Agnes Molnar is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and serves as a Senior Solutions Consultant for BA Insight. With a strong focus on Enterprise Search and Information Management, she has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001, and has architected dozens of SharePoint and FAST implementations for commercial and government organizations throughout Europe and the Americas.
In her role at BA Insight, Agnes helps guide the company’s product development team and oversees enterprise-level deployments of the company’s technologies. A co-author and contributor to several SharePoint books, including Real World SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Agnes is a regular speaker at technical conferences and symposiums around the world.
On her blog ( www.Aghy.hu), Agnes regularly writes on the topics of enterprise search best practices, and SharePoint & FAST technologies.
Head of IT programmes, Business Solutions Unit, CIO Group, Department for Education
Alexis has led a number of successful IT initiatives in the private and public sector, supporting service delivery and business change through the implementation of innovative, award-winning solutions. In his current role as Head of Programme Delivery at the Department for Education (DfE) he is responsible for the delivery of transformational IT programmes. He manages the Information Workplace Platform, which delivers a range of web-based collaboration and information management services. Alexis’ team are working to extend these services to the wider education sector in a cloud-based platform. He began his career in the private sector, moving to the public sector when he became Head of E-Communications at the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). Whilst at the LSC, Alexis delivered major change programmes that completely transformed the IT services, establishing the LSC as one of the leading organisations delivering against the demanding requirements of the Transformational Government Strategy. 
Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing / Web Content Management (WCM) sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, Washington. Andrew Woodward is a developer by heart, with a wealth of experience in mentoring and leading agile teams. He has taken this learning and experience and expanded it with emergent thinking, dialog mapping, and serious games enabling him to really help organizations understand the rationale behind decisions and ask the tough question ‘Why’ and how to measure the benefit. Through his enthusiasm and application Andrew has promoted innovative techniques to the SharePoint community and has been awarded Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint continuously since 2007. He is also founder of 21apps.  Aonghus Fraser is the SharePoint Lead Consultant for C5 Alliance, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the Channel Islands with over 50 experienced IT consultants where he leads the SharePoint and CRM Team delivering solutions to financial institutions, legal firms and governments based offshore. Gus has been developing solutions with Microsoft technologies for over 10 years and has been working with SharePoint since the 2003 version of the product. He has been responsible for the SharePoint solution architecture for a number of enterprise clients in that period including Jersey Telecom, RBS International, The States of Jersey, British Telecom, Heineken and The British Transport Police. Gus also runs the Channel Islands SharePoint User Group, is a member of the UK SharePoint Architects forum and speaks passionately about SharePoint at a wide variety of events from user group sessions to international conferences. In the little spare time he has, Gus guest lectures to undergraduate Software Engineering and Computing students and blogs occasionally at Tech Blurt.
Ben Curry (CISSP, MCP, CNE, CCNA) is highly respected as an enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. As a senior instructor for Mindsharp, Ben shares his knowledge in training courses that cover the next generation of Microsoft products. In his capacity as a Mindsharp consultant, Ben draws on his years of experience to develop powerful customized solutions based on the SharePoint platform for our clients.
In recognition of his expertise with SharePoint Server Products and Technologies, Microsoft awarded Ben the prestigious title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
Ben is the author or co-author of two books SharePoint products and technologies. He contributes articles to key Web sites such as TechNet and enjoys speaking at user groups and private engagements.
Ben has over fifteen years of experience designing, managing, implementing and securing datacenter IT solutions. He has worked primarily with the federal government including U.S. Army, Veteran's Administration, and most recently, NASA.
Ben lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and two children. 
Ben Robb works for a professional services company in their Global SharePoint Centre of Excellence, deploying SharePoint throughout their complex internal environement. He was previously the CTO of a Microsoft Gold Partner specialising in intranet and website design and build, providing expert consultancy to clients such as Barclays, Aviva, Catlin and Deutsche Bank. He has been given the Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" award for the past five years for his work on SharePoint, and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. 
Bill English is an industry leader, author, and educator specializing in SharePoint Products and Technologies.
As Chief Executive Officer of EBA Companies (Mindsharp and The Best Practices Conference), Bill draws on his experience in business management to teach and consult about integrating SharePoint functionalities to business processes and information organization needs. Microsoft has acknowledged Bill’s professional contributions to the SharePoint community by awarding him the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for eleven consecutive years. Since 2000, Bill has authored 14 books on Exchange and SharePoint products, including the Administrator’s Companion for SharePoint Server 2010 by Microsoft Press.
Bill lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children, where summer is the six best days of the year! 
Bob Fox is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) specializing in SharePoint. He has worked with every product version since SharePoint Portal Server 2000 and dabbled with the product before the name SharePoint came into use (Digital Dashboards). Involved in the IT field for over 17 years he has worked with Microsoft Technologies exclusively and has supported technologies such as Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, DNS etc. Working exclusively with SharePoint since 2004 Bob has seen SharePoint grow from its beginnings into the product it is today. As a PFE his role is diverse (Reactive / Proactive) ranging from working with large customers facing Critsits (Critical Situations) to providing Risk Assessments (RAPS) and training to Microsoft Premier Customers.
Bob hails from the Great State of New Jersey. 
Bradley Thomas Smith is a business owner and entrepreneur living and working in Northern Virginia. He became involved in software development and consulting using Microsoft technologies after serving a tour in the United States Marine Corps. In 2005, Bradley founded Black Blade Associates, Inc. to provide high quality solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. Since that time, Black Blade has established partnerships with several key systems integrators, consultant firms, and vendors in the Washington DC/Metro area and the Microsoft market segments. Personally, Bradley’s work with MS Office server product teams led him to be provided a seat on the Office Developer Advisory Council in 2004, allowing him to contribute towards upcoming Office Server products and subsequently, the Office 12 Technology Adoption Program. Bradley was awarded the Microsoft "Most Valued Professional" award four years in a row for his continuing contributions in the general community for the next versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies and continuing dedication to work with and grow the defense and commercial markets for Microsoft business software. 
Brett Lonsdale is a SharePoint Developer specializing in the Business Data Catalog, Business Connectivity Services, Aggregation of SharePoint Lists/Libraries and SharePoint Permissions. Brett is the co-founder of Lightning Tools Ltd famous for its product BDC Meta Man. Brett spent 2 years living on Anna Maria Island, FL but now lives back in the UK in Welford Northamptonshire. You can often find Brett on twitter @brettlonsdale, hosting with co hosts Nick Swan and Rob Foster on the SharePointPodShow.com and on his blog www.brettlonsdale.com. Brett has also authored the SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog which is available from manning.com/lonsdale. 
Brian (MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCITP in SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008, MCTS, and PMP) is the Director of Technical Delivery and Instructors at Mindsharp. He presents Mindsharp’s SharePoint Administrator 2010 Core Technologies internationally and Mindsharp’s SharePoint Advanced Administrator 2010, as well as their SharePoint 2010 Power Business User / End User and InfoPath Forms 2010 classes.
Brian has co-authored three books, the most recent being Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion and been a contributing author to several others. In addition, he has written, developed, and presented numerous Microsoft, project management, and vendor-specific virtual custom classes. In February 2008, he managed Microsoft’s 24 hour-straight world-wide virtual launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, as well as their Microsoft Official Distance Learning (MODL) offering. His breadth of knowledge spans across Microsoft operating systems, Active Directory, SQL Server, and SharePoint. His numerous years of experience and broad background ideally suits him to handle designs that combine Windows, networking, SQL Server, and SharePoint Administration topics. Brian is a frequent speaker at conferences, SharePoint Saturday’s, and user groups.
Brian’s academic background includes a Bachelor’s of Science as well as a Master’s of Science in Computer Information Systems from Regis University of Colorado Springs. Brian lives in Scottsdale, Arizona where he enjoys playing golf year round and traveling around the world.  Brian Cartmel is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010, is the development manager for Advanced 365 and has over 15 years’ experience in the consultancy world with the last 9 or so being SharePoint focused. Having working through all versions of SharePoint (since Tahoe!) and many early implementations of the product, Brian still enjoys using the product to build new solutions and meet challenging business requirements. Clients include Fortune 100 organisations, financial services and retail companies many of which have deployed SharePoint as a key platform for collaboration or as an Internet facing presence. Brian also regularly presents public briefing about the SharePoint platform through the Advanced 365 Master Class series and enjoys introducing new users to the product. 
Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a Senior Consultant and Graphic Designer for Summit 7 Systems in Huntsville, Alabama. Summit 7 Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner which specializes in the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure, including Office SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server and Exchange Server.
Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked primarily with SharePoint 2007 with a focus on branding and user experience. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. Cathy worked to start the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group last year and has been working on growing the community in the area ever since. She has presented at both user groups and conferences.
Chandima aka “Chan” is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant based in New Zealand. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint expert who has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001. He provides solution architecture consulting for SharePoint deployments covering planning information architecture and governance. He is the co-owner of Knowledge Cue Ltd ( http://www.knowledgecue.com ) a company based in New Zealand specialising in SharePoint. He has presented at International and local conferences on deployment and governance best practices for SharePoint. He has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2007 for his contributions to the worldwide SharePoint community. He also coordinates the New Zealand Community SharePoint User Group events.  Chris (BSc), previously a SharePoint Administrator for 3 years is now a trainer for Combined Knowledge.
Chris trains our Power End Users with a long term goal of training administrators and developers. Whilst training and studying SharePoint, Chris also develops our End User Adoption solution, contributing content for the product and finding ways to improve its functionality. He has worked on projects with businesses involving large scale SharePoint implementation and has written a course for the new Nintex Forms 2010 product.
Providing IT support and in house training for his previous company, he has good knowledge on a variety of Microsoft systems, SAP, Java products and has qualifications in both desktop and networking. With experience working in both a call centre and also in a IT systems and infrastructure support role, Chris has extended knowledge on supporting SharePoint after it has been deployed. Chris aims to go back to his roots by teaching SharePoint administration and working alongside other SharePoint administrators. He also has a keen interest in development and in the not so distant future would also like to branch off into the world of SharePoint development.
Chris lives in Leicester, UK and has an enthusiastic and entertaining approach to training. 
Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a SharePoint Trainer for Mindsharp and Founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has a background in graphic design, web development, custom development, and has been working with SharePoint since May 2005. She helps clients take their SharePoint environment from concept to reality through her expert application of out of the box capability, custom development and polished branding that can take an environment from standard to outstanding.
Daniel McPherson (@danmc) has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing, January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas (www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before. 
Darvish ("D") Shadravan is a Senior Technology Specialist employed by Microsoft where he focuses on SharePoint, InfoPath, and related technologies. He has been with Microsoft for 12 years in various technical roles working directly with enterprise customers. Darvish holds MCTS-SharePoint, MCSE, and CISSP certifications.  With over 20 years of working in the IT industry, and 14 of them in the education sector, Dave has worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange and SQL Server. Over the last few years, Dave has been specializing in SharePoint. He started with SharePoint team services back in 2003 through SharePoint portal server 2003. He moved on to SharePoint 2007 and is now focused on the latest incarnation of SharePoint 2010.
Dave currently works as a SharePoint consultant for SharePointEduTech based in Beautiful Dorset. Many articles have been written about SharePoint deployments that Dave has been involved with, as well as case studies and architecture models that have appeared on Microsoft websites worldwide.
Dave was very proud to be awarded the Microsoft SharePoint server MVP award in April 2011, and is also a regular speaker at events worldwide on SharePoint. Dave's speaking events have include SPTechcon, Learning Gateway Conference, SharePoint Fest, and SharePoint Saturdays.  Dave McMahon is a SharePoint MVP and is Software Systems Architect for Ridgian a Microsoft Gold Partner who specialise in BI, SharePoint, Data Integration and Custom Web Applications. Over his 14 years in the industry following a career in the RAF, Dave has worked and gained extensive experience of SQL Server, XML/XSLT and ASP.NET Web Application Development. He has worked at Ridgian for the past 8 years delivering solutions to the public and private sector. In the last 3 years he has specialised in SharePoint 2007 and has delivered successful SharePoint installations to NHS Organisations, Waste Disposal Companies, Legal Firms and Local Councils. His technology interest and specialisations lie with SQL Server, XML/XSLT and .NET Development.
Dave is very active in the UK Community and is a co-founder and Birmingham Regional Co-ordinator for The Next Generation User Group, one of the largest and most active User Groups in the UK today with 7 regions around the UK, and meetings every month on the whole range of Microsoft Developer Technologies. He has spoken at User Group meetings, at the UK Community DDD events in the UK and Ireland, at SQLBITS and at TechEd Europe. 
Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy and ISV headquartered in Irving, Texas, and Director of BinaryWave Limited, based in Bristol, England. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (South Central United States). Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world.
Gary Lapointe is a SharePoint MVP who has been planning and implementing SharePoint solutions since early 2007. A developer by trade, Gary spends most of his time developing tools that enable IT professionals to be more productive so that they can focus on solving business problems and satisfying their customers’ needs. Gary’s blog at http://stsadm.blogspot.com has become the definitive source for all things related to the automated deployment and management of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife and daughter. When he’s not architecting SharePoint solutions or writing code, he’s usually playing ice hockey, snow skiing, or off on a hike in the mountains.
Heather Waterman is the Director of Synteractive Studio at the Washington DC based Synteractive, Inc. She is responsible for leading the designers and developers with an emphasis on web design for SharePoint. She has over ten years of web design and development experience, the past four with a primary focus on SharePoint branding. With these skills she has quickly become a leader in the SharePoint branding community. Her 2010 SharePoint Branding projects include Recovery.gov and Treasury.gov among others.
When Heather is not working on client projects, she contributes design and branding time to the community by developing blogs and sites for other community leaders. She resides in Laurens, South Carolina with her husband and two sons. Ian Woodgate, Managing Director of PointBeyond, the SharePoint business application specialists, has worked with SharePoint since its first release in 2001, both as a developer and subsequently as a solution architect. Ian believes in a hands-on approach and has been actively involved in a large number of SharePoint projects across industries as diverse as financial services, food manufacturing, petrochemical, professional services, retail and engineering. Ian regularly speaks about business application strategy and implementation at events and conferences around the country, as well as organising regular meetings of the SharePoint User Group in Southampton.
Jennifer has spent the last several years providing consulting services around SharePoint Technologies and is currently working with the team at SharePoint 911. In 2011, Microsoft recognized her efforts in the community and awarded her the MVP award for SharePoint Server. Her focus has been on strategy, planning, governance and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint Technologies. She has worked with a range of companies each one being in a different lifecycle of their SharePoint implementation. Prior to her consulting work she was a team lead who was responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of several SharePoint environments. She is passionate about SharePoint, and loves using the out of the box features to bring immediate ROI to the organization. Jennifer is also one of the founding members of the Columbus Ohio SharePoint Users group. 
Jess graduated from the University of York with a degree in maths and computer science in 2008. She joined Microsoft on the graduate scheme and was told on day four that she was now a SharePoint specialist – which was news to her! She now works in the partner team of Microsoft UK as a Partner Technology Advisor for SharePoint and Business Intelligence. Outside of work, Jess writes books, including Designing Forms for SharePoint and InfoPath 2010 
John Holliday is the founder and CEO of SharePoint Architects, a SharePoint consultancy focused on enterprise content management, records management and business process automation. John is the author of "Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development", and has co-authored many popular SharePoint development books, including "Professional SharePoint 2007 Development".
With over 25 years of professional IT consulting experience, John has been involved in the full range of commercial software development projects as a consulting software architect and developer. He is the creator of the CAML.NET Framework, which enables developers to build SharePoint components more easily, and the CAML.NET Intellisense add-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. John is also the founder of the SharePoint Developer Network (www.SharePointDeveloper.org - twitter: @SPDEVNET), which is committed to helping SharePoint developers find jobs, career opportunities and peer support.
John Timney is a Principal Strategy Consultant based in the UK. Much of his interest and day to day work is around Business Impact and Technical Strategies for Collaborative Solutions based on SharePoint, including Architectural Assurance and Governance, Project Management, Service Assurance and Delivery and Accessibility compliance. He is currently employed by Capgemini and is based in the North of England.
With 20 years in IT, he has a lot of experience to draw upon and has architected some of the largest and most influential SharePoint systems currently deployed. John has in the past co-authored a number of books and is active in the Technet forums daily. He also reviews for some of the world's leading book companies and recently co-authored the SharePoint Handbook. He is a veteran Microsoft SharePoint MVP, the North east Co-ordinator and a regular speaker for the Sharepoint User Group in the UK.
Kimmo Forss is an Architect with Microsoft Consulting Services. He has been working with SharePoint since the first releases to help customers and partners design and implement SharePoint solutions. He specializes in architecture, co-existence and migration. Kimmo is both a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 and an instructor in the SharePoint MCM program. In his current role Kimmo focuses on the different flavors of cloud as they relate to SharePoint. 
Lori Gowin is a Senior Consultant for Summit 7 Systems in Huntsville, Alabama with 13 years of experience in technology administration. Since 2006, she has focused on SharePoint administration. Prior this, Lori was an Information Technology Specialist in the United States Coast Guard. The broad technology experience she gained there allowed her to focus on system administration and management as well as support. She has implemented custom SharePoint solutions across the business spectrum. Lori has spoken at events throughout the southeastern United States, sharing solutions and knowledge about administration. She lives in the Birmingham, Alabama area with her husband and two sons. She is currently serving as a co-chairperson for the Birmingham SharePoint Users' Group. 
Mark Macrae (MCTS, MCAD) has been working with SharePoint Technologies since 2003 and is now Director and Senior Consultant at Intelligent Decisioning Ltd (www.id-live.com) a SharePoint focussed solutions provider based in Nottingham, UK. Mark has worked on numerous SharePoint projects with a wide range of industries, in both the private and public sectors, covering both development and deployment. Recently, he has been heavily involved in delivering Business Intelligence solutions for the SharePoint platform using the Microsoft BI Stack, including SQL Reporting Services and PerformancePoint. Mark has also been an active member in the SharePoint Community in the UK since early 2009, attending and speaking at SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) events and organising SUGUK events in the Midlands region.
Outside work Mark is also a football coach, avid West Ham Utd fan, and keen practitioner of self defence systems including Krav Maga and FAST Defence. He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two young children.
Mark Orange is a director and practicing consultant at Knowledge Cue down under in Wellington, New Zealand. Mark has been specialised in implementing SharePoint solutions since early 2007 for numerous New Zealand Government Agencies, State Owned Enterprises, and private companies. Prior to this he designed and architected Intranet and Internet solutions on early versions of SharePoint and Microsoft Content Management Server. To compliment his technical SharePoint expertise Mark brings significant experience in business process, creative design, and information architecture to ensure that SharePoint solutions are fit for purpose, easy to use and delivering value to the business. Much of his time is spent supporting clients in establishing enterprise strategies for SharePoint and Information Management.
Mark has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2007 for his contributions to the SharePoint community down in New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular speaker at technology and business conferences across New Zealand where he shares his passion and opinions on SharePoint and emerging technologies that impact information management within organisations.
 Mark is an independent consultant who has been working with SharePoint technologies since the introduction of SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Working mainly in the collaboration space Mark has a keen focus on driving effective business knowledge management. From a developer background Mark has recently moved more into application design and SME type roles. Mark has worked for many leading organisations such as 3i, McLaren F1, Kellogg, Unilever, Savills Plc, Macmillan Cancer Support and many more. Mark is also the North West regional Co-ordinator for the SharePoint User Group (http://suguk.org), arranging and speaking a meetings in the Manchester area.
Martin (MCTS, MCITP, MCPD for SharePoint 2010) is an independent SharePoint Solutions Architect with over 8 years’ experience in software development and solution architecture and has been working with SharePoint since Portal Server 2003. Martin has worked on a number of large enterprise SharePoint projects including WCMS, BI, Search, Document Management, Social as well as a few bespoke applications in between, and is equally happy in workshops with clients, cutting code or helping to design infrastructure and system designs.
Martin has always been active in the community attending (and speaking at) numerous SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) events, as well as speaking at the SharePoint Evolution Conference 2010 and SharePoint Saturday UK 2011, and was awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award in 2011.
When not delivering projects or attending community events Martin frequently posts to Twitter or his blog.
15 years ago Matt was tempted away from a career in accountancy when he became hooked on automating Excel spread sheets. Via several versions of Visual Basic and the .NET revolution Matt happened upon SharePoint in 2005 whilst working on a VSTO project. Matt now owns and runs SharePoint Boutique, a UK based consultancy specialising in designing and building bespoke solutions and helping clients adapt to developing with SharePoint.
Matt lives in the Garden of England with his wife and two boys where he enjoys murdering his guitar, supporting his local team (Manchester United), playing golf rather badly and travelling to the odd Formula One race.  Matt Benson is Group IT Manager for Cranswick plc where he has experienced change in a fast growing business since joining 16 years ago. Tasked with aligning the IT to the business need, Matt is focused on introducing IT solutions that add value. Working with SharePoint since 2007 he has overseen the introduction of SharePoint 2010.
Having spent several years developing business intelligence solutions he has now added SharePoint 2010 to the company’s internal reporting portfolio.
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Matt Groves is a Managing Consultant with Trinity (www.tesl.com, a leading Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK) and heads up the Information Worker Solutions Practice, a team who specialise in helping clients maximise benefit from effective use of technology to solve business challenges on the Microsoft IW stack.
Matt is passionate about "Web2.0" and using social media in the enterprise. The Microsoft stack is of primary interest and Matt is focussed on the IW platforms, also interested in cloud based solutions and mobility. Matt’s experience is a unique blend of infrastructure and applications, but he has always had a focus on web enabled technology dating right back to his time at Freeserve in the late 90’s.
Matt remains keen on evaluating the latest technologies and is currently ‘playing’ with a Windows 8 tablet, and wondering if DLNA is the answer to all his prayers…
In his personal life Matt enjoys spending time with his family (he has 2 young children) and has a wide range of hobbies that he no longer has much time for including Fishing, Golf and Photography.
Matt blogs about SharePoint, technology and his other interests and passions on his blog below:
Matthew Hughes (MCTS, MCITP) has over ten years’ experience in IT largely focused on IT Infrastructure, Network Administration and in the last 3 years has turned his focus to Microsoft SharePoint.
His training experience started with Web Design and CSS and has now extended to SharePoint 2010 End User and Nintex Training courses.
When he isn’t training Matt likes to get involved with the SharePoint Community via SharePoint UserGroup UK, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other online mediums.
He also presents at conferences such as SharePoint Saturdays and the SharePoint Best Practices Conference and runs an End User focused website called SharePoint 365. 
Matthew McDermott, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, is a Principal Consultant for AbleBlue in Austin, Texas. AbleBlue specializes in SharePoint Integration, Strategy and Implementation Consulting. Matthew is an author and specialist in SharePoint technologies focused on web content management, collaboration, search and social computing, Matthew has led SharePoint implementations for Fortune 500 companies since 2002.
Matthew’s free time is spent as a canine handler for K9 Search • Austin, a volunteer K9 search team serving the FBI and Austin & San Antonio Police Departments. An accomplished cook and bartender, in his spare time Matt spends as much time with his wife as his dogs will allow.
Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex, a global company committed to delivering out-of-box productivity solutions built for and with SharePoint Technology, and is responsible for product direction, evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy. Until May 2008, he had spent more than 10 years at Microsoft, the majority of that time working on Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server in roles including developer evangelism, competitive strategy, enterprise consulting, user education, product marketing, and technical event planning. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters.
Mirjam van Olst works as a SharePoint Architect for Avanade in the Netherlands. Mirjam has been helping companies in different industries and of different sizes to implement successful SharePoint portal, ECM and search solutions since 2004.
Mirjam is one of 50 Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2007 and one of 15 Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2010.
Being a strong community advocate Mirjam is a co-organizer of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG). Apart from being a regular author and editor for the popular DIWUG eMagazine, she is also an author for the Dutch .Net Magazine and the Dutch TechNet magazine. Mirjam is a regular speaker at both national and international conferences and events and can be found blogging at http://sharepointchick.com. Mirjam has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in 2010 and 2011. 
Neil Hodgkinson (PhD, MCM : SharePoint Server 2007 & 2010) is a Senior Engineering Service Engineer with Microsoft Office Division engaged as a Senior Escalation resource for Office 365. Starting his IT career as a SQL and ASP developer Neil transitioned to SharePoint Technologies back in 2000 when nobody really knew what an incredible platform it was to become. Primarily his role is keeping the Microsoft SharePoint Online platform in good shape and adhering to the best practice guidance for very large scale deployments. Neil is an instructor and content owner for SharePoint Enterprise Search and FAST for SharePoint Search on the Microsoft Certified Master Program. He has spoken at many internal, external and partner conferences for Microsoft and is a founder contributor to the Microsoft Field Engineering blog at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield.
Neil hails from Manchester and outside of work is a fan of classic rock music and UK metal bands but most of all enjoys spending time at home with his wife watching their three young children having fun and living life. 
Nick, a MVP for Office SharePoint Server, has been developing on top of the Microsoft technology stack since 2000. After creating one to many ASP.NET web sites and Winform applications Nick decide to look into another area and since 2005 has been concentrating on SharePoint.
Nick spends the majority of his time developing SharePoint tools under the umbrella of Lightning Tools. They specialize in BDC development tools and web parts. Having a background of consulting and commerical product development certainly allows real world experience to be bought into the classroom when Nick is delivering the SharePoint Development track. Nick also co-organises the SharePoint User Group (www.suguk.org) which has 2,600 active members with monthly meetings organised with presentations, and has been known to write the odd blog post at www.sharepointnick.com/blog.Nick lives in Reading with his fiance Sophie and cats Fluffy and Carragher. 
Paul is a SharePoint consultant working for Microsoft in the UK. He has an infrastructure background and over 10 years' experience in IT. He was first introduced to SharePoint back in 2005, working with SharePoint 2003.
Paul is an enthusiast of Microsoft Technologies and his passion helps bring together solutions based on the SharePoint platform and Microsoft product stack. 
Paul Schaeflein (MVP, MCTS) is an application developer with experience in all versions of the SharePoint platform. Paul has managed and worked on development teams building applications on SharePoint. As an instructor, Paul brings this real-world experience to the classroom.
Paul is an active writer, providing contributions to books, online periodicals, numerous CodePlex projects and his weblog. Paul has presented at many user groups and code camps, as well as the SharePoint Best Practices conference. Currently, Paul is on the advisory committee for Microsoft's patterns & practices group, working on SharePoint Guidance.
Paul has more than two decades experience in architecting, designing and developing software solutions. This experience covers a vast range of technologies, languages and industries. Having developed many line-of-business applications, Paul has a firm grasp on the challenges that corporate developers face when integrating them into a corporate portal.
Paul lives outside of Chicago, IL with his wife and three children. Paul spends his summers over the charcoal grill and his winters at Blackhawks games. 
Paul has over 15 years’ experience in the consultancy world with the last 10 being SharePoint focused. He was involved in the Tahoe JDP, working through all versions of SharePoint and has worked on the early implementations of the new technologies including installing the first production Exchange 2000 (1999) and MOSS 2007 (Aug 2006) servers in Europe. Paul is also the Worldwide Services Competency leader for SharePoint in HP Software and this role includes knowledge transfer to consultants in HP and customers as well as working with a major customer on their 2010 migration and governance plans. He is currently the working on the SharePoint 2010 TAP for developing HP Trim software as well as the internal implementation of SharePoint and Records management for 300,000 users.
His main expertise is as a Solution Architect in Information Management (IM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and compliance solutions based on the Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. He also specialises in the Web Content Management area with external facing portals such as http://www.business.govt.nz/default.aspx and partner based portals for well-known companies. His latest project is with a European Car manufacturer, who are transferring their Notes applications into SharePoint. The SharePoint delivery will be cloud based and Paul is the lead architect for this work. Other recent projects have included the role of solution architect for to Dutch, Canadian, Irish, Finnish and UK Government departments for their eCollaboration requirements including compliance regulations.
When not travelling the world (testing economy class seats) Pauls main distractions are sailing and power boating as well as watching Rugby Union after retiring from the game from the last set of injuries (4 broken ribs) 
Penelope Coventry is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and an independent consultant based in the U.K., with more than 25 years of industry experience. She focuses on the design, implementation, and development of SharePoint Technology–based solutions. She has worked with SharePoint since 2001 and, in recent years, has lead a team for the ATLAS Consortium on the Defence Information Infrastructure project, provided consultancy services to U.K. Microsoft Gold partners, and trained consultants, administrators, and end-users on Microsoft and Hewlett Packard projects. She has produced SharePoint related courseware for Mindsharp since 2002 and teamed up with Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge to produce several SharePoint related whitepapers. Penny has co-authored a number of books, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the two editions of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step and the Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step book. Penny has spoken at a number of conferences, at the UK’s SharePoint User Group meetings and is frequently seen at TechEd and IT Forum, either as a Technical Learning guide or at the Ask-the-Experts stands.  Peter is Head of SharePoint Solutions at ISC Software Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Cambridgeshire. He has been working with SharePoint since 2004 and organises meetings of the SharePoint User Group UK in East Anglia. 
Rob Foster is an enterprise architect and MOSS MVP in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a BBA in Computer Information Systems and holds several certifications, including MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT. In 2000 with the PDC bits in hand, Rob founded the Nashville .NET Users Group (www.nashdotnet.org), which is a charter member of INETA. Rob is a user group leader for the Nashville SharePoint Users Group (www.nashsug.org) and is the regional ISPA evangelist for the US Heartland District. He has been writing and designing .NET applications since version 1.0, as well as implementing SharePoint solutions since SharePoint 2001. In his spare time, Rob enjoys writing books and articles related to .NET and SharePoint. His latest books are "ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed" and "SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed", which is a best-selling SharePoint development book. Rob lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA with his wife Leigh and two sons, Andrew and Will. 
Rob Pratt (MCP) and trainer for Combined Knowledge has over 10 years of training/consultancy experience helping companies to make the most of their IT systems. His training experience has included delivery of technical sessions in products such as Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange. Web and Database design, in Access, VB, VBA, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator. End user training in the full Office suite from Office 97 to Office 2007. After delivering training on many different applications Rob has now settled down to specialise in SharePoint. Rob now delivers SharePoint 2007 and 2010 end user training for, SharePoint Designer and currently spends much of his time teaching Nintex Workflow 2007, Nintex Workflow 2010 and Nintex Reporting, online and in the classroom. Rob has a relaxed training style inviting questions and group participation 
Sharon Richardson has over 20 years experience helping organisations implement information and knowledge-based systems with available resources, applying trends and technologies as they emerge. It all started with a macro in Lotus 1-2-3 to automate a certain trainee's rather dull admin job... For the past 12 years, SharePoint products have dominated the technology focus. More recently, online services and tablet devices have joined the party. Sharon is director and founder of Joining Dots Ltd, an independent consultancy specialising in bridging gaps between the potential technology can offer and the benefits to be realised. No prizes for guessing the reason behind the name - technology alone won't improve the use and value of information.
Blog: http://www.joiningdots.com/blog
SharePoint tips: http://sharepointsharon.com
Twitter: @joiningdots 
Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over sixteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.
Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs. Product expertise includes SharePoint, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability.
Spencer is one of 46 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM.
Selected clients include Barclays Bank, ScottishPower, Microsoft, The Royal Bank of Scotland, BP, Unilever, HBOS, Scottish Enterprise, British Airways, The BBC, Centrica, NHS, Clifford Chance, SCVO, The Automobile Association, Ballie Gifford, Shell, British Sky Broadcasting and BASF.
Spencer is also a strong community advocate, as Vice President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association, supporting and speaking at the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums and public events such as the SharePoint Conference. He has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last ten years.
He also continues to maintain www.mcmsfaq.com, a Content Management Server resources portal. In 2006, Spencer co-authored Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0, and he frequently assists other community contributors with their writing projects.
Spencer represents Microsoft at events worldwide and was a speaker most recently at Microsoft Tech Ed Developers EMEA, 2007, SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2009, and the SharePoint Conference 2009.
Spencer is also an instructor for Combined Knowledge, EMEA’s premier SharePoint training provider.
In his spare time (not much of it) he listens to the Jazz giants of yesteryear and some young blood, and spends time with family and friends in the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, Scotland and his home town of Manchester, England 
Steve Smith ( MVP-SharePoint Server ) is the owner of Combined Knowledge in the UK and Combined Knowledge Asia Pacific providing Microsoft SharePoint Technical Training courses and Consultancy.
Steve is well travelled spending most of last 20 years travelling in the US and South Asia for the companies he owned and worked with including achieving his first qualification with Microsoft technologies on NT 4 and IIS 3 in New Delhi India in 1998 whilst based there for 3 years. Although tinkering with computers since early Teenage years Steve has specialized with Microsoft's systems since 1996 and been involved in many Microsoft Beta programs including Windows 2000, Exchange 2000 and SharePoint. The last 8 years however has seen a majority of his time with SharePoint and running the Mindsharp and Combined Knowledge SharePoint courses in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific, also helping many UK based companies with their SharePoint Implementations including the US Air Force, The Ministry of Defence and Several Blue chip companies. Steve is a Co Organiser of the UK SharePoint User Group www.suguk.org and Co Author of the SharePoint 2007 Administrators Companion from MS Press
Steve lives in South Leicestershire, England with his wife and 3 children and can be contacted on steve@combined-knowledge.com  Symon is a leader, technologist and management consultant. He is the Director of Consulting for the UK based SharePoint consultancy Brightstarr.
He creates value by bridging the gap between business and technology through a focus on strategy; people, processes and information; and Information and Communication Technology. He helps organisations to define and understand their information management challenges; to create a vision; and to design and successfully implement innovative solutions which deliver measurable benefits. Over the past five years Symon has worked with medium and enterprise clients in the UK in a wide variety of sectors including retail; public; financial; media and communications; energy; and professional services.
Symon is a regular speaker at SharePoint and Microsoft events, a monthly columnist for industry website CMSWire, and one of the authors of the SharePoint 2010 Handbook.
His focus areas include:
• Corporate strategy
• Information worker productivity
• Knowledge Management; Collaboration; Social Computing; Content Management
• Microsoft Enterprise technologies with a focus on the SharePoint and information worker tools
• SharePoint Governance
• Organisational change and user adoption
• Cloud computing
• Solutions Sales
• Value realisation
Todd Carter is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 and works as an Architect at SharePoint Trends. He is a frequent speaker and trainer with a primary focus on SharePoint performance, customization and development. In Nov 2011 Todd left Microsoft after working almost 15 years where his product experience includes not only included SharePoint, but ASP.Net, .Net development, IIS, and Active Directory. Todd was the first SharePoint 2007 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in the United States and is currently a SharePoint 2010 MCM content author and instructor for workflow, search customization, BCS, and performance testing and tuning. You can reach Todd at me@todd-carter.com 
Virgil Carroll has owned and operated High Monkey Consulting over the past 10 year and is instrumental in HMC's three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience / Interface Design, and Education. He has 8+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is both an MCTS-SharePoint and MCT. Knowing that usability plays a role in all software applications, he is currently pursuing his 2nd Master's Degree in Human Computer Interactions. Virgil has implemented SharePoint projects of all shapes and sizes, and has built a reputation around truly aligning collaboration with business needs. He is a great storyteller and will keep you entertained with his sense of humor and great Dilbert cartoons.
Waldek is Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP and works as SharePoint consultant at Mavention
Waldek shares his enthusiasm about the SharePoint platform through his blog, articles published in on-line and off-line magazines and on MSDN SharePoint Forums. Waldek participates frequently as an Ask-the-expert in community events such as SharePoint Connections, Microsoft TechEd and DevDays. Recently Waldek become a Virtual Technology Solutions Professional for Microsoft Netherlands. In this role he helps answering customer questions around SharePoint Web Content Management (WCM).
Wayne Ewington is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and a Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) on SharePoint 2010. His SharePoint experience goes back to “Tahoe” and NCompass Resolution days (which is probably a little bit sad). As a Principal Consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services in New Zealand, Wayne works with corporates and partners helping them with their successful SharePoint deployments. 
Wes is a Solution Architect at Content and Code, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in London. He has been designing WCM and ECM solutions based on SharePoint and supporting technologies for the last five years. Specialising in social intranet and collaboration solutions Wes has worked with both Tesco and Yorkshire Water to implement a person centric social intranet with advanced social features. In his spare time Wes can be found working on the Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition, a Visual Studio extension providing extended development tools for SharePoint. You can follow Wes on Twitter @weshackett and read his blog at http://weshackett.com. 
Wictor Wilén is a Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint and works as SharePoint Solution Architect at Connecta AB. He has worked in the portal and web content management industry for more than 13 years for consulting companies, founded and sold his own software company and saw the dawn of SharePoint back in 2001. Wictor is an active SharePoint community participant, writer, tutor, frequent speaker at local and international conferences, and author of SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action. In 2010 Wictor was awarded the SharePoint Server MVP title by Microsoft for his community contributions. He can be found online at http://www.wictorwilen.se/. Wictor is based in Stockholm, Sweden. |
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