Corley has more than 25 years of experience in high technology, including software, consulting and startup worlds as well as in global leaders KPMG and Microsoft. He was named CEO of CWR Mobility BV in 2010 and has end-to-end responsibility for the entire business. Mark Corley was a General Manager in Microsoft’s Business Solutions division for seven years. During this time, he was responsible for a several areas of the business including global marketing, managing the worldwide subsidiaries, setting Dynamics channel strategy, growing the annuity businesses, and building Microsoft’s global Software + Service business for Dynamics CRM. Previously, he drove a 3-year change effort to integrate the stand-alone division into the rest of Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Corley worked for KPMG Consulting Inc. In 2000 he was named managing director in the high-tech practice and lead partner for the Microsoft account where he oversaw all consulting services provided to Microsoft. Corley moved to KPMG Consulting after five years as CEO of Los Angeles-based Select One, where he built and managed an alliance of IT-consulting firms. He previously spent eight years as president of Software Creations, a full-service IT-consulting firm. Mark Corley holds a master of business administration degree from the University of Southern California and a BSc in International Management and Finance from Georgetown University. He has lived in Spain and Japan and speaks Spanish and some Japanese.

Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions (www.ifacto.be). With his 10 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development team. As development manager he continually acts upon iFacto’s technical readiness and guarantees that he and iFacto are always on top of the latest Microsoft Dynamics NAV developments. Apart from that, Eric is also very active in Microsoft Dynamics NAV community-life where he tries to solve technical issues and thrives to share his knowledge with other Dynamics NAV enthusiasts. Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric’s posts on Mibuso.com, Dynamicsusers.net or his own blog (www.waldo.be), which he invariably signs with “waldo”. A few years ago, he co-founded the Belgian Dynamics Community, a platform for all Belgian Dynamics NAV users, consultants and partners, enabling knowledge sharing and networking. His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).

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.

Leen Zevenbergen’s background illustrates his extensive entrepreneurial skills as well as his strong management qualities. Starting as an accountant with degrees in business economics (1983) and accountancy (1984) from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Mr. Zevenbergen (1958) became an entrepreneur early in his career. He founded many companies, including Bolesian Systems in 1985 and Escador in 2000. In between, he fulfilled management and director’s positions at Roccade and Origin. In 2006, he published “En nu laat ik mijn baard staan” (And now I’ll grow a beard), which became management book of the year, and Mr. Zevenbergen became a well-known speaker and coach. In 2009 he published “ ‘t Is Groen en Groener wordt het niet”. He was appointed as CEO of Qurius NV at the Annual General Meeting of 29 April 2010.

Erik is pioneer in the Dynamics world with 19 years of heavy duty Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) experience in basically all areas (support, training, consultant, implementation, sales, development, project management) obtained via work in Denmark and the USA for various resellers and end users,. 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 49,000 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.

Despite having very recently retired from the day to day running of Columbus, in April 2011, 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 made sure that Columbus had the best track record in the industry, with over 5,000 successful implementations in 101 countries.

Klaus Holse Andersen was named area vice president of Western Europe and Microsoft corporate vice president in May 2009. In this role, Andersen is 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. Andersen 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. Before joining Microsoft, Andersen was the chief executive officer of Internet Ventures Scandinavia, one of Denmark’s most successful venture companies. He is presently active on the boards of a number of smaller IT companies and industry associations in Denmark. He is also a very capable marathon runner and loves skiing.

Jesper 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. Jesper took Navision public in 1999 and continued to lead the company until it was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Jesper was responsible for continuing the Danish and European importance having seen more than 86% of revenues in Navision coming from Europe, Jesper made sure that the Vedbaek complex remain at the heart of the newly formed Microsoft Business Solutions, ensuring the European influence on Microsoft Dynamics to this day. After the acquisition he served as Head of Global Strategy at Microsoft Business Solutions before finally cutting direct ties with Microsoft. He continues to successfully invest in the ERP space in Europe.

From 2003-2011 President & CEO, Damgaard Company A/S. The Company acts as a business angle, actively investing in selected companies that have a proven business model, leading-edge technology, and are ready to scale the business and expand either geographically or to new business areas. By October 8, 1999 Damgaard A/S was successfully listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen. The IPO was lead managed by Goldman Sachs International and co-lead managed by Enskilda Securities and Nykredit Markets. The size of the offering, including the green shoe, was 3,450,000 shares, offered at a price of DKK 320. The offering was subscribed more than 16 times. The founders of the company, Erik and Preben Damgaard, still own the majority of the shares in Damgaard A/S. Damgaard A/S was represented in 11 countries with own subsidiaries and distribution in 29 countries worldwide. November 2000, Damgaard and Navision Software announced a merger of the two companies. Both companies were listed on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen. By merging the two companies and creating Navision a/s, the company became a leading global provider of end-to-end e-commerce and collaborative business solutions to medium-sized companies. 2000-2002 CEO of Navision a/s – Successfully merged Damgaard A/S and Navision Software A/S – forming a new company, Navision A/S. At the time of the merger, Navision had a presence in 35 countries and more than 1,300 employees. 2002 Successful sale of Navision to Microsoft Corp.

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.