Sandeep is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of IGNIFY – a 300 person ERP, CRM and eCommerce software and solutions company with offices in USA, Canada, Philippines and India. Sandeep has lead Ignify since 2000 and has been successful in driving strong performance consistently. Ignify has been ranked as the fastest growing firm four years in a row between 2007 to 2010 by Deloitte and Inc 500 and Entrepreneur Magazine. Ignify’s flagship eCommerce product is used by over 200 customers to power their web stores including the Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys, and McDonalds. Ignify specializes in solutions to Retail, Distribution, Chemicals, Maritime, and Financial Services organizations. Sandeep previously worked in the ERP and CRM practices at Deloitte Consulting. Prior to that Sandeep worked on developing cost management systems with Philip Morris in Switzerland. While at business school, Sandeep completed his internship with KPMG. Sandeep is the Southern California Chair of the Retail Special Interest Group of TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs – one of the largest entrepreneurship organizations in the world. Sandeep holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration. Sandeep has lectured as visiting faculty at UC Irvine. Sandeep lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in support charities that promote primary school education and remedial education across the world. NEW ENTRY

John Kleb, CPA, is a partner at Sikich LLP and heads up the Microsoft Dynamics NAV practice. John has been enmeshed in the world of finance since hanging out his shingle as a accounting consultant in 1983. This was a tremendous professional challenge and greatly rewarding. Working side-by-side with clients, John found his niche in providing clients’ consultation on both financial and strategic areas. It was during this time that John became a certified Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution provider (at that time called Navision). Early on John recognized this product as a strong, comprehensive business solution that he could offer to his clients to streamline all facets of their business. In 1996, John merged his practice into Sikich LLP. Bringing his 28 years of experience to the firm, he and his team of accountants and Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialists, was now able to extend their reach to a wider-client base and expand upon his service offerings. Over the years John has grown Sikich’s Microsoft Dynamics NAV practice to become one of the premier Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners in the world and also serves on the board of directors of Partner Power International. John continues to show his enthusiasm and dedication for his practice and to Microsoft Dynamics as a whole. John was a co-founder of the highly successful partner-led Dynamics conference series, Directions. He has numerous roles within the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem and can often be found evangelizing to both partners and Microsoft alike. NEW ENTRY

Girish Raja is a Technical Evangelist for Dynamics CRM at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. In this role, Girish helps the community to learn the development features of CRM and specifically helps ISVs in building line of business applications using the xRM framework that underpins CRM. He also works on demonstrating how CRM integrates well with other Microsoft technologies through his blog and various channel9 videos. His http://blogs.msdn.com/b/girishr/ blog is bringing the thoughts of Redmond to the masses and is bringing with it a wide ranging following. NEW ENTRY

Mohammed is one of the most experienced and qualified Dynamics AX developers who has brought his live experiences to the wider community through blogs and forums. Mohammed is one of the most recognized bloggers on Dynamics AX – www.dynamic-ax.co.uk as well as being one of the Two Awarded, Dynamics AX Specialists from the UK. https://community.dynamics.com/content/relatedcommunities.aspx#EGE and being ranked amongst the Top 10 most contributing consultants on the Dynamics AX Community https://community.dynamics.com/members/MohammedRasheed.aspx Mohammed is able to bring to all of these his in-depth knowledge of the Dynamics AX Architecture both Object and Data Structure, along with AIF and Business Connectors. This makes him unique in the European market with AX. NEW ENTRY

Jorg is an expert of MS Dynamics NAV and has been since 1997 within the areas Project Management, Consulting & Development. Since 2003 He has been writing books on the topic of Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting, The NAV/SQL Performance Toolbox and The NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide, for NAV with SQL Server. Jorg from Germany who runs his own company STRYK System Improvement supporting NAV customers & partners worldwide. As well as finding to time to publish The NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide and blogging at http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/stryk/ Since 2006 Jorg has been supporting Dynamics customers and partners within their NAV projects as a freelancer. 2010 Position 13

Richard Hines is a fantastic mentor and inspirational speaker as he is able to communicate his vast experience within ERP, Data Warehousing and BI to you in a simple yet effective way; it makes working with him a joy. He is currently the key instructor with TWDI which has seen him expand on his more than 10 year career with Ideaca which saw him develop the finest BI division within Canadian Dynamics and has seen him rise to the role of Director. His ability to communicate through the forums and directly with Microsoft shows his talents are not just based in BI. NEW ENTRY

Jürgen Beck is working as an independent consultant, programmer, trainer and author since 1995. Jurgen is a holder of a diploma in commerce with specialization in Business Information Systems. He graduated in 2002 with excellence from the University of Osnabrück in Germany. In the world of Microsoft technologies he is certified as a MCP, MCAD, MCSD.NET, MCDBA, MCITP, MCSE and MCT. He is also certified as MBS Certified Master and CRM Developer for Microsoft CRM. For his activity on the Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community in Germany he was first awarded with the Microsoft MVP – Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Visual C# followed by Microsoft Dynamics CRM. He is the first MVP for a Microsoft Business Solutions product in Europe. A consultant, trainer, author and programmer. He was the first MVP for a Microsoft Business Solutions product in Europe, also a MBS Certified Master. His books have created a following of over 3000 for his website and blog. Website: http://www.ComBeck.de 2010 Position 33

Garth D. Laird is the president of Zap, a global business intelligence software vendor with out-of-the-box solutions for Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM. Garth spends most of his time on a plane, keeping in constant contact with Dynamics customers and partners around the world to ensure their success with BI. He sits on several local and global Microsoft Partner Advisory Councils (PACs). Garth’s focus in bringing user-friendly BI to the Microsoft Dynamics community stems from a long association with Dynamics. He started Navision Software’s Australian operations in 1996, and opened other offices across the Asia Pacific. As such, he was determined that Zap Business Intelligence should meet the needs of the entire Dynamics ecosystem, investing in innovation and technology to ensure BI was easy to use for customers, and catered for the needs of partners to add their own intellectual property. He has ensured that BI could keep pace with Microsoft’s vertical strategy in Dynamics, enabling Dynamics ISVs and resellers to create re-usable vertical BI packages to support their chosen industries. NEW ENTRY

Mark is the Program Coordinator for CRMUG, an independent user group for users of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. CRMUG is one of four user groups run by Dynamic Communities, Inc., which also includes user groups for Dynamics AX, NAV, and GP. Prior to joining CRMUG, Mark was a Senior Manager at Tribridge, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Inner Circle Partner, and focused on the selection and implementation of Dynamics solutions for mid-market companies. During his 15 years of consulting experience, Mark also spent time with Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen, serving in a variety of technical, process, and organizational roles. NEW ENTRY

Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer’s leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Ballmer and the company’s business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft’s innovation and leadership across the company’s core businesses. Microsoft’s goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services. RE-ENTRY FROM 2009