint projects and provided guidance for case studies and proof-of-concepts to top ranking businesses in Germany. He focuses on infrastructures, high availability, data security, knowledge management and collaboration. Andrej shares his knowledge and his experiences in regular workshops and as a well known speaker on conferences all around Germany. He is the leader of the SharePoint Community user group in Düsseldorf.

Asger Steffensen, WorkPoint, Denmark

Asger Steffensen has for 15 years been working in Danish and international software and consulting companies. His career has spanned from technical consultant, over project management, to management. Asger Steffensen has spent five years of his career living and working abroad, and was for two years Information Systems lecturer and research fellow at University of Tasmania, Australia.
Asger Steffensen holds a Master of Science degree in Management and Information Systems, and is one of five partners in WorkPoint A/S.

Bill Ayers, MCM, Flow Simulation Ltd. UK

Dr. Bill Ayers is a consultant developer and software architect who has been working on SharePoint since the 2003 version of the product, and is a Microsoft Certified Master, SharePoint Server 2010. He specializes in web content management and Intranet portals and has over 20 years' experience in the software industry. His twitter handle is @SPDoctor and his blog can be found at www.spdoctor.net. He is also a moderator on SharePoint.StackExchange.com.

Chris McNulty, MCTS, Dell, USA

Chris McNulty is the General manager for SharePoint Solutions at Quest Software (now part of Dell),. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTSP programs. A frequent speaker at events around the world , Chris is also the author of the "SharePoint 2010 Consultant's Handbook - Managed Metadata Service," and blogs at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and http://www.sharepointforall.com.

Christian Buckley, MVP, Axceler, USA

Christian Buckley is a SharePoint MVP, an internationally recognised author and speaker, and Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives product awareness and both partner and community development. He previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise-hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of Office365), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was Managing Director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with some of the world's largest hi-tech and manufacturing companies to build and deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (MSPress), three books on software configuration management and defect tracking, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet.

Christian Glessner, MVP MCT, Experts Inside, Germany

Christian Glessner is working as Chief Executive Sharepinter at Experts Inside. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint and founder of the CodePlex project and blog "iLove SharePoint", where he shares his ideas and excitement about SharePoint. Christian is a creative thinker, who is passionately engaged with innovative technologies. His current favorite topics include SharePoint development, Azure, dynamic languages, and social computing.

Dan Gøran Lunde, Microsoft, Norway

Dan Gøran Lunde is originally from FAST Search & Transfer. Currently working as Architect in Microsoft's Western Europe Enterprise Search Team. Dan was working with one of Microsoft early adaptors in a SharePoint 2013 search project.

Dan Holme, MVP, Intelliem, USA

In his 18-year career, Dan Holme, Microsoft Technologies Evangelist at Intelliem, has reached hundreds of thousands of IT professionals, executives, and users at almost every Fortune 100 enterprise, and well more than half of the Fortune 500 and Global 1000. His deep experience solving customers' IT and business challenges and educating the global technical community have earned Dan a reputation as one of the most respected and expert voices in the Microsoft technology community-a sought-after consultant, bestselling author, and renowned speaker.

Dan, a native of Colorado, resident of Maui, and graduate of Yale and Thunderbird, has been recognized as an MVP for six years, and as one of the top ten partner MVPs in the world. Dan has penned hundreds of articles for SharePoint Pro Magazine and numerous bestselling books and training courses for Microsoft Learning. This summer, Dan served as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics during the broadcast of the 2012 Olympics in London, a role he also played in Torino, Beijing, and Vancouver. You can learn more about Dan, his work, and his contact information, at http://tiny.cc/danholme

Daniel Wessels, MVP, MicroVation GmbH, Germany

Daniel Wessels is co-founder and managing director of MicroVation GmbH, a German-based company specialising in planning, building and customising SharePoint environments. As a senior consultant and developer for SharePoint technologies he is responsible for the consulting services group within MicroVation. He started to work with SharePoint Technologies beginning with version 2001 Beta 2. Since then Microsoft awarded him the MVP designation for his contributions to newsgroups, forums and within the Microsoft Student Program. Daniel is co-organiser of the SharePoint User Group in Munich and Bremen.

Dmitry Plotnikov, KMS Software Company, Russian Federation

SharePoint MVP, MSP Volga Champ, Izhevsk Developer Community Lead.
Active blogger with articles on Russian resources Microsoft, as well as the leader of Izhevsk Developer Community. Working in the Russian office of the American company, developing direction portals.

Edward O'Meara, Kodak, France

Edward O'Meara is responsible for the strategy and actions to drive Document Imaging Software & Solutions revenue growth for Kodak in EMEA, helping Partners & Customers make capturing, processing, collaborating and finding documents in SharePoint easier, more efficient & affordable. With 8 years of experience in Document Management, and since introducing Kodak Document Imaging solutions to Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience in 2009, he is a regular speaker at Microsoft SharePoint Conferences, evangelizing on the ECM value of SharePoint that can be leveraged thanks to Kodak and its Partners.

Eric Harlan, Microsoft, USA

Eric has been in the IT industry for eleven years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for seven years. Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation. Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, Eric is the first on the ground to troubleshoot SharePoint issues as well as kick off proactive engagements.

Eric is involved with many volunteer organisations from SharePoint Saturdays, Global SharePoint Users Group, and educational code camps to President and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint Users Group.
Eric also does many speaking events revolving around SharePoint. Topics range from SharePoint Development, InfoPath development tricks and gotchas to basic SharePoint sessions for the end user.

Erica Toelle, InfoShare, USA

Erica Toelle is a seasoned Business Architect and Consultant who has been working with SharePoint since 2004. Erica has spent much of that time focused on Organisational Change Management (OCM) project roles, and was among the first in the industry to customise OCM methodologies to be more appropriate for the fast-paced nature of SharePoint implementations. She enjoys helping customers create business solutions using out of the box SharePoint features, Microsoft Office and SharePoint Designer, and training customers on how to use these technologies. Erica lives in Seattle and enjoys traveling the world to meet members of the SharePoint community.

Geoff Evelyn, MVP, SIT, UK

Geoff Evelyn is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, having over 25 years of experience in information systems technology, having worked in education, call centre, governance, military, banking, oil and gas industries. Geoff has involved himself in the wonderful land of SharePoint since 2003; and focuses on SharePoint Implementation, Service, Support and Automation. Geoff has authored 'Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects', co-authored the Microsoft Office Specialist Microsoft Office 2010 Study Guide, authored the Microsoft Office Specialist SharePoint 2010 Study Guide (Exam 77-886). Geoff is currently working on two books to be published by May 2013 - authoring 'SharePoint 2013 User Planning and Governance', and co-authoring the 'Microsoft Office Specialist Microsoft Office 2013 Study Guide'). Geoff also manages to find time as an active member of the editorial board for the Software Development Journal run by the Institute of Analysts and Programmers; writes articles for the Information Management Services journal, provides free implementation on his site (http://www.sharepointgeoff.com), as well as being an active contributor to MSDN, TechNET Editorial Boards and associated newsletter and forum channels.

Gerard Warrens, Stealth Software, Netherlands

Gerard Warrens is Co-Founder and CEO of Stealth Software. Prior to STEALTH Software, Mr. Warrens worked for a number of large international IT- and manufacturing companies in various management positions in The Netherlands, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He held management roles at Tenneco, Bayer and EMC, where he grew the Aerospace and Defense business 9-fold in 4 years as member of the EMEA Public Sector Management team. He also served as a subject matter expert for the Trans Atlantic Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) and participated in Boeing's initiative for industry on IT network centricity in Washington DC. Mr. Warrens holds a master's degree in Marketing from the Dutch Institute of Marketing (NIMA-C) and a bachelor's degree in law & economics from the Dutch Higher School for Administration and Economics. He is a graduate of IMD's, Lausanne Program: Sustaining High Performance.

Havard Melgaard, Microsoft, Norway

Håvard Melgaard has over 16 years of experience within the IT industry, and joined Microsoft in Norway in 2003. At Microsoft Norway, he has held different roles, dealing with strategic IT in an organization. Håvard has worked with a wide range of product areas and solutions with different industries. Currently Håvard is responsible to drive the Microsoft PPM solution engagements with Microsoft's large and strategic accounts across both private and public sector in Norway.

Henrik Damslund, Delegate A/S, Denmark

Henrik Damslund is a leading SharePoint Infrastructure and Search Architect working for the leading SharePoint consulting company in Denmark - Delegate A/S. Henrik has implemented some of the largest SharePoint infrastructure projects in Denmark.

Hilton Giesenow, MVP, Experts Inside, South Africa

Based out of beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, Hilton is a software development professional and consultant, these days working primarily with SharePoint, Office 365 and the Azure family of products. His experience includes development, architecture, team leadership, consulting and project management roles. He is a lead for the local .net and information worker communities, an internationally recognized author, speaker, podcaster and webcaster and a long-standing Microsoft MVP. You can find his SharePoint podcast at http://www.TheMossShow.com/ and a more detailed bio at http://hilton.giesenow.com/.

Ian White, Microsoft, Western Europe

lan White has spent the last two decades supporting Collaboration. Infrastructure end Business Solutions primarily in Europe and the US. As both a business partner and customer Ian has deployed complex infrastructures and systems in both advanced (1st world) and developing (3rd world) environments Ian Is a current blogger for the prestigious UK publication Computer Weekly on his favourite subject. Collaboration, and it was to become Involved with this area of Microsoft's portfolio that he joined the Company in 2008. Currently lan is In a Western Europe headquarters role supporting both Enterprise Project Management and Visio in twelve countries with a responsibility that ranges from initial technical discussions with Customers and Partners to assisting with early deployment.

Ivan Padabed, MVP, EPAM Systems, Belarus

Enterprise solution architect, trying to keep hands dirty with writing code and configuring real environments. Focused on Microsoft technology stack, primarily SharePoint and all the satellites: Office, ASP .NET, WWF/WCF/WIF, Enterprise Search/FAST, O365 and Azure.
Project coordinator, mentor, SCRUM master, technical consultant, trainer, speaker. Technical certifications: MCTS, MCPD, MCITP; Trainer certifications: MCT Community; awards: MVP

James Baldwin, EMC Microsoft Proven Solutions, Ireland

Manager of EMC's Microsoft Proven Solutions, responsible for creating whitepapers, demos and solutions for SharePoint customers from small to very large. Has been working with EMC's customers in making the most of infrastructure and storage technology to enable SharePoint to improve scale, resiliency and recovery. For more information go to EMC.com/sharepoint

James Fowell, Axceler, UK

With over 13 years of experience within leading Microsoft and IBM gold partners, James Fowell is the leading SharePoint expert in the Axceler EMEA Headquarters in London. James has extensive systems analysis and programming experience in business functions such as IT, Finance, Human Resources and Training and has been specialising in SharePoint since 2008. He currently manages, develops, and trains the EMEA Sales Engineering team and is responsible for all pre sales activity across the region.

Jason Kaczor, MVP, Illumination Industries Ltd., Canada

Jason Kaczor is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and an independent consultant, specialising in SharePoint and .NET technologies; architecture, design, governance, operations and training, as well as custom solutions and applications. He has been providing technical solutions to business problems for 20 years, covering nearly all industry sectors.
Formerly a Premier Field Engineer/Rapid Response Engineer for Microsoft Canada, he provided SharePoint and .NET expertise worldwide. While at Microsoft, he was involved in several unique initiatives, including; Bad Guy Patrol and the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS). He has always been involved in user group and community-based initiatives, most recently as a co-founder of the Calgary SharePoint User Group (CalSPUG).
For fun, he does the typical old-school geeky/nerdy activities and is trying to convince his kids that programming is cool.

Jasper Oosterveld, Wortell, Netherlands

Jasper Oosterveld lives in Amsterdam with his wife Katie and dog Millie. He has five years' experience as a SharePoint Consultant. In his role as SharePoint Consultant he supports customers with the process of implementing SharePoint. Through workshops and interviews he finds the requirements for the SharePoint portal. He configures SharePoint with the out-of-the-box features, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer and Nintex Workflow. The implementation process ends with an end user training and overseeing the adoption process.

Jasper is an active member of the SharePoint community. He regularly speaks at community events such as TechReady, DIWUG and SharePoint Saturday. He is the co-founder of the site SPCNL. SPCNL collects Dutch SharePoint articles written by SharePoint experts and enthusiasts. In February 2012 he received the Microsoft Community Contributor award for supporting the SharePoint community at the TechNet forums. His blog, www.jasperoosterveld.com, contains English SharePoint articles about multiple subjects such as SharePoint Online. His articles also get published at the biggest SharePoint Community site: NothingButSharePoint.com

Jens Rassloff, KPMG AG, Germany

Jens has been in the Information Management industry for nearly 20 years, and helped numerous global clients to shape and execute their Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy. For the last couple of years Jens has focused on SharePoint related topics, in particular strategy, architecture, governance and compliance and worked closely with Microsoft Services and KPMG.

Jeremy Thake, MVP MCT, AvePoint Inc, USA

Jeremy Thake utilizes more than 10 years of software development industry experience and expertise in Microsoft technologies to assist global enterprises in building solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. As a SharePoint MVP, Jeremy's proven expertise has earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups worldwide. Jeremy is a co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com, a SharePoint community portal, focusing on the Developer Channel and built the platform on top of SharePoint 2010.

Joel Oleson, LDS, USA

Blogger, Traveler, and Social Media guru, Joel has travelled to over 100 countries since 2008. This past year he visited all 7 continents. When Joel is not traveling at all ends of the earth he is managing the collaboration team at the LDS Church. He was the first SharePoint Administrator ever and spent 7 years at Microsoft including a few years on the SharePoint team. This year as a 12 year SharePoint veteran he was awarded 2012 top SharePoint blog and a top 50 influencer in the community. Joel is playing a significant role in the Microsoft acquisition of Yammer and is recognized by both Microsoft and Yammer as a very influential social media expert. You can find his SharePoint Blog at http://www.sharepointjoel.com and his travel blog at http://travelingepic.com. Follow him on twitter: @joeloleson

Just Blindbaek, MCT, justB, Denmark

Just Blindbaek is an Independent BI consultant with extensive experience in all phases of the BI development on Microsoft SQLServer 2005/2008/2012 and SharePoint 2010. He is a founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk). He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer at Orange Man.

Kevin Ells, KnowledgeLake, USA

Kevin is responsible for the KnowledgeLake's marketing and product marketing initiatives. Kevin has over 15 years of enterprise content management expertise, working with various software developers including KnowledgeLake, ImageSource, Kofax Image Product, Magellan/Gauss Enterprise and many others. He has been involved in the development of a number of Document Imaging products, including those for Multifunction devices (MFDs). His experience with content management has extended even as far as writing his own web content management system. Kevin regularly presents on the AIIM Seminar Series and dozens of conferences throughout the ECM industry.

Kim Forchhammer, Golder Associates, Sweden

Kim is a biologist with 35 years of experience working in environmental sciences, with a strong focus on information management during the last 15 years. Currently, Kim is involved in several large international projects and developments at Golder Associates, where he is founder of the Swedish information management group. With a broad understanding of environmental and earth science, Kim provides advice and solutions to information management challenges, having developed systems for everything from collection of field data and data storage to analysis and presentation. Last year, Kim won the Quest Software Build Better SharePoint Contest for his best use of Web Parts for SharePoint.

 

Lieven Iliano, U2U, Belgium

Lieven Iliano is partner at U2U (www.u2u.net), a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions based in Brussels, Belgium. Lieven works as a lead trainer and architect in .NET with a focus mainly on SharePoint. During the last 7 years, Lieven has trained thousands of developers and was involved in many SharePoint development projects as a software developer.

Ludovic Hauduc, Microsoft, USA

Ludovic Hauduc, General Manager, is responsible for product development and strategic direction of the Microsoft Project Business Unit and the Microsoft Office Developer Ecosystem. Ludovic started at Microsoft as an intern in 1993, and has been involved with the Microsoft Project team since 1994. Prior to his current role, he led the development team for Project Pro/Std, Project Server and Project Portfolio Server. Ludovic holds a BS in CS from ESIGELEC, an Electrical Engineering school based in France, and he currently lives in the Seattle area with his wife and teenage son and daughter.

Lukasz Grala, MVP, MCT, Freelancer, Poland

Architect and trainer, Lukasz specialises in building BI solutions using SQL Server and SharePoint. SQL Server MVP, MCT. Selected certificates: MCITP DEV|DBA|BI SQL Server 2008, MCITP DEV|DBA|BI SQL Server, MCITP SharePoint 2010, MCSA SQL Server 2008

Mai Omar Desouki, Infusion, United Arab Emirates

Mai Omar Desouki is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at Infusion (MCT, MCP, MCTS 2007 & 2010, MCPD, MCITP). She has been working with Microsoft Technology for several years, with the main focus on SharePoint. Her main SharePoint deployments have been for customers in Egypt & Middle East region. She also has done multiple migrations for enterprise customers from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Mai is focused on helping customers get the most business value from their SharePoint deployment through integrating SharePoint with other solutions such as Microsoft CRM Dynamics and others. Mai has won the MCC Microsoft Community Contributor Award for 2011.

Marco Heid, Campana & Schott, Germany

Marco Heid works as Managing Consultant at Campana & Schott, a consulting company and Microsoft Gold partner for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Project. Business process automation and business applications built upon the SharePoint technology platform are Marco's main consulting areas. He helps customers design, implement and operate modern and sustainable IT solutions. Marco has a profound knowledge especially in building business applications based on SharePoint and Duet Enterprise.

As a SharePoint professional Marco leads teams in national and international customer projects. Frequently he holds webinars to talk about innovative solution concepts realized for his customers. http://www.campana-schott.com/en/company/events

Mark Fidelman, Harmon.ie, USA

Mark Fidelman is a proponent of Social Business transformation, both internal and external. "Empower your employees and listen to your customers," he says, "and you'll quickly cut costs, increase revenue, and develop an innovation machine." His "take no prisoners" view makes him one of the most widely read bloggers in the Social Business space. Mark has deep experience in sales, marketing, and social media. He has led sales as a Section 16 Officer for a public company, and is well acquainted with how large Fortune 500 and small companies operate. Mark is known for his industry public speaking and keynote presentations. His work is frequently featured in the media, most recently in The New York Times, and as a columnist for 'Forbes'. Mark is also the author of 'SOCIALIZED! How the Most Successful Businesses Harness the Power of Social'.

Martina Grom, atwork information technology, Austria

Martina Grom works as an IT Consultant and is co-founder and CEO of atwork information technology. atwork is located in Austria/Europe and specialises in the development of Online Solutions. Martina founded atwork in 1999 and has worked in IT since 1995. Martina is recognised as an expert in Microsoft Office Online Services solutions and was one of the first 8 MVP's worldwide, awarded in 2011 for her expertise in Office 365. She writes numerous articles and blogs. Her expertise is related to online technologies and particularly Microsoft Online Services and Office 365. She helps companies in architecture planning toward cloud solutions, provides consulting and architectural planning of cloud projects and is one of the organisational heads of cloudusergroup.at.
She is Author of the German Book: Office 365 fuer kleine Unternehmen - a book focused on small Business Scenarios for Office 365.
You can follow her on Twitter (@magrom), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/martina.grom) or Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinagrom) or read her blogs at http://blog.atwork.at or http://cloudusergroup.at. atworks website is http://www.atwork.at/en.

Matt Berg, Microsoft, USA

Matt Berg is 12 year Microsoft veteran and has been working with SharePoint ever since. Matt began his career as a SharePoint administrator at Microsoft working on SharePoint Portal Server 1.0 and has since held positions in the Microsoft Office and SharePoint Product Management groups. Matt is currently an Office 365 Specialist and is based in the United States.  

Michael Greth, MVP, Sharepoint Community.de, Germany

Michael Greth is a well-known speaker, consultant and trainer for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies since 2001 - specialized in creating self-service solutions and helping customers to get more value out of their SharePoint implementation. He is the founder of the SharePointCommunity.de, Germany's largest SharePoint user community and Microsoft Most Value Professional (MVP) since 1998. He's co-author of the German SharePoint Designer 2007 handbook published by MSPress.

Michael Noel, MVP, CCO, USA

Michael Noel is an internationally recognised technology expert, bestselling author, and well-known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include 'SharePoint 2013 Unleashed', 'Exchange Server 2013 Unleashed', 'Windows Server 2012 Unleashed', 'ISA Server 2006 Unleashed', and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across all seven continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organisations realise business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

Michal Sobotkiewicz, ObjectConnect, Germany

Founder of ObjectConnect, a company that specialises in SharePoint consulting and development, Michal is a passionate SharePoint architect with 8 years' experience in this field. He helps clients around Europe to realise their SharePoint Projects on time and budget. He is also a co-founder of MetroFactory, a company that develops Windows 8 and WP8 applications. Besides SharePoint, Metro design is one of his favorite areas of excellence. In 2010, Michal founded 'PlanetSurface' - a restaurant in Poland where Microsoft Pixel Sense tables are used as tables with object recognition, multitouch applications and payment infrastructure.

Mike Fitzmaurice, Nintex, USA

Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex and is responsible for product direction, evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy. Until May 2008, he had spent more than 10 years at Microsoft, the majority of that time working on the SharePoint team in roles including developer evangelism, competitive strategy, enterprise consulting, user education, product marketing, and technical event planning. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters.

Mirjam van Olst, MCM MVP, Avanade, Netherlands

Mirjam van Olst works as a SharePoint Architect for Avanade in the Netherlands. She has been helping companies to implement SharePoint solutions since 2004. Mirjam is one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Mirjam is a co-organiser of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) and a regular author and editor for the popular DIWUG eMagazine. She also contributes to the SharePoint community by blogging at http://sharepointchick.com, writing articles and speaking at SharePoint events on a regular basis. Mirjam has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2010.

Nicki Borell, MCSE MCBA, Experts Inside, Germany

Nicki Borell (http://nbsharepointtalk.blogspot.com) is an evangelist and consultant in the Experts Inside team. He has worked for more than 9 years in Microsoft enterprise environments and also as a trainer and consultant for the SharePoint and SQL Server products. His expertise extends from technical consulting all the way to project management, with his core competencies covering KMU, enterprise environments and government data management. Nicki is Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Database Administrator (MCBA), IT Professional (MCITP) and Trainer (MCT).

Oliver Wirkus, BridgingIT GmbH, Germany

Oliver Wirkus is Senior Consultant at the IT consulting company Bridging IT GmbH in Mannheim/Germany. As a SharePoint expert and software architect he has long standing experience in conducting international projects. Customers from different industries like power suppliers, pharmaceutical and financial companies rely on his knowledge as a SharePoint expert. Oliver Wirkus has published several professional articles, is a renowned speaker at conferences and maintains the well known SharePoint blog (http://sharepointcommunity.de/blogs/owirkus).

Paolo Pialorsi, MCM, DevLeap, Italy

Paolo Pialorsi a consultant, trainer and author in the fields of software development, focused on web applications based on Microsoft SharePoint. He is a Microsoft Certified Master on SharePoint 2010.
He wrote four books, in English language, about LINQ and SharePoint 2010 published by Microsoft Press, as well as three more books about XML and .NET, in Italian language. He is now writing the SharePoint 2013 Developer Reference for Microsoft Press, as well as a couple of books about Windows 8 development.
Paolo is a regular speaker at IT conferences, webcast and boot camps, for Microsoft and others.

Paul Swider, MCT, RealActivity, USA

Paul J. Swider is the CTO of RealActivity, an organisation focused on improving collaboration, compliance and fiscal responsibility in healthcare. He has two decades of proven software and healthcare experience and is involved in many community and philanthropic efforts, including a founding member of Sharing the Point, an international effort which offers free training opportunities in emerging markets. Paul is an accomplished technology entrepreneur straight from a barrier Island near Charleston, SC where he occasionally gets to chase the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor.

Peter Kestenholz, Projectum, Denmark

Peter Charquero Kestenholz has worked with Microsoft Project Server and Project Portfolio Management disciplines for the last 10 years. Today he is CEO for the leading Danish Microsoft Project partner Projectum (www.projectum.me). Peter is a Microsoft Project MVP "Most Valuable Professional" and has worked with the latest 2013 version of Microsoft Project since the first bits was released in 2011.

Radi Atanassov, MCM MVP, OneBit Software, Bulgaria

Radi Atanassov is a professional SharePoint architect, a Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint 2010 and a die-hard 'fanatic' when it comes to SharePoint application development. With many years of development experience, Radi's background demonstrates strong ambitions to achieve the greatest quality, architecture, attention to detail and smooth processes when leading teams to create applications on top of SharePoint.

Radi is the founder and lead architect of OneBit Software, a SharePoint 'mercenary' company providing solution development to Microsoft partners and clients around the world. Radi is also an MCT, providing training in SharePoint across learning centers and universities. In his spare time he blogs, writes articles, plays guitar and leads the Web Platform User Group in Bulgaria.

Rafal Lukawiecki, Project Botticelli Ltd, Ireland

As Strategic Consultant at Project Botticelli Ltd (projectbotticelli.com), Rafal focuses on making advanced analytics easy, insightful, and actionable, helping clients achieve better organisational performance. Passing those skills to consulting companies, development teams, investors, and management boards is important to him. While he specialises in business intelligence and data mining, he is also known for his past work in information security and cryptography, enterprise architecture, and solution delivery. Rafal is a popular speaker at major IT conferences. He has travelled to 30-40 countries each year, for over fifteen years, even sharing keynote platforms with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. A natural educator, his ability to explain complex concepts in simplest terms, and his uniquely energetic speaking style should keep you engaged no matter how deep the subject might be. In his spare time, Rafal creates fine-art photography, which you can see on his personal web site, rafal.net.

Randy Williams, AvePoint, USA

With over 20 years of IT experience, Randy Williams is an expert in architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. Randy has worked with SMB and enterprise organisations throughout North America and Asia. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1996, Randy is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has delivered training to thousands of students across the globe. He is also active in the SharePoint community, running .NET and SharePoint user groups in Hawaii, Singapore and San Diego. Randy currently works for AvePoint as an Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist. At AvePoint, Randy works directly with enterprise customers and partners to deliver and implement solutions that help unleash Microsoft SharePoint's full business potential. He also shares proven practices with the SharePoint community and provides thought leadership through speaking engagements at global conferences.

A contributor to SharePointPro and Windows IT Pro magazines, Randy's latest book, 'SharePoint 2010 Administration Instant Reference', was released in June of 2011. He has a master's degree in Information Systems, along with a number of Microsoft certifications. Randy is a SharePoint MVP alum, having been awarded from 2009-2011 and is now working towards his MCM. He currently resides in San Diego, CA.

Sahil Malik, Winsmarts, USA

Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts.com, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past many years, author of more than 10 books and numerous articles in both the .NET and SharePoint space, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally. Sahil has trained for the best names in the Microsoft technology space and has architected and delivered SharePoint based solutions for extremely high profile clients. Sahil has been deeply involved in SharePoint 2013 and delivers SharePoint 2013 trainings around the world.

Sanna Pehkonen, Onsight Helsinki, Finland

Since 1999, Sanna has been working with Microsoft and web technologies as a trainer and consultant. These past years have been spent mostly with SharePoint products, from different perspectives: working closely with end users, project managers, ITPro personnel in administration, developers and also doing his own SharePoint development. Due to his history with web design and development, his speciality early on became the branding of SharePoint sites. Working with different companies and different projects has given him a good insight in different case scenarios and SharePoint usage cases.
Find me here: http://borderingdotnet.blogspot.fi/

Seb Matthews, Consultant, UK

A Solutions Architect with over 20 years' experience working with mid-tier and Enterprise organisations, Seb is currently providing consultancy services to businesses that are looking to utilise SharePoint in big-data scenarios, architecting information repositories, portals and business process management platforms. A frequent speaker at events and active member of the SharePoint community, when he is not SharePoint'ing, Seb enjoys the outdoors, fine wine and spending time with his wife and newborn son.

Sonja Madsen, Sonjasapps, Denmark

I'm an independent SharePoint developer and architect, building SharePoint intranets and websites for 9 years. I'm working with SharePoint 2103, since the SharePoint 2013 Ignite training in February 2012. I write well visited blog about SharePoint 2013 (sp2013.blogspot.com), and I founded SharePoint app brand, Sonjasapps. I already have 6 SharePoint apps in the Store. I was at the Jumpstart for Office and SharePoint apps in London, and I help the Microsoft team behind the Office store.

Spencar Harbar, MCM MVP, UK

Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over eighteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe's largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.

Spencer is one of only five people worldwide to hold the prestigious Microsoft Certified Architect for SharePoint 2010, and is one of 50 people worldwide to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010 certification. He is also a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007.

He is the content author and instructor for the Platform Security, Authentication & Authorization, Business Intelligence, User Profile Service, Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management modules of the SharePoint MCM. Spencer also works with Microsoft on delivering field readiness material and documentation for SharePoint Server.

Spencer is also a strong community advocate, supporting and speaking at the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums and public events such as the SharePoint Conference. He has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last 11 years.

Steve Overton, Webtrends, UK

Steve Overton has over 25 years experience in IT and Digital Marketing. Having worked client side, agency side and now for Webtrends, a Digital Intelligence company providing customer insight across social, mobile, internet and the enterprise. Steve has practical hands on experience in implementing digital measurement programmes and now advises clients on how to effectively measure and manage their digital marketing activity.

 

Thorbjorn Vaerp, Atea, Norway

Thorbjorn Varp is SharePoint Evangelist. He is Atea's premier spearhead within SharePoint. Varp has many years of experience in implementing and upgrading SharePoint - from version 2003 and 2007 and now SharePoint 2010. He both participates in and leads projects at national and international level. He is a renowned speaker at Atea Community, and breakfast seminars. Thorbjorn holds SP MCTS and Scrum Master Certification.

Thorsten Hans, MVP, Data One, Germany

Thorsten Hans is working as Teamlead .NET & SharePoint Development for Data One. His main focus is building enterprise applications using SharePoint and common .NET technologies. His further technical expertise includes JavasScript, DVC-Systems, MSBuild and dynamic programming languages like Ruby. For his technical expertise and community efforts, Thorsten Hans has been awarded the SharePoint MVP status in 2011 and 2012. Some of his thoughts can be found on his blog at http://www.dotnet-rocks.de or on his github profile at https://github.com/ThorstenHans.

Timo Heidschuster, Microsoft, Austria

Timo Heidschuster is Solution Architect at Microsoft Austria and work as a SharePoint expert on international projects. He is supporting companies in planning, migration and development of SharePoint projects. Before he joined Microsoft he worked for more than 10 years as an independent consultant in telecommunication and hosting scenarios. Timo was working with one of Microsoft early adaptors in a SharePoint 2013 search project.

Wouter van Vugt, MVP, Code Counsel, Netherlands

Wouter van Vugt is a SharePoint MVP, architect and trainer working with Fortune 500 companies in Europe. He is the co-author for various Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Early Adopters' Programs and has taught many developers, both Microsoft FTE and external in the finer points of SharePoint. In his spare time, he continues his developing life by maintaining CKSDEV, the one stop Visual Studio 2010 extension for SharePoint developers, as well as other tools used by the community at large.

Christoph Müller, bridgingIT GmbH, Germany

Christoph Müller is Business Unit Manager at the German IT consulting company, bridgingIT GmbH. He heads the bridgingIT Solutions portfolio and leads a unit of .NET and SharePoint experts in the Mannheim, Stuttgart, and Karlsruhe offices. During his 18 years in the IT industry, Christoph has been working on customer projects as an IT consultant, software developer, and architect. His expertise covers 10 years of .NET and SharePoint projects with various large corporate clients from different industries such as power supplies, health care, and automotive. Christoph currently focuses on projects creating value by connecting SharePoint to backend systems and business-critical processes and data and is part of the Business-Critical SharePoint partner program run by Microsoft.