The Top 100 recognises the individuals who
contribute the most to the Microsoft Dynamics channel.
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Leen Zevenbergen
Leen
is the new group CEO for Qurius and as such Qurius is in good hands
with this serial CEO having been CEO of at least 15 organisations as
diverse at Made in Scotland and the impressively successful marketing
company Escador Holdings. Leen has already changed the focus of Qurius
and set out the expectations to be have an agile, flat organizational
structure, with short links to the market and employees. Leen is very
hands on and has taken direct responsibility for the country managers,.
which means that the link between strategy and operation will be
guaranteed. Qurius the Netherlands has developed into a dominant and
profitable Microsoft partner within the Dutch market. Under Leen Qurius
is now in position to move forward and become a dominant force in the
European market. Leen
formed a team
of around 25 leaders of the
international operations, and together they
launched the new Qurius
vision, in which they openly declared a target
of 100
per cent
sustainability by 2014. A bold objective, designed to drive the
company
to European leadership in the field of sustainable ICT.
NEW ENTRY
22
Henrik Kristiansen
Henrik
founded Celenia Software and is still majority shareholder. Celenia had
its origins in the company Hotcom Informatik, which was established by
Henrik Kristiansen in 1990. Hotcom Informatik developed and sold
solutions for Navision. In 1999, the R&D
department was spun off to form Celenia Software. In 2000, Henrik
Kristiansen sold Hotcom Informatik in order to focus on Celenia. In
2001, Celenia established a development center in Kiev, Ukraine, and in
2008, a new development center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The
development centers handle Celenia’s Add-on Products and Partner
Services projects as well as development projects for Microsoft. The
centers employ highly skilled programmers, systems designers and other
IT professionals, who work with design and development of software,
specialist testing, and documentation for both professionals and users.
Celenia has achieved a unique level of experience in software
development in Ukraine and Vietnam, and collaboration between the
offices is close and efficient. In 2007, Henrik Kristiansen transferred
day-to-day management of Celenia Software in order to dedicate his time
to the strategic development of the company.
2009
Position 27
23
Torben Wind
Torben
Co-founded Navision in 1984 and was director of product development
until the merger with Damgaard and the following acquisition by
Microsoft in 2002. He managed numerous development cycles of PCPlus and
Navigator/Navision. He then took part in the design of next generation
ERP (Microsoft Dynamics) as a software architect at Microsoft
Development Centre Copenhagen. He is now an investor in NorthCap
Partners who invest in Danish ERP companies.
2009
Position 29
24
Brandon George
Brandon
is a Senior Technical Architect with Sunrise Technologies with hands-on
implementation and customization experience in Software Development,
Database Design, SQL Server, BizTalk, SOA and now Cloud Computing with
Azure and .Net 4.0. He has extensive experience in information systems
including X++ programming, systems analysis, systems design,
configuration, and project deployment. A diverse background in
information and business systems gives him a great capacity to interact
with people from various business areas and levels. He has outstanding
analytical, problem solving, and communication skills as well as proven
ability to help people understand complex issues. Brandon is also
responsible for one of the most widely read and highly respected blogs
http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/ which covers all kinds of topics for
Dynamics AX from the Technical, to news, new releases, interviews, etc.
Some of this latest topics, are focused around Dynamics AX future,
including cloud computing, for which his work has been syndicated and
highlighted on the official Microsoft Dynamics Community Site:
http://community.dynamics.com/ax/ He is also a devoted husband to his
wife Amy, and has two daughters Emily and Natalie all of them make their
home in the U.S, in the Northeast Alabama region. Brandon is also a
noted huge Alabama Football fan!
2009 Position 84
25
Mogens Elsberg
Mogens
is now the CEO of GN Netcom and is a part of GN Store Nord's
Executive
Management. He has been brought on to lead the restructuring initiative
and start focusing on growing the company. Mogens experience dates back
to 1979 where Mogens held positions of increasing responsibilities
within IBM Global Services through until 2000 at which point he left to
become the CEO of Aston Business Solutions where he restructured the
company and restored profitability. After leaving in late 2004 he was
then able to join Microsoft where had held global responsibility for
business applications and P/L responsibility with revenues of about USD 1
billion. In his career he has been able to inspire those who work for
him through his ability to grasp the technical developments necessary to
propel businesses.
NEW ENTRY
26
Mark Brummel
Mark
is an all-round Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist. He started in 1997
as an end user but quickly moved to the other side of the table. During
ten years he has worked for resellers where designing and maintaining
add-on systems was his specialization. Some of these add-on systems
exceed the standard product where it comes to size and complexity. Also
coaching colleagues and troubleshooting ‘impossible' problems where
passion is part of day-to-day work. Mark has trained most of the
experienced NAV developers for the NAV 2009 product in The Netherlands
and Belgium. Today he is working freelance, is hired by almost every NAV
reseller in the Benelux area and also frequently asked to help out in
escalated implementations by end users. Mark was the first world wide to
use the NAV 2009 (CTP3) product in a production system feeding back
valuable information to Microsoft. Since 2007 he is involved in the
development of the ‘SQL Perform Tools'. Mark maintains his blog on
www.brummelds.com. This blog contains a wide range of articles about
both the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server product. He is also a
frequent speaker at Microsoft events. In 2006 Mark was rewarded by
Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution
to the online and offline communities. In 2007 he also reviewed
Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
2009 Position 23
27
Simon Bright
Simon
has held senior positions with some of New Zealand’s premiere
companies. As a Partner with Ernst &
Young Simon made a calculated decision to get behind the introduction
of Navision (now Microsoft Dynamics NAV) into the New Zealand
marketplace and subsequently built a very successful team delivering
projects across the length and breadth of the country. More recently,
Simon was a Director with CGNZ Middle Market Solutions, a leading
provider of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, AX and CRM solutions before this
business was purchased by Hewlett Packard. At HP Simon was responsible
for driving the Microsoft Services business in New Zealand. As Chief
Operating Officer at Intergen, Simon is responsible for the quality of
the overall solution. Simon is also Intergen's Microsoft Dynamics
Practice Principal, responsible for the stewardship of Intergen's
50-strong team of Microsoft Dynamics professionals providing services
around Dynamics NAV, Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM. Simon’s 15 year
association with the Dynamics solutions have given him the opportunity
to work with more than 150 dynamics customers in New Zealand and
Australia. Simon is a member of the ANZ and Asia Pacific Partner
Advisory Boards.
NEW ENTRY
28
Mark Polino
Mark
hails from Florida where he is one of the leading exponents of Dynamics
GP and maintains the http://DynamicAccounting.net/ blog. Mark is a
respected Microsoft MVP for Dynamics GP and a Principal Consultant with
I.B.I.S.Inc. Prior to his work with I.B.I.S. he was the Chief Financial
Officer for Transit Television Network; he has been working with
Dynamics GP and its predecessors since 1999. He is a Florida licensed
CPA and holds an MBA from Rollins College. Mark has engaged in a number
of entertaining and informative speeches not least the incredible 50
tips in 50 minutes, which results in a breathless romp around Dynamics
GP. He is the author of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook, due out in
August of 2010. which is sure to become a enduring GP classic.
2009 Position 63
29
Frank Ziccarelli
Frank
was one of the leading lights Solomon Users Group and active in many of
the early meetings, and it was through his drive that the group has
since become the Dynamics Users Group SL. Frank worked for many years as
the President of the group setting a wonderful precedent for officer
work ethic and laying the foundation of the group for years to come. His
contributions as an officer, a promoter, an organizer and a content
provider are a direct reflection of his can do attitude and
professionalism. Frank has been able to combine his work in the wider
Dynamics SL community by using his considerable technical abilities to
elevate him to a management position within Telgian
NEW ENTRY
30
Axel Kuhn
Axel
is one of the leading Dynamics AX professionals in Germany and he has
been involved in many of the development demonstrations including
Dynamics Technical Airlift in Munich. As in the past year, the event was
targeted at the more technical people (consultants / developers) from
the Dynamics partner community (Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV and Dynamics
CRM). Axel was allowed to participate again this year as ATE (Ask the
Expert) in this event and including me set in its own session, along
with other experts, Axel is one of the German Dynamics AX developers who
have resisted the temptation to fall in to the arms of SAP. Axel has
achieved the MVP award for the last years. He has been a regular
contributor to the GLS layer for Germany and is involved in some of the
largest AX implementations; his blog blog.ak-home.net regularly has a
readership of over 3000 AX developers and consultants.
2009 Position 62
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