Christian is the Brand Alliance Director at AvePoint, the largest data management provider for Microsoft 365, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

An award-winning product marketer, technology evangelist and host of the #CollabTalk podcast and monthly tweetjam series, Christian’s almost 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for several leading SharePoint ISVs, and he was part of the Microsoft team that launched the hosted SharePoint platform in Office 365. He has worked with some of the world’s largest technology companies to build and deploy social, collaboration, and supply chain solutions, and sold his first software startup to Rational Software in 2001.

Co-author of books on both SharePoint and software configuration management (SCM), Christian is one of the most widely published names within the Microsoft ecosystem, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and @buckleyplanet