Welcome to “The Microsoft Dynamics Top 100 Influential People 2009"

The following list was compiled by assessing:

1) How many people are affected in Microsoft Dynamics by their decisions?

2) How many people do they have regular contact with in the Microsoft Dynamics Community.

3) How long have they been involved in the Microsoft Dynamics Community?

4) How many certifications have they achieved?

5) How much positive feedback we got from our forums and voting.

1         

Preben Damgaard         

There can only be one person at number one and given his ability to turn Damgaard into a business that Microsoft valued at $1.2bn the father of AX he now continues to be a substantial investor in the ERP space in Denmark and he still has that midas touch.

2             

Kirill Tatarinov  

The man who runs the channel, his vision has seen Dynamics truly challenge SAP and Oracle and is turning Dynamics into a force on a global scale. He oversees the MBS business, with responsibility for sales and marketing, R&D and operations. MBS develops and markets the line of Microsoft Dynamics products that manage financial, customer relationship and supply chain management functions for organizations of all sizes His karaoke performances could see him on American Idol too.

3             

Doug Kennedy 

He joined Microsoft Corp. in March 2008 as vice president of the Microsoft Dynamics Partners team. In this role, Kennedy is responsible for managing the overall business relationship between Microsoft and Microsoft Dynamics partners. Before joining Microsoft, Kennedy worked for Oracle Corp. for 17 years, holding various positions within Alliances and Channels.

4              

Klaus Holse Andersen   

He was named area vice president of Western Europe and Microsoft corporate vice president in May 2009. Responsible for overseeing sales, management and operations across 14 countries in the region. Previously, he held the role of corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) sales and operations and general manager for Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Microsoft's largest development centre in Europe. He joined Microsoft in 2001 as the general manager for Microsoft Denmark. He was promoted to the position of EMEA vice president for Northern Europe in April 2003 and took on new responsibilities in November 2004 as EMEA vice president of MBS. In April 2005, Andersen took the position of vice president for the Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partner (SMS&P) Group.

5             

Mike Gillis          

Built Iteration2 to be important enough for Hitachi to purchase and start a new Microsoft Dynamics VAR. Now developed the Field Service Industry Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Formed the largest partner channel in North America, Latin America and Europe.

6             

Allison Watson 

Head of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft, leads a global team of 5,000 Microsoft employees and is responsible for Microsoft’s worldwide strategy for the more than 640,000 independently owned-and-operated partner companies. These companies resell and provide services based on Microsoft technologies for 43 million customers, ranging from the smallest entrepreneurs to the largest global enterprises. She leads strategy for and delivers cross-company commitment to Microsoft partners of all types, including independent software vendors, value-added resellers, resellers, distributors, and systems integrators serving business customers across all geographies and products. She 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.

7             

Jesper Balser    

Founded Navision in 1985 and served as the company's CEO for 18 years. During that time, Navison grew to become a leading worldwide ERP software provider for small and midsized businesses. Took Navision public in 1999 and continued to lead the company until it was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. After the acquisition he served as Head of Global Strategy at Microsoft Business Solutions. He continues to successfully invest in the ERP space in Europe.

8             

Adam Warby     

He joined Avanade at its inception in April, 2000, and as one of the founding members, was instrumental in building the company and shaping its culture. A senior leader, he has significant experience managing and growing Avanade’s business operations, having served as General Manager and Senior Vice President for the company’s North American and European operations during his tenure. As Executive Vice President, he has also led Avanade’s worldwide sales and marketing teams, and set the vision and direction for Avanade solutions. Creating the first partnership between Microsoft and Accenture he has created a true tier one ERP company.

9             

Thomas Olofsson            

Successfully built WM Data to be the highest valued Danish based Reseller buy out when Logica bought out WM Data, so valued in the community he was installed as the Group Practice Director for Logica and under his leadership Logica have become the first Microsoft Partner to install in 50 countries.

10          

Erik Ernst            

It is rumoured that he was the first Navision employee but not quite working with Navision (Dynamics NAV) since 1990 and have done practically everything there is to do, support, trainer, implementation consultant, project manager. Most well known for being the founder the Navision Online User Group (now DynamicsUser.Net It was started as a simple mailing list, originally just amongst friends, co-workers and ex-co-workers Now with over 30000 members and an extensive database of over 100000 questions and answers primary about Dynamics NAV/Navision, Dynamics AX/Axapta, Dynamics GP/Great Plains and Dynamics CRM.