The Top 100 recognises the individuals who
contribute the most to the Microsoft Dynamics channel.
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Kamil Sacek
Kamil
has been involved with NAV since 2001 and his technical ability has
seen him shine, and has led to him being involved in some of the most
high profile implementations in the Czech Republic. Kamil has had his
technical reputation enhanced by his ability to maintain his MVP status
since he was first awarded it in 2005 and in doing so became the first
person from the Czech Republic to be recognised for NAV. Not only is
Kamil a skilled developer he is also a respected author around the NAV
subject and is the inspiration behind the well read blog
http://msmvps.com/blogs/kine/ Kamil is currently the lead software
developer with the impressive VAR NAVERTICA
NEW ENTRY
62
Per Mogensen
Per
was Navision employee number 27. Per is the founder of Mergetool.com
and the lead developer of the Mergetool product. He holds a Master of
Science degree from the Technical University of Denmark In 1992, Per
began working for PC&C A/S, which
later became the Danish enterprise software company Navision A/S in
Denmark. One of Per’s early assignments was to develop the
character-based version of the Navision application. He was also
responsible for localization and release of the software for five
countries in Europe. Per was later responsible for developing VAT/TAX
and distribution functionality and many other features included in
Navision Financials 1.1 and later. After leaving Navision, Per worked for
ExpandIT Solutions developing web-application and add-on products for
Navision and Axapta. For 10 years, he was the Development Manager for
Lanham Associates with responsibility for maintaining high quality and
continued improvements of the products.
NEW ENTRY
63
Christian Lindberg
Christian
has been a stalwart of the Navision and Dynamics NAV technical
competencies for as long as the products have been in existence,
Christian is currently driving the CfMD (Certified for Microsoft
Dynamics) programme for ISVs. Christian is responsible for defining how
to achieve it and what are the benefits to ISVs and Customers, and
responsible for Microsoft Dynamics ISV Sales and 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.
2009 Position 58
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Kees Hertogh
Kees
is regarded as one of the mist inspiring managers within Microsoft and
his career in Microsoft has spanned over 10 years since his position as
Product Director at Navision Software in 1999 in which he was able to
increase the take up of Navision with a number of new verticals coming
on stream at this time. He has since moved through Microsoft where he
has been the Competitive Strategy Director and is now back to his
previous title of Product Director, but now in a slightly larger channel
which Kees has taken over in 2007 and since then has seen the technical
advancements in Dynamics and is now beginning to bring the different
elements of Dynamics together.
2009 Position 48
65
Erik Damgaard
Erik
founded with his brother Preben, Damgaard Data, which later became
Navision. Erik was instrumental in the success of Damgaard Data and its
subsequent merger with Navision and its future sale to Microsoft in
2002. Following the sale Erik worked until 2004 at Microsoft in Seattle,
USA. He has since been CEO of Greentech and member of Capinordic board,
but in 2008 he stepped out of the boards. 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. Erik has the ability to
combine a colourful high profile personal image with his ability to
drive successful ERP organisations.
2009 Position 30
66
Stephen Elop
Stephen
is the President of the Microsoft Business Division, and oversees the
Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions and Unified
Communications Groups. This division is responsible for the 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's Unified Communications, products that provide complete
software-based communications tools to business. Stephen joined
Microsoft in January, 2008 and is a member of the company's senior
leadership team that sets overall strategy and direction for Microsoft.
Before joining Microsoft, Stephen was Chief Operating Officer for
Juniper Networks, a leading provider of high-performance network
infrastructure and a valued Microsoft partner. As COO, Stephen was
responsible for all the company's product groups, corporate development,
global sales and service and marketing and manufacturing organizations.
2009
Position 31
67
Dick Wenning
Dick
is the extremely valued author behind the widely read
http://axstart.spaces.live.com as well as running the blog, Dick is also
currently helping to build the growing reputation of Crimsonwing
Promentem in the Netherlands. Dick works with Dynamics AX in any way,
and his technical ability has seen him collect the MCT, MVP and MCP
awards. As a trainer, Dick is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic to
share this knowledge with his students. In addition, Dick does also have
knowledge of Dynamics related Microsoft products which makes him one of
the few Dynamics AX trainers who are able to overlook the combination
of Dynamics AX, SQLServer and the hardware it runs on.
2009
Position 59
68
Guobjartur Pall Guobjartsson
Guobjartur
is one of those NAV experts from the community to have achieved such a
following that he has gained his own nickname and that is very apt NAV
magician. This in no small part is from his previous career which saw
Guobjartur become the Co-founder of Navision UK, as well as the founder
of Navision IS. The reputation that he garnered for himself in these
start ups has made him an enduring member of the Nav crowd and it was
his drive that helped create the success that NAV has gone on to be in
these markets. Guobjartur was then founder of Landsteinar one of the
most successful Dynamics NAV VARs in Europe. Guobjartur then went on to
become the TEC-brain behind LS Retail which is the standard bearer for
implementations of retail in the Dynamics channel.
NEW ENTRY
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Birger Steen
Birger
has been the General Director of the Microsoft Rus LLC since August of
2004 and heads the Board of Directors of Microsoft’s Russian office. In
this position Birgir is a key member of the Central and East European
region and has been influential in the delivery of the success of the
region. Birger has come to Moscow from Oslo, where he held the position
of Chief Executive Officer of the Microsoft office in Norway for two
years. Before joining Microsoft in 2002, he acquired a great deal of
management experience working in key post at various firms in Sweden and
Norway. Prior to March of 2002, Birger was the first vice-president at
the Eniro AB. From March of 2000 through January of 2002.
2009
Position 53
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Jimmi Jakobsen
Jimmi
is one of the founders of the partner accelerator Cimbax. Jimmi is one
of the few developers to have taken responsibility for increasing the
maturity of the Dynamics products. With a 12 year development history in
Dynamics 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. Jimmi was previously responsible
for building up the MBS business for Ementor Denmark. Jimmi made this
business EMEA certified in Axapta and through this made very interesting
contracts both public and government. Jimmi is now responsible for the
product development of Doktool, which is reinventing how documentation
is provided in the Microsoft Dynamics community
2009 Position 54
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