From 2001 to 2005, he was managing director at Imtech Systems, then he joined Watermark as Chief Operating Officer. He was subsequently appointed to Qurius' Executive Board in late 2006 where he has overseen the growth of Qurius to over 1000 staff and nearly 3000 clients.
27 Henrik Kristiansen
He has been running Celenia Software since he founded the company in 1999. He has been able to create acompany that offers add-on products and development services within Microsoft Dynamics. The company is headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark and runs two development centres in the Ukraine. It is the Ukraine that has been responsible for the TAP programming for Microsoft Dynamics AX.
28 Steven Weaver
With Microsoft Dynamics NAV from 1999 until 2007 after helping establish XONITEK Systems (UK) Ltd, and with Microsoft Dynamics AX since joining Columbus IT in 2007. Now at the forefront of the Columbus IBM partnership
29 Torben Wind
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.
30 Erik Damgaard
From creating Danmax to building Damgaard and its sale to Microsoft he has been at the heart of the technology breakthrough in Denmark. His investment in the IT space over recent years has been heavily reduced but he has remained active investing in ERP and BI companies in Denmark.
31 Stephen Elop
President of the MicrosoftBusiness Division, he oversees the Information Worker, Microsoft BusinessSolutions, and Unified Communications Groups. This division is responsible forthe Microsoft Office system of programs, servers and software-based services,Microsoft Dynamics, business applications for small and midsize businesses,large organizations and divisions of global enterprises, and Microsoft UnifiedCommunications products that provide comprehensive software-based communicationtools to business. He joined Microsoft in January 2008 and is a member of thecompany’s senior leadership team that sets overall strategy and direction forMicrosoft. Before joining Microsoft, he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) forJuniper Networks.
32 Russell Smith
Previously Vice President of Products and Services with Redklay. Prior to joining RedKlay in 1998, he was a partner in the Peoplesoft practice at the Pinnacle Group, where he was responsible for business development and business operations. Now the Founder and CEO of Fullscope whofocus solely on Microsoft Dynamics AX enterprise manufacturing software.
33 Steven Ballmer
Chief Executive Officer ofMicrosoft. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, his leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. During the last 20 years, he has headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In July 1998, he was promoted to president, a role that gave him day-to-day responsibility for running Microsoft. He was named CEO in January 2000 assuming full management responsibility for the company. It is his talent for delegation and developing the people who work for him that means he is not higher up the list.
34 Brian Ocheltree
As CEO of Partnerpoint he is responsible for the largest and most active online community of Microsoft Partners Worldwide. This is backed up by his Linkedin group which is twice as popular as any other Microsoft Dynamics group. If you want to know how to network in Dynamics he can help you.
35 Anna Perotti
With a strong background in IBM environments she became the first to migrate clients from the IBM stack to the Navision stack. She then ran the newly formed Navision NSC and extended its field of expertise to Microsoft products. Working on Dynamics Nav both as a consultant and a developer she has quickly become a leading expert covering many areas of production.
36 Steve Guggenheimer
He is Corporate Vice Presidentof the OEM Division at Microsoft; he oversees worldwide sales, marketing, and licensing of pre-installed Windows operating systems on mobile and embedded devices, personal computers, and servers produced by OEMs and system builders. In this role, he is also responsible for the pre-installation of Microsoft applications on OEM produced hardware, and the relationship between Microsoft and the original device manufacturers that engineer, design, and build mobile and embedded devices, PCs, and servers for OEMs, as well as the relationships with device and telecommunication distributors his team are now responsible for 10% of leads generated to Dynamics.
37 Josep Pages
He has taken his professional experience and deep knowledge of business process applied to enterprise computer science (ERP, WorkFlow, B2B, BPM, BI) produced the popular DynamicsNAV Spanish language forum site tipsdbits.com
38 Jörg Stryk
An expert of MS Dynamics NAVsince 1997 within the areas Project Management, Consulting & Development.Since 2003 He has been writing books on the topic of "PerformanceOptimization & Troubleshooting", for NAV with SQL Server.
39 Matt Parks
The Global CRM Solutions Architect for Avanade and has been working with Dynamics CRM since the v1.0 Beta release. Prior to working with Dynamics CRM, he spent many years developing custom business applications for clients across Dynamics CRM and through the Microsoft CRM Newsgroups he is now one of the highest regarded CRM developer.
40 Michael Park
A software industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, including senior vice president of product marketing at SAP and GM at Siebel Systems, he brings a great deal of executive insight and depth to the Microsoft Board. Within the Microsoft North American Sales organization he is the Corporate Vice Presidentof US SMS&P. In this role he successfully leads a large team of sales, marketing, and partner management professionals responsible for serving over six million Microsoft’s business customers. He also brings with him extensive experience working with partners being responsible for Microsoft’svast US-based partner community which includes Microsoft Dynamics.
41 Jean-PhilippeCourtois
Leads global sales, marketingand services for Microsoft International, a territory that spans 100subsidiaries operating in over 240 countries outside the United States and Canada. As president of Microsoft International,he drives strategic planning, global operations and key growth initiatives indeveloped and emerging markets. His responsibilities also include Microsoft'sworldwide public sector and communication sector businesses, which deliverstrategic, high-value solutions to governments and telecommunications companiesaround the world.
42 Brad Wilson
General Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM he leads product management and marketing for Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) business. He is responsible for driving awareness, demand, and revenue on a worldwide basis. With more than 20years of engineering, marketing, and sales experience in the technology industry, including more than ten years in the enterprise business applications space. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked in senior management roles at large organizations including PeopleSoft and Hewlett-Packard as well as in venture-backed start-ups. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Florida, and an MBA from Emory University
43 Ahmed Rashed Amini
One of the leading developers within Navision, with involvement in every part of Nav implementation, from analysis gathering to post go live support. One of the key instigators of the new Webservice for NAV 2009
44 Errol Schoenfish
Director of Product Management for the Microsoft Dynamics GP product line and based in Fargo, ND USA. His 19 year career has been exclusively involved in the ERP software industry. He was the Director of Sales and Marketing for Microsoft Business Solutions Australasia, leading the MBS sales and marketing strategies for two years from 2001 to 2003. Prior to that he gained extensive experience with Great Plains in both the head office and within the Partner channel and was the Director of National and Global Accounts for Great Plains. He managed the sales of all national and global Partners including 20 high-end Partners who generated 25% of the global revenue for Great Plains. In his current position, he works with development to drive Microsoft Dynamics GP product strategy and cross Microsoft product collaboration.
45 Alain Krikilion
10 years of Navision experience in Belgium and Italy. He has a specialisation in solving performance issues on Navision and SQL-DB, and he has taken this technical expertise to his Nav blog Kriki's Dynamics.
46 Jurgen Beck
A consultant, trainer, authorand programmer. He was the first MVP for a Microsoft Business Solutions productin Europe, also a MBS Certified Master. Hisbooks have created a following of over 3000 for his website and blog.
47 Marie Huwe
Following a 6 year career withBorland she joined Microsoft where she ran the SQL Server Marketing team, and was responsible for the launch of SQL Server 2000. She is now the General Manager for the WW Partner Marketing team at Microsoft, including Global Business Leader for the Partner Strategy & Programs team around the world.
48 Kees Hertogh
A group manager for Microsoft Business Solutions, a Director with responsibility for product development. He leads the competitive strategy team, which focuses on developing and ensuring execution on competitive strategy against the business group’s main global competitors. Joined Navision a/s, which was later acquired by Microsoft Corp. He has been working in the Microsoft Business Solutions marketing strategy group as a group product manager on Project Green. Previously he was a product director on the management team at Microsoft Netherlands, responsible for local product strategy
49 Rene Gayer
Since 1998 he has been anexpert within Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This has led to the formation of his owncompany, MBS-TRAINING, which today is the prime partner for IT-companies inAustria and Switzerland, becoming ready in Microsoft Dynamics. Beside that heregularly delivers speeches as a Promoter and MVP about Microsoft and is theprime lecturer for Dynamics at various universities.
50 David Roys
An advocate of the importance of good methodologies and practices. With many years experience in XAL and Axapta he moved to New Zealand in 2002 to work as a consultant and has been at the forefront of the NAV revolution in New Zealand. He has a large following of readers for his blogwww.gaspodethewonderdog.blogspot.com.
51 Anders Spatzek
Since 1998 he has been a forcewithin Dynamics, starting in Navision in Africahe has since worked with a number of resellers before joining Microsoft.Firstly turning his talents to sales before moving into partner developmentwith responsibility for Microsoft's global ERP/CRM channel. Focus on channelexpansion/development including partner recruitment and enablement, partnerproductivity, profitability and loyalty. He has now taken on moreresponsibility for productivity, capacity and readiness of Microsoft's ERP andCRM partner channels.
52 Jeff Edwards
Director of channel strategy for Microsoft Business Solutions, with responsibility for global partner business agreements and models, partner communications and management, and long-term channel strategy. Previously he worked in technical strategy roles in both the office of the Chief Technology Officer and the Original Equipment Manufacturing Division at Microsoft. He also held various roles in Microsoft Dynamics including Director of ERP Product Marketing and Director of Industry Solutions.
53 Birgir Steen
Vice President of Small and Midsize Business & Distribution at Microsoft. From October 2004 to December 2008, he was General Manager and Vice President of Microsoft Russia. During his tenure as general manager, Microsoft operations in Russia grew tenfold in revenue, and the number of physical locations in the Russian Federation tripled to 34. He started his professional career in 1992 as an oil trader at Norwegian Oil Trading’s CIS office in Lithuania. He returned to Norway to join McKinsey & Company in 1993. In 1996, he left McKinsey to join Schibsted ASA, the European media group, as senior Vice President of business development. In March 2000 he was named CEO of Scandinavia Online AB, the leading Nordic Internet portal, which was listed on the Stockholmand Oslo stock exchanges later that year.
54 Jimmi Jakobsen
One of the few developers who has taken responsibility for increasing the maturity of the Dynamics products. With a 12 year development experience in AX, which has included the first development of AX within a major banking organisation, he is now at the forefront of the development of AX products as add-ons.
55 Kevin Hall
As the CEO of eBECS he has beenresponsible for providing customers across manufacturing, distribution and theextended supply chain with expertise on how they can utilise Lean and Agilesolutions to reduce waste, increase response times and maximise value to theircustomers. He has now ensured that eBECS are the global leaders in LeanManufacturing in the ERP space.
56 Michael McCarthy
He brings a customer-centric strategic vision to his role as Chief Executive Officer of ePartners, based on twenty years of high-tech management experience ePartners has established itself as the largest global Microsoft Business Solutions consultancies in the world. From aligning their clients’ business and IT strategies to improving business processes and deploying and supporting solutions that accelerate results, no other Microsoft Business Solutions partner offers more comprehensive solutions and services than ePartners. Last year alone more than 300 leading companies spanning 45 industries, used ePartners.
57 Konstantin Kulvinov
The AX expert in Russia with a vast experience of development across AX , XAL and X++ his major contribution has been to assist new users and those cross training into Dynamics with the best selling training programming and books for Dynamics AX.
58 Christian Lindberg
Responsible for Microsoft Dynamics ISV Sales & Marketing worldwide and the owner of the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD) program. He has over 18 years of experience with business solution software working with customers and partners in various positions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christian worked at Navision/Damgaard in Denmark and Germany.The business was acquired by Microsoft and became part of Microsoft Business Solutions.
59 Dick Wenning
Responsible for Dutch Localization (DIS Layer) and support for the Dutch Partners. This support was technical Training in AX Programming, installation and second line support for service-calls addressed to Navision Netherlands. In 2003, when Navision became part of Microsoft, he was then a member of the Global Localization Team and was responsible for Denmark, France, U.K. and Netherlands. He also found time to build the largest user forum in the Dutch community.
60 Toni Savage
Previously President of TS Systems Inc. which she founded in 1982 one of the first and largest Value Added Resellers of Solomon Software in the USA. She joined Queue bringing over 18 years of experience in microcomputer accounting systems installation, training and customer service. She is a frequent contributor to industry publications and has authored articles for SmartReseller magazine and PlanetIT.com
