The Top 100 recognises the individuals who
contribute the most to the Microsoft Dynamics channel.
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Erik Ernst
Erik
is pioneer in the Dynamics world and has been working Navision since
1990. Over the years he has done practically everything there is to do,
support, training, implementations, project management and sales, but
mostly development. Erik was the first to be awarded MVP for Navision
in 2004, and his passion for the product and the community shines
through in all that he does. Erik is best known for being the founder
the Navision Online User Group (now Dynamics User Group or
dynamicsuser.net) it was started as a simple mailing list in 1995 with a
few recipients, but now has over 44,000 members and an extensive
database of over 100,000 questions and answers primary about Dynamics
NAV, Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP and Dynamics CRM. When he’s not working
for the community, then he is doing freelance assignments and working on
his new company Dynamics Experts, which is a mix between a partner, a
recruiter and a freelance network.
2009 Position 10
12
Claus Hansen
Claus
is a man with a solid track record in management in the IT industry and
the original founder of Aston Group, one of the largest and fastest
growing global Microsoft solution providers until the company was sold
to Tectura. Now CEO of Columbus he has been responsible for overseeing
the largest number of global implementations of Microsoft Dynamics.
Claus has developed Columbus so that it is now operating in 30
countries, with over 1100 employees, providing 6,000 customer hours
every day, and have implemented Microsoft Business Solutions for over 19
years. Claus has made sure that Columbus have the best track record in
the industry, with over 5,000 successful implementations in 101
countries.
2009 Position 13
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Jorg Stryk
Jorg
is an expert of MS Dynamics NAV and has been since 1997 within the
areas Project Management, Consulting &
Development. Since 2003 He has been writing books on the topic of
Performance Optimization &
Troubleshooting, The NAV/SQL Performance Toolbox and The NAV/SQL
Performance Field Guide, for NAV with SQL Server. Jorg from Germany who
runs his own company STRYK System Improvement supporting NAV customers & partners worldwide. As well as
finding to time to publish The NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide and
blogging at http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/stryk/ Since 2006 Jorg has
been supporting Dynamics customers and partners within their NAV
projects as a freelancer.
2009 Position 38
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Frank Lee
Frank
is the President of Workopia Inc a premier Microsoft Dynamics CRM
certified specialist for small and medium size businesses across
America, Workopia began in 2003 and has grown to be the preeminent
Dynamics CRM practice. Frank has been actively involved with Microsoft
CRM implementations since v1.0 beta (2002). He has consistently achieved
the MVP for Microsoft Dynamics, and his ability to customise not only
small CRM solutions but the larger implementations comes from his
previous Siebel experience. He is widely renowned in the channel as a
speaker and his convergence talks are the most blogged in the CRM space.
2009 Position 20
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Poul Kjaer
Poul
is the founder and CEO of Partner Power, he is the public face of the
company and responsible for developing the overall company strategy. He
joined Navision A/S in 1997 as Area Manager with responsibility for the
development of subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe, and was
responsible for establishing new subsidiaries in Europe, Eastern Europe
and the Far East. His networking skills are responsible for the
development of Partner Power, creating the largest single network of
companies capable of delivering Microsoft Dynamics.
2009
Position 21
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Matt Wittemann
Matt
is the CRM Practice Director at C5 Insight, a CRM and SharePoint
consultancy based in North Carolina, USA. A five-time MVP award
recipient, he has been working with Microsoft CRM since it was first
released. He has architected and deployed numerous CRM implementations,
including one that received a national award from Microsoft. He is a
frequent speaker, writer and contributor to the CRM newsgroups and user
community. He is currently hard at work writing a comprehensive
reference book for the next version of CRM. He blogs at
http://icu-mscrm.blogspot.com.
2009 Position 22
17
Brian Ocheltree
Brian
founded e.magination in 1992, a Maryland based application development
firm. As e.maginations CEO, Brian lead the firm to becoming a Microsoft
Gold Certified partner, and a Managed Microsoft Partner in both the
commercial and public sector verticals with a staff of over 110 full
time professionals. In August, 2004, Brian sold e.magination and began
work on PartnerPoint, which was launched April of 2005. PartnerPoint
quickly became the largest community of Microsoft Partners worldwide
with over 15,000 active members, and provides portal and community
services to Microsoft and its partner community. Brian is also a Partner
in the venture backed startup DoublePositive (www.DoublePositive.com),
which is the market leader for LIVE Hot Transfers.
2009
Position 34
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Timo Lasser
Timo
is a Dynamics NAV expert who has built his reputation for being highly
technically skilled through his vast experienced gained by using every
version of NAV since 2.0. Timo has also been able to boost the community
and he achieved this in 2004, when he founded the German speaking
Microsoft Dynamics Community MSDynamics.de. The forum has grown into one
of the most important and largest German speaking communities. It is
respected by those in the NAV community with many people choosing to
place links to MSDynamics.de even though their website is English only.
Timo is also behind the annual MSDynamics.de meeting, which gives those
members a chance to meet and network and push forward NAV agendas.
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Allison Watson
Allison
is head of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft, she leads a global
team of 5,000 Microsoft employees and is responsible for Microsoft's
worldwide strategy for the more than 640,000 independent partner
companies. These companies resell and provide services on Microsoft
technologies for 43 million customers, ranging from the smallest
entrepreneurs to the largest global enterprises. Allison leads strategy
for and delivers cross-company commitment to Microsoft's partners of all
types, including independent software vendors, value-added resellers,
resellers, distributors and systems integrators serving business
customers across all geographies and products. Allison has been
instrumental in establishing world-class channel leadership for
Microsoft. During the past four years, she led the launch of the
Microsoft Partner Program and secured an increased investment in the
channel, doubling the overall commitment to over US$2 billion annually,
aligning Microsoft's partner strategy more closely to the business
interests of its partners, and translating that strategy into practical
program elements that promote partner success in the marketplace.
2009 Position 6
20
Luc Van Dyck
Luc
has always been at the forefront of the Navision Community, since he
owned shares in the initial public offering of Navision and the
registering of the domain "myNavision.net". A forum was added, the download
pages got created as well as the Business Directory. At that time,
visitor stats showed 150 visitors per day. In 2002 Microsoft bought
Navision and the Navision ERP program is now part of the division
Microsoft Business Solutions. In July 2002, the domain "mibuso.com"
was registered and the community site has grown from strength to
strength. Luc is responsible for the development &
maintenance of the site. Since 1997, Luc has been a Navision technical
consultant and he has excelled at working with every version of Nav
since the first version Navision Financials 1.10. In October 2004, Luc
received his first of many MVP awards from Microsoft, for his many
contributions to the Navision community.
2009
Position 25
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