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Directions 2011 Speakers

Learn from the most knowledgeable experts in the NAV Community.

Speaker Biographies

Christian Abeln, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Christian Abeln has the role of a Senior Program Manager in the Dynamics NAV client team. Before that he worked, also as Program Manager, on the Microsoft Fenway project. In his previous career he had various roles as Developer, Lead, Architect and Program Manager of a framework for CRM applications. He also had over many years a lead role in a number of German- and European-funded IT research projects.
Sessions: D100 Client Extensibility in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | D114 NAV "7" - RoleTailored Client and the new SharePoint Client | HOL102 Advanced RoleTailoring Client Extensibility

Søren Abildgaard, Microsoft
Søren Abildgaard is Director of Program Management for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. He is responsible for definition and delivery of high value and innovative releases of Microsoft Dynamics NAV both on-premise and on Windows Azure. Søren previously worked on Microsoft Dynamics AX focused on supply chain management and manufacturing. Prior to Microsoft, Søren was VP of Engineering at Autodesk and before that he developed business applications at Baan. He holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.
Session: I102 Ask the Experts

Terrence Abrahams, Microsoft
Session: E105 How MPN Affects Your Business

Debbie Adler, Partner Channel Manager, ChargeLogic
As Partner Channel Manager for ChargeLogic, Debbie provides dedicated pre-sales support, training, demonstrations, information, and technical support for ChargeLogic partners. Debbie has worked with NAV since 2003 as both a customer and a technical support representative for a NAV solution center.
Session: ISV119 Beyond Credit Card Processing: ChargeLogic Connect and ChargeLogic Shipping

Claus Busk Anderson, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Claus Busk Andersen is a Senior Program Manager in the Dynamics NAV Server team. He is focused on the NAV Server performance and availability as well as administration, deployment and installation. He has previously been involved in Reporting, Web Services and Business Intelligence for NAV. Prior to joining Microsoft Claus worked as a consultant for a large Business Intelligence consulting company. He holds a degree in Business Administration.
Sessions: D104 Mastering the 3-Tier Architecture | D115 NAV "7" - Server Administration, NAS Replacement and Deployment

Jonas Anderson
Session: RT104 RTC Upgrade Scenarios and Best Practices

Michael Anderson, Radiant Technologies
Michael Anderson has been working with Dynamics NAV / Navision since 1995, and he has both lived and worked in the USA, Asia and Europe, including being based in Denmark with close ties to the original developer of Dynamics NAV.

Radiant Technologies, through Mr. Anderson's direction, sold the first SaaS Dynamics NAV system in the USA. Additionally, Radiant Technologies sells and implements other SaaS products, including SAP. Mr. Anderson frequently speaks on the "cloud" in educational presentations and on panels on behalf of Microsoft, SAP and Radiant Technologies.

Visit Michael Anderson's session on Cloud Sales Strategies in order to prepare you and your business for the largest IT paradigm shift since the Internet.
Session: E111 Sales Strategy for the Cloud

Geoff Ashley, Vice President, Global Partner Enablement, SugarCRM
Geoff Ashley has spent nearly 30 years helping organizations of all sizes become more profitable in their business practices. Mr. Ashley has created numerous programs, courses and tools designed to help owners, executives, managers and employees efficiently and effectively grow their businesses. This methodology is currently being utilized by some of the most successful organizations in their respective industries.

Working with companies such as Epicor, Microsoft, Sage, Infor, SAP and SugarCRM, Mr. Ashley has extensive experience building channels in the mid-market. Mr. Ashley has helped companies transform from "start-up" to dominant players in their industry in a very short period of time. He has also successfully turned around several organizations that were seeing a decline in sales and profits — helping them to exceed their goals, and position them for successful IPO's or other highly profitable exit strategies.

Mr. Ashley regularly participates as a speaker at industry events. He has delivered keynote addresses and held strategic sessions for crowds of up to 10,000 people. Mr. Ashley also works with industry groups, consortiums, state and national chapters of CPA's and many other companies on a regular basis to help them create success in the very competitive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment or as an expert in building profitable cloud practices with special emphasis on the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) marketplace.

Geoff Ashley is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa with a degree in Business Management. He has created and delivered courses on sales, telemarketing, organizational change, executive management & planning and many others. Geoff Ashley is a former MIS Manager and instructor at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sessions: E112 Moving to Cloud-based Technology | E114 Cloud - Staffing, Training and Organization

Jim Augenstein, Channel Manager, Lanham Associates
Jim worked in several distribution and consumer goods companies all running the pre-cursor of what is now Microsoft Dynamics software before leaping into software consulting industry. Jim has been in the Dynamics community since 1993, serving in roles that include end user, implementer, and presales consultant, with background in Solomon, GP, and many years in NAV.
Session: ISV 118 Lanham Associates Supply Chain Demo

Christian Baek, Product Manager, Microsoft
Christian Baek is a Product Manager in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Global Product Management team. He holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and International Economics from Copenhagen Business School. He focuses on Business Intelligence, Reporting, Integration to other Microsoft products, Pricing & Licensing, Offers and other product strategy topics.
Sessions: D106 SharePoint 2010 and NAV 2009 R2 Integration Scenarios | I110 Business Intelligence and Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

George Ball, Sikich LLP
George Ball is a Partner with Sikich and has been working with the NAV product for 16 years. He has worked in business application for over 30 years. George holds an MBA with an emphasis in information technology. The NAV practice at Sikich has found a niche working with manufacturing customers. This is largely due to George's interest and depth in the field. George is always interested in learning more about manufacturing and enjoys bringing his varied manufacturing experience into a discussion.
Session: CT103 Manufacturing Roundtable

Jannik Bausager, Microsoft
Jannik Bausager is a Director in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Global Product Management. Jannik has 21 years of experience within the IT industry. His experience ranges from development to consultancy. In his career he has been country product manager responsible for several countries and responsible for the first localization of the Microsoft Windows version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. He has spent 3 years in Asia for Navision as country sales manager. Currently his responsibilities cover initiatives related to partner productivity tools, including messaging, product roadmap, market research and overall product strategy.
Session: I107 Opportunities with Microsoft Office 365

Richard Baxter, Business Development, Cost Control Software
Cost Control Software is a Microsoft Certified - Independent Software Vendor (ISV), specializing in products and services to enhance Dynamics NAV. His company has developed over 24 additional features for Dynamics NAV and numerous Training Materials and Implementation aids all for NAV.

Richard has been involved in over 130 installations of Dynamics NAV Software. He holds Certifications in Financials, Development, and Manufacturing functionality. His company is a development resource to the NAV Resellers and End-Users. Visit our product demo site.
Session: ISV104 Job Manager R2: What's New?

Todd Bergeson, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft
Todd Bergeson is a product marketing manager for Microsoft. He is responsible for product release activities, including marketing of Microsoft Dynamics® AX and Microsoft Dynamics® NAV. As a member of the marketing team, Bergeson serves as a product evangelist demonstrating the value of Microsoft Dynamics to fellow team members, partners and customers, as well as general content development and delivery, orchestration of marketing activities, tracking and measurement of business objectives for Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Bergeson has extensive experience in accounting for small and medium-sized businesses. He has amassed 20 years of experience in credit management and consulting, as well as in software training, implementation and development, and was a corporate controller for two years. He also has extensive experience in implementing and customizing accounting systems, and in project management.
Session: I102 Ask the Experts

Brad Bimson, President, Torrential Data
Brad Bimson, a 16-year veteran of the technology industry, serves as President of Torrential Data Solutions. He is responsible for the company's ongoing operations and the strategic direction of its Datahaven for Dynamics solution.

Before joining Torrential Data, Brad was a partner in the intellectual property group of a large law firm based in Virginia. Brad spent his legal career advising his clients on licensing, strategic alliances, and other technology-related issues. Brad decided to make an "honest" living and purchased Torrential Data in 2005.

Torrential Data develops Datahaven, a proven document management platform that has resolved the complex, document-driven business processes managed by custom ERP and CRM solutions since 1997. Now embedded within Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Outlook, Torrential Data offers Datahaven for Dynamics as a unique solution to the Microsoft Dynamics channel.
Session: ISV121 Discover the only scanning, OCR and workflow solution embedded into Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Outlook

Tom Blaisdell, Senior Support Escalation Engineer, Microsoft
Tom Blaisdell joined Navision Software in 1998 after beginning his career in public accounting and in management of a software support help desk. Since joining Navision and now working for Microsoft since the acquisition of Navision, Tom has been primarily focused on providing support, training, and presentations for partners and customers working with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application and preceding product versions. In these responsibilities, he has worked extensively in the core areas of Microsoft Dynamics NAV functionality, which includes Financial Management, Inventory and Costing, Fixed Assets, Order Management and Processing, Jobs, Resources, Warehouse, and Manufacturing Costing. The responsibilities have included support assistance and training on these areas of the application. Tom is grateful for the opportunity to work with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners and customers over the past 13 years. It has been an amazing journey and a pleasure to work with such a wonderful and talented group of people in the Dynamics NAV partner network.
Session: I111 NAV Costing Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Olivier Bourgeot, Architect, SaaSplaza
Olivier Bourgeot is responsible for defining and building the SaaSplaza platform for Dynamics. He is the author of several white papers about best practices for hosting Dynamics ERPs in the cloud and has extensive knowledge and experience on the matter. Prior to SaaSplaza, Mr. Bourgeot was a senior pre-sales architect for IBM in the WebSphere division. He holds a post-master degree in Computers Sciences and Database administration.
Session: ISV122 Delivering NAV in the Cloud

Nicole Brinkmann, conion media GmbH
Nicole Brinkmann is responsible for marketing and partner relations at conion media. With 7 years of experience in Dynamics NAV development, she now connects the two worlds marketing/sales and development.
Sessions: ISV117 Web client for Dynamics NAV: Fast and easy creation of web applications with Anveo Web Desk and Anveo Mobile

Dan Brown, General Manager, Microsoft
Daniel Brown is the General Manager at Microsoft responsible for the R & D of the Dynamics NAV product. A 6-year veteran of Microsoft Business Solutions, Daniel previously worked on Dynamics AX as well as platform technology supporting the Dynamics product line. Prior to Microsoft, Daniel co-founded NetAbacus, an on-line ERP company targeting the lower middle market, ran its R & D function, and successfully sold the company. He also worked as a client partner and director for the enterprise consulting company, Cambridge Technology Partners, as well as several platform technology start-ups. He holds a Master of CS, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Science, all from Stanford University.
Session: K100 Microsoft Keynote Presentation

George Brown, President, SALESWORKS Systems Inc.
A leading corporate strategist and international authority in sales and marketing, George has thirty years experience in every aspect of sales process engineering, sales motivation, software technology selection and sales training. A gifted business tactician, George has conceived developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies for thousands of businesses in the United States, Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Canada.

For over 20 years, George and SALESWORKS have been actively involved in all aspects of helping software resellers grow their revenue and more effectively manage their businesses. As CEO of Aston Group North America he was responsible for approximately 20 partner offices and was involved in the review or acquisition of more than 50 Microsoft partner companies. An extremely respected and accomplished business developer and marketer, George's core competencies are a passion for adventure, his tremendous creativity and a panache for discovering the hidden potential in any client business.

Today, George works directly with Microsoft Corporate, as well as with several Microsoft Partners, to help lift their revenue and better penetrate their individual markets.
Sessions: ES100 The Customer View of Your World | ES101 The Prospect — Sorting Options | ES102 Brand New Customer, Live for >3 Months | ES103 Long Term — 1st or 2nd Upgrade | ES104 Lessons Learned — Buyer Realities in a Linked-in World

Mitch Brown, Dynamics Channel Manager, Equisys, Inc.
Mitch has been with Equisys for the past 13 years. Currently a channel manager for Zetadocs for NAV at Equisys, Mitch works with NAV partners to facilitate all aspects of partnering to sell Zetadocs for NAV. This includes setting up partnerships, sales and technical training, marketing assistance, technical support, and implementation support.
Session: ISV 110 Zetadocs for Microsoft Dynamics NAV — Document Capture, Delivery and Archiving for NAV

Mark Brummel, Manager Europe, Liberty Grove Software
Mark Brummel is an all-round Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist. He started in 1997 as an end user. During ten years he has worked for resellers where application design and coaching were his specializations. In June 2010 Mark's first book "Microsoft Dynamics NAV Application Design" was published. The book explains the bridge between application functionality and technology. Mark works as a freelancer. His main focus area is helping out end users in implementations. He is involved in projects to provide input for future versions and test new CTP releases. Mark's blog contains a wide range of articles about Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft events. From 2006 to 2010 Mark was rewarded by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution to the online and offline communities.
Sessions: CT108 Partner Ready Software. Fresh Concepts for a Whole New Ballgame.| D108 Partner Ready Software. How to Make Successful NAV Products. | RT103 RTC Tips and Tricks

Peter Cerne, NAVOnWeb
Peter Cerne, Master of Science, has over 15 years of IT experience: Software development & implementation of his own ERP system, MS Dynamics NAV knowledge & implementation, vertical and horizontal solutions, conceptual IT solutions for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) center, system integrator, director of IT Company.
Session: ISV 116 NAVonWEB — Web Client for MS Dynamics NAV

Dmitry Chadayev, Microsoft
Dmitry is a Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for growing the functional richness of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, shaping-up the upgrading story and experience, defining key customer scenarios within ERM area of the product, assessing technical possibilities and collecting feedback from customers, partners and analysts within Dynamics eco-system.

With nine years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV development, upgrading and troubleshooting, he is Microsoft's person of choice for conducting Hands-on-Labs and technical presentations for various Microsoft Partner events.

Dmitry is a father of two and holds Master in Software Development and Specialist in Economics degrees from two leading Ukrainian universities.
Sessions: HOL102 Advanced RoleTailoring Client Extensibility | HOL103 Advanced Dynamics NAV Web Services | I108 The Value of the RIM Toolkit | I113 Preparing for How to Upgrade to NAV "7"

Eva Chiu, CEO, InfoAdvantage
Eva Chiu, CEO of InfoAdvantage, has been working the Internet marketing playbook from the beginning, helping companies get the most bang for their marketing buck — both online and off. Today she leads a team of talented, award-winning marketing professionals who work with clients to visualize the big picture, develop strategies that target their customers and craft a roadmap and implementation plan. Then they carry out the execution with a zealous attention to making all the details work for the perfect outcome.
Session: S108 Guerrilla Marketing for Unprecedented Impact

Peter Christensen, Microsoft
Peter Christensen (better known as "Bugsy") is Development Manager for the Dynamics NAV Application Team. Peter has been in Microsoft (Navision) since 1988, and has worked as a developer on almost every release of Navision/Dynamics NAV since then. Peter has through many years been managing the development team for the Role-Tailored Client, but has now moved his focus to the Application, to evolve and expand the Business Application for the future.
Session: I105 Application Overview of NAV "7"

Linda Collins, President, Western Computer
Linda Collins is the President of Western Computer. She joined Western Computer in 1986 as its first employee and has had the pleasure of being a part of the growth of the company from 3 employees to over 100 employees. Linda is responsible for the Operations of the company, the Dynamics Professional Service Teams and oversees the active project implementations.

In 2009, Linda championed the adoption of the Microsoft Sure Step methodology across the Western Computer organization, improving the quality and profitability of project implementations as well as customer satisfaction.
Sessions: CT106 Sure Step Deployment

Jonathan Cooper, Product Manager, ChargeLogic
Jonathan Cooper developed ChargeLogic in 2005 after working with NAV and LS Retail customers who needed a secure, reliable, integrated payment processing solution. Jon continues to develop the suite of ChargeLogic products to address PCI compliance and the needs of distributors, retailers, and ecommerce businesses.
Session: ISV119 Beyond Credit Card Processing: ChargeLogic Connect and ChargeLogic Shipping

Joseph Corigliano, Microsoft
Session: ISV108 NAV-X for Distribution

Marco Antonio Peña Corona, Partner Account Manager Latin America, LS Retail
Marco is the LS Retail Partner Account Manager for the Latin American Region and is responsible for managing relations with current partners and finding new partners to join our network. Among many other activities, Marco helps our partners in the pre-sales process, maintains our existing channel and partners, investigates new markets, evaluates potential partners, and provides feedback from partners to Product Management. He has 15 years' experience with Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems and 6 in the retail industry, both on product and project level, and has sold ERP and Retail Solutions all over Latin America. He has worked with retail systems since 2005. Marco can be reached at marco@lsretail.com.
Session: ISV103 Dynamics NAV in Retail

Raimonds Dilsons, Elva Baltic Ltd
Raimonds Dilsons is the Development Director of Elva Baltic's automotive industry solution Elva DMS. Raimonds has more than 10 years experience in ERP industry. He has an MBA in International Business and has worked in Dynamics NAV and the automotive industry for 8 years. Raimonds is highly experienced in NAV Development and Project management. He has participated in implementation of Elva DMS for brands such as Mercedes, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, Renault, Volvo, and more. He has expertise in the retail, warehouse, logistics and service business industries.
Session: ISV123 Elva DMS — solution for automotive industry

Brent Edwards, Magenic
Brent Edwards is a Senior Consultant for Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner consulting company. Brent has been knocking around the .NET world for over seven years, working on projects ranging from ASP.NET MVC with C# and jQuery to WPF with VB.NET. He is also the author of MVVM Fabric, a free MVVM framework for WPF. In his spare time, Brent develops applications for the Android platform. His apps have over one million downloads and he was selected by Google as a Top Android Developer for their Device Seeding Program. When not cranking out code, you can find him hanging out with his wife and four kids or riding his wakeboard, snowboard or mountain bike. Check out his blog.
Sessions: D111 Silverlight and Dynamics NAV Deep Dive (Part 1 of 2) | D113 Silverlight and Dynamics NAV Deep Dive (Part 2 of 2)

Jason Erickstad, Senior Support Engineer, Microsoft
Jason started with Microsoft in 2007 as a Support Engineer for Microsoft FRx. In May of 2008 Jason became a Senior Support Engineer focusing on the areas of Inventory Costing and CRM for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Sessions: CT111 Troubleshooting NAV | I112 Top 10 Reported Support Issues/Resolutions

Tim Estenson, Microsoft
Session: I114 Implementing the new NAV CRM Connector

Tom Falteich, Clients First Business Solutions
Thomas R. Falteich holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting, a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science and a Masters degree in Information Systems.

Tom is a former adjunct faculty member of the Iacocca Institute for global manufacturing competitiveness. He is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Organization for Systems Designers, and the National Security Industrial Association (NSIA). Tom was also on the editorial and advisory board for the Institute for Manufacturing Excellence, is a trainer for the American Product and Inventory Control Society (APICS) and frequently speaks at professional associations. In addition, Tom obtained expertise and/or certifications in products including Mapics, SAP R3, Siebel, Pivotal, Microsoft CRM, and Microsoft Navision.

His industry experience includes electronics, chemical, biotech, pharmaceutical, defense, textile/apparel, discrete manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, financial and others. He has worked with International companies such as AT&T, EDS, Bose, Dow Corning, Texas Instruments, Mack Trucks, Steel Case, General Motors, Textile Clothing Technology Corporation, Rockwell, Boeing North America, Lockheed Martin, and Hughes Electronics. Tom has worked with small to mid-sized organizations all throughout the eastern United States.

Tom most recently led the National Front Office Solutions Practice and was Senior Consultant of the Manufacturing Solution Team at Aston Group (USA), an international systems integration and consulting firm specializing in Information Technology assessments, Manufacturing Systems, Software Development, System Designs, and Network Management focused on Microsoft Business Solution's ERP products (Great Plains, Attain, and Axapta).

Tom is a founder of Clients First New Jersey and holds a seat on the Senior Management Team
Session: E106 The High Velocity Organization

Sean Fitzgerald, ImageTag
Session: ISV115 The Paperless Office: Reality with KwikTag Content Management and Workflow

Scott Frappier, Vice President, Deployment Operations, Symbiant Technologies, Inc.
Scott R. Frappier is one of the driving forces within Symbiant Technologies, Inc. Symbiant specializes in high-risk/high-end implementations and has been active in the Dynamics NAV channel since 1994. Since his employment in 2002, Scott has pushed the Symbiant organization to create the Symbiant Implementation Methodology (SIM), implemented one of the largest concurrent-user NAV installations in North America, has assisted many customers with C/SIDE to SQL transitions and SQL performance tuning, and interacts with Microsoft product management team. Recently, Scott has participated in a 1,500 user Silverlight deployment that directly integrated with Dynamics NAV. Scott loves to share knowledge, enjoys speaking and conveying the Symbiant dream, and tries to always actively participate in events that relate to the Dynamics NAV product.
Sessions: CT112 Silverlight and Dynamics NAV Discussion | D111 Silverlight and Dynamics NAV Deep Dive (Part 1 of 2) | D113 Silverlight and Dynamics NAV Deep Dive (Part 2 of 2)

Stuart Glasson, Microsoft
Stuart Glasson is a Program Manager in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV product group in Denmark. His earlier roles in Microsoft/Navision were as a developer working on C/SIDE and on Commerce Gateway/Commerce Portal projects before joining the Platform (Server and Tools) team as a PM. He's worked on every release since 2.01 (codename Midway) and has a focus on Partner Productivity and migrating the development environment from C/SIDE to the NAV Server architecture. Stuart is Australian and has a fondness for type-safe verbose programming languages.
Sessions: D109 .NET Interoperability in Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | D112 NAV "7" - Developing, Testing & Debugging | HOL105 Advanced .NET Interop with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2

Gwyn Golden, Director, Business Development, Experlogix, Inc.
Gwyn Golden is a Business Development Director for Experlogix and has more than 14 years' experience in business application software.
Session: ISV 109 Manufacturing Partner Success: Experlogix Parametric Configurator and Dynamics NAV

Harvey Grant, CEO, Elypsis
Elypsis is focused on providing solutions to Wineries and others who are engaged in one or more aspects of growing grapes and the making, selling, distribution, exporting, importing, and the storage and logistics of the shipment of wine.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV and RMS are the foundations of the integrated solution for the Winery Micro Vertical we are focused on.

I was born and raised in The Napa Valley and didn't have to look far for a vertical focus. We are not wine snobs but we are just a little bit spoiled when it comes to great wine.
Sessions: E108 Directions - Where Do We Go from Here?

Jeremy Grant, Vice President, Elypsis
Jeremy Grant is the Vice President at Elypsis, Inc., the leading provider of software and business solutions for wineries. With over 20 years of software experience, along with a background in Business and Accounting, Jeremy enjoys helping wineries find solutions to their unique industry needs. Based in beautiful Napa, California, he also makes sure to find time outside of the office getting to know his industry better with winery visits and tastings.
Session: ISV100 Close Business Intelligence deals with just a few touches! Jet Enterprise: Business Intelligence Simplified

Søren Grubov, Test Lead, Microsoft
Søren Grubov joined Microsoft and NAV in 2006. Søren has focused on test technologies and methodologies for NAV. In his role as a test lead in Dynamics NAV Application Test Team, he works on various techniques to improve quality and predictability of the NAV Application. Søren's focus since 2002 has been test tools and test automation, and he has been involved in the internal use and design of the testability features for application testing in NAV.
Session: D112 NAV "7" - Developing, Testing & Debugging

Aljosa Gruden, NAVOnWeb
Aljosa Gruden, Degree in informatics technology, has over 15 years in developing software, has extensive knowledge of programming environments in general, in particular uncompromisingly deep knowledge of MS Dynamics NAV as technical director of an IT Company.
Session: ISV 116 NAVonWEB — Web Client for MS Dynamics NAV

Nick Haman, Escalation Engineer, Microsoft
Nick started with Great Plains Software as a Support Engineer on the Great Plains Accounting program. He then moved into a Developer Support role for Great Plains followed by a Technical Analyst for Dynamics CS+. After Microsoft acquired Great Plains, Nick's role stayed the same but the title changed to Escalation Engineer. Nick has been in the Support department for his entire 18 years, now focusing on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, mainly in the debugging, reporting, platform, and performance areas.
Sessions: CT104 Reporting Roundtable | CT105 Performance Roundtable

Jesper Theil Hansen, Microsoft
Jesper Theil Hansen is the lead for the Dynamics NAV Client team responsible for developing the NAV 2009 RoleTailored Client. Jesper has worked for Microsoft for 10 years and before that for 12 years in Damgaard and Navision with his work focused on UI and Client technologies. His team is currently focused on further improving the Role Tailored experience and delivering added value driven by the new client architecture.
Sessions: D114 NAV "7" - RoleTailored Client and the new SharePoint Client | RT105 Taking the RTC to the Next Level

Niels-Erik Hansen, Roletailors.com
Niels-Erik Hansen has more than 25 years' experience in the IT business and has been working with the Navision product since 1987. He was employed nearly 8 years with Navision/Microsoft in the Microsoft Development Center in Vedbæk, Denmark. Niels-Erik Hansen was responsible for the business part of the scopes for Dynamics NAV 4.0, 5.0 and 2009 and has therefore been deeply involved in the development of the RoleTailored Client. In 2008 he established a consulting company, Roletailors.com, a consulting company providing services on RoleTailored Client analysis and assessment. Since early 2011 Niels-Erik Hansen has been responsible for the development and promotion of the agilesWorkflow tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the Roletailors.com concept and services internationally through agiles International, a company in the agiles Group.
Sessions: ISV113 Let your work flow - with agilesWorkflow! | RT100 The RoleTailored Client — a shift in paradigm! | RT 101 Roletailored Client Analysis and Assessment | RT106 Myth Busters | RT 107 RTC Up and Running

Thomas Hejlsberg, Architect and CTO, Dynamics NAV, Microsoft
Thomas joined Microsoft 8 years ago as a Principal Software Development Engineer working on Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) and later Fenway. He moved to the Dynamics NAV team as a Software Architect in 2006. Since 2008 Thomas has held the position as CTO of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Thomas has a passion for architecture, quality and performance which drives the work that he does. Before joining Microsoft in 2003 Thomas had his own software company which has been doing a variety of software - from the popular Danish word-processing/database systems DSI-TEXT and DSI-SYSTEM (dated around 1985-1990) to bowling administrating software (2003). In his spare time, Thomas likes to fly airplanes and actually he was an airline pilot for 4 years but that's another story.
Sessions: D101 What is Azure? | D103 Utilizing Cloud Services from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | I102 Ask the Experts

Amy Homan, agiles North America
Amy is the owner of agiles North America with 10 years working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The first 4 years with two different Microsoft partners as a consultant. She then spent 6 years working with another ISV solution in various roles including building a customer services team, as a sales manager, in technical marketing and channel management. Amy is now the agilesWorkflow distributor for North and Central America overseeing all aspects of Sales, Marketing, Consulting Services and Support of agilesWorkfkow within the Dynamics NAV channel. Amy and team work closely with agiles International to drive product direction and ensure partners are well supported in North America.
Sessions: CT110 Improving the ISV/Partner Relationship | ISV113 Let your work flow - with agilesWorkflow!

Dave Hutchinson, NAV-X
Session: ISV108 NAV-X for Distribution

Kati Hvidtfeldt, Sr. Director - US Dynamics Partner Hosting, Microsoft
Kati Hvidtfeldt is a 20 year veteran in Software and IT industry. She has held various roles from product management to product marketing to consulting to training to sales leadership. Kati had extensive roles in consulting and product management in enterprise accounts in USA before joining Navision Software back in 1999. She held various product management roles with NAV product, including new Internet offering called ‘Ace'. She was managing NAV product management and marketing teams after Microsoft acquisition of Navision A/S, through the years of 2002 - 2005. NAV product line doubled its revenue in those 3 years. After NAV product management, Kati transition to WW Partner team under Allison Watson to lead the efforts across MBS and ISV partners. To add more field experience Kati transition to US subsidiary to lead various cloud efforts including CRM Online incubation and now Partner hosting on ERP.
Session: E110 How to Transition Your Organization to the Cloud

Ciprian Iordache, Microsoft
Session: I113 Preparing for How to Upgrade to NAV "7"

Philippe Jacobsen, Microsoft
Philippe has worked as NAV SCM program manager since 1999. He has extensive knowledge of the distribution and warehouse management areas in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. His efforts are focused on the warehousing functionality, the Item Tracking system and several aspects of the role tailoring experience. Find a blog entry with examples of Role centres configurations. Philippe holds a M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Copenhagen, 1985, and he is CPIM certified. He represents Microsoft at the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC).
Sessions: I101 Get to Know Item Tracking | I103 Advanced Warehousing Configurations

Brett Johnson, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft
Brett has been with Microsoft for about 10 years, the last 4 as the Manager for Technology Adoption Programs (TAP) for Dynamics NAV. Before that he specialized in .NET technologies and technical projects with some of Microsoft's largest Enterprise Customers and Partners. Before joining Microsoft Brett was a developer for several notorious (but now non-existent) .COMs. He also spent most of the 1990s working in Japan for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Union Bank of Switzerland.
Sessions: E107 CfMD in the Cloud: The Future of Certified for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Solutions | RT102 Sure Step and the RTC

Greg Kaupp, ArcherPoint
Greg first began working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV in 1997 as an end user. At that time Greg was responsible for finance and information technology at a publicly traded medical device manufacturer and distributor that chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV as their ERP solution for their corporate office and all of their US subsidiaries.

After this initial exposure to Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Greg decided to pursue a career providing Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions to growing companies. Since that time Greg has been involved in Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations for companies all over the US from small emerging companies to companies in the Fortune 500.

Ten years ago Greg started ArcherPoint, LLC with Tommy and Helle Madsen. Since that time ArcherPoint has grown to approximately 60 people in 21 states focused almost exclusively on Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Sessions: CT109 NAV Implementation Best Practices | I106 Best Practices — NAV Implementations | S111 Painful Lessons Learned on Marketing, Sales Methodology and Sales Execution to grow your NAV Business

Hans Kierulff, Microsoft
Sessions: CT101 Leveraging Web Services | D102 Debugging NAV 2009 R2 Service Tier using Visual Studio | D112 NAV "7" - Developing, Testing & Debugging | D115 NAV "7" - Server Administration, NAS Replacement and Deployment | HOL103 Advanced Dynamics NAV Web Services

John Kleb, Sikich
John has been a solid NAVangelist since helping to found Directions in 2005. His passion for the product line and the channel has never wavered. John has been a business owner since he was in short pants and has been working with NAV since 1998. For 18 years John practiced as a CPA. He has been running a NAV channel practice for the last 13 years.
Session: E108 Directions - Where Do We Go from Here? | ISV108 NAV-X for Distribution

Bardur Knudsen, Microsoft
Bardur Knudsen joined Navision Software in 1997 after having spent 8 years with a local ERP vendor focusing on property management. Since joining Navision and Microsoft, Bardur has worked on the NAV application as developer and later as team lead on all versions since 1.3 and has been a main contributor to, e.g., Account Schedules, Dimensions, Change Log, Send To Excel/Word, Record Links and a number of financials-related features. Now he focuses on various architectural issues in the application area, such as dimensions refactoring and performance improvements. Bardur holds a MSc. in EE from the Technical University of Denmark and a diploma in Business Management and Informatics from Copenhagen Business School.
Session: I105 Application Overview of NAV "7"

Sheldon Kralstein, CEO and Vice President of Marketing, Clients First Business Solutions
Sheldon Kralstein's entrance into the software industry was in 1974 where he co-founded MDCR Inc. MDCR was formed to design and create one of the first spreadsheet programs for IBM mainframe computers. The company developed, sold and marketed the product to Global Fortune 2000 companies. The product, named IMPACT, became a major player and significant leader in the spreadsheet and decision support marketplace. Mr. Kralstein was Vice President of Sales and Marketing and drove sales for 10 years. With the rapid adoption of the personal computer, Mr. Kralstein left MDCR to engage in the new challenges of the PC Industry. In 1984, he founded Xecutec Business Systems. Xecutec represented numerous Mid-Market ERP packages including MAS90/200, Great Plains, Accpac, SBT, Realworld, MC Software, Macola, Telemagic, Goldmine, and others. Xecutec soon became a top reseller and won numerous awards. As President and CEO, Mr. Kralstein created sales and marketing strategies that led the company to national recognition. In 1997, Kralstein and Mark Chinsky, CEO of Ontrack Consulting, created one of the early mergers and formed XecuTrack Accounting Systems. This organization was one of the earliest "Super VAR's" with 5 offices, 50 employees and revenues of $8.66 Million. They were not only the #1 Sage Software VAR, but also became the fastest growing Navision VAR in 1998 and 1999 with 48, new sales and implementations. In 1999, Mr. Kralstein was one of the original founders of The Aston Group(North America). In early 2000, he sold Xecutec to Aston and went on to drive the Eastern Regionas a Vice President and member of the senior management team. In 2001, Mr. Kralstein became Aston's North American VP of Sales. In October of 2002, Mr. Kralstein founded Success Driven By Technology (SDbT), where he brought a wealth of knowledge and experience helping businesses become more successful marketing and selling business technology solutions. A group of SDbT's clients were interested in forming a National Practice and Clients First Business Solutions was born. Mr. Kralstein accepted the position of CEO on August 1, 2004.
Session: ISV108 NAV-X for Distribution | S107 The ERP Paradigm - Microsoft vs. World

Freddy Kristiansen, Principal PM Architect, Microsoft
Freddy Kristiansen works for Microsoft as a Principal PM Architect in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV group. Freddy is deeply involved in the partner programs laid out by the NAV team and is trying to assist partners and ISV's to adopt new technology. Freddy started his professional career in 1983 developing programming languages and has since then worked with Borland International and latest, he worked for 11 years as a developer/Architect at a Danish Software development company until joining Microsoft in 2002. Freddy is active in the community and maintains a blog which shows how to take advantage of new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Freddy relocated back to Denmark after Directions 2010.
Sessions: CT101 Leveraging Web Services | D101 What is Azure? | D103 Utilizing Cloud Services from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | D105 Integrating Windows Phone 7 to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | HOL104 Test Drive NAV "7" | HOL104R Test Drive NAV "7"

Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen, Microsoft
Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with 20 years of experience from the IT industry. He joined Microsoft 7 years ago. Before joining Microsoft he was co-owner of a company developing Time- and Project-management software for Time/system International and a Bowling Reservation system including Point-of-Sale and online reservation. Esben is working on Dynamics NAV platform Architecture.
Session: D112 NAV "7" - Developing, Testing & Debugging

Dale Lanham, CEO, Lanham Associates
Dale Lanham, CEO of Lanham Associates and Partner and Chief Architect of Absolute Value, has worked in the software business with a focus on the Distribution Industry for nearly 30 years. He takes a hands-on, personal approach to the company's software design and fosters high standards for the Lanham supply chain solutions, used by over 1,600 end user companies worldwide.

Lanham and his team created the original Advanced Distribution product for Navision, now Dynamics NAV, and have been delivering supplemental supply chain solutions in that ERP environment ever since.

Dale has successfully led Lanham Associates to many President's Club and Inner Circle Awards, as well as NAV's Partner of the Year Award in 2006.
Session: ISV 118 Lanham Associates Supply Chain Demo

Rikke Lassen, Microsoft
A Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Application team, Rikke Lassen has been working on the NAV Application team since 2004 with a focus on Integration, Business Intelligence and Reporting. Before joining the NAV application team, Lassen earned a Masters degree in Economics from Copenhagen University and started a career working as a consultant for Andersen Consulting. Lassen joined Navision in 2000 and was involved in research regarding object oriented development as well as Small Business Accounting prior to joining the Application team.
Session: HOL100 Advanced Reports with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | HOL107 NAV "7" Reporting | HOL107R NAV "7" Reporting | I110 Business Intelligence and Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Christian Lindberg, Senior ISV Program Manager, Microsoft
Christian is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics Solutions Sales & Marketing strategy and the owner of the Dynamics Marketplace and Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD) program. He has over 20 years of experience with business solution software working with customers and partners in various positions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christian worked at a Microsoft ISV Navision/Damgaard in Denmark and Germany. The ISV was acquired 9 years ago by Microsoft and became part of Microsoft Business Solutions. Christian holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
Session: E107 CfMD in the Cloud: The Future of Certified for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Solutions

Joe Little, President, Jet Reports
Joe Little has been a certified Microsoft Dynamics NAV developer and implementer since 1994 and helped launch one of the first NAV value added resellers in North America. He spent a dozen years architecting, developing and implementing solutions for hundreds of clients including the Feeding America vertical solution which is one of the largest verticals in the United States.

Joe currently serves as the President of Jet Reports and utilizes his experiences with Dynamics products, and the people who use them; to enable business people to get their information out of the enterprise system when, and how, they need it.
Session: G101 From Evolution to Revolution - The Jet Reports Suite of Products

Tera Long, Microsoft
Session: E105 How MPN Affects Your Business

Joe Lorenz, CEO, IT IS
Joe Lorenz graduated with a Master of Science (Dipl.-Ing.) in engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Subsequently he continued his research on neural networks as a post-graduate at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time in Munich, he started as a volunteer for "CHIP", a renowned German computer publication, writing many articles on software and hardware. Later, he worked as editor of the same magazine and built up a press correspondence office in the USA from scratch. For years he was in the marketing department of Microsoft Germany. He stood on stage with Bill Gates in his role as press spokesperson responsible for mid-market and professional product lines at Microsoft.

For more than 12 years now, he has been the CEO of IT IS AG, the leading company for extensions for Dynamics NAV. Today he is on the board of directors for the other members of the IT IS group. His passion is getting excellent results for our IT IS partners.
Session: ISV102 Extend Microsoft Dynamics NAV online and make money today: Real numbers and live demo right here!

Tom Loyal, Support Escalation Engineer, Microsoft
Tom Loyal is a Support Escalation Engineer in North American Support Organization at Microsoft. He has worked with integrations between Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the Microsoft stack for over 10 years, first with Navision Software US and then with Microsoft. Tom has also worked in the Microsoft reseller channel for 7 years.
Sessions: CT107 CRM Connector Best Practices | I114 Implementing the new NAV CRM Connector

Claus Lundstrøm, Microsoft
Claus Lundstrøm is Program Manager in the Dynamics NAV Core Platform team in Denmark. His main responsibilities are Reports in Dynamics NAV. Claus has been with Microsoft (Navision) since February 1999, and has worked on several different projects on the Core Platform team. He is an active blogger on the Dynamics NAV Team blog. Before joining Navision, Claus was responsible for testing Microsoft Office 97 for the Danish and Dutch market.
Sessions: CT104 Reporting Roundtable | D110 NAV "7" - Developing Reports | HOL100 Advanced Reports with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | HOL107 NAV "7" Reporting | HOL107R NAV "7" Reporting

Gerhard Maly, Lanham Associates
Gerhard Maly, Product Manager for ACE Warehousing at Lanham Associates, holds a Master of Science degree in Technical Mathematics from the Technical University of Vienna and an MBA in Finance from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

Gerhard has gained extensive experience in Distribution and Manufacturing over the past 12 years by spearheading many NAV Warehousing implementations worldwide. Currently he is responsible for all aspects of Lanham's ACE Warehousing, including maintaining high product quality, creating functionality, and supporting partners in implementing the product. Since taking this position in 2010, Gerhard has assisted the Lanham reseller channel in doubling the ACE Warehousing implementations globally.
Session: I103 Advanced Warehousing Configurations

Mauro Marinilli, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Mauro Marinilli is senior program manager in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. He started in Microsoft in the MBS Fenway team. Previously he worked as a consultant (UX architect) on a number of complex custom ERP projects across Europe and US. In a previous life he was a Java developer and team leader (publishing articles and technical books in various areas). He holds a Master of CS and a PhD in applied AI from the University of Rome.
Sessions: D106 SharePoint 2010 and NAV 2009 R2 Integration Scenarios | D114 NAV "7" - RoleTailored Client and the new SharePoint Client

Jason Mindte, VP Sales, Data Resolution
Since 2000 Jason Mindte has been blazing a trail and writing the book on how to host Dynamics in the cloud. Jason has been leading Data Resolution to the forefront of the Microsoft Dynamics Community. Over those 11 years has been showing partners how to sell Dynamics in the cloud. Jason is an expert in Dynamics Hosting and delivery. Since 2008 we have been hosting Dynamics NAV and have several large implementations of Dynamics NAV.
Sessions: G100 Making the Move to the Cloud | ISV107 Dynamics NAV delivered via Click, Try Buy

Olivier Meynier, US Director, SaaSplaza
As Director of the SaaSplaza US operations, Olivier has been instrumental in building the SaaSplaza Dynamics Cloud offering from the ground up. Working with Partners across North America, Olivier has brought on an unprecedented number of new SaaS customers, via working with and educating the Partner channel. Olivier has passion for the Cloud and Enterprise hosting and is committed to help each and every Dynamics Partner build a successful, sustainable Cloud CRM and ERP business.

Previously, Olivier was VP Software Development and brought to life several Cloud-based solutions built on the Microsoft technologies. Mr. Meynier holds a Masters Degree in Computer Sciences with a focus on distributed application architecture and database integration.
Session: ISV122 Delivering NAV in the Cloud

Bill Moffett, Microsoft
Bill Moffett has worked extensively with the NAV product from all different levels. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked for Srixon Sports USA (an NAV customer) as Director, Logistics and Inventory Control, focusing on their international supply chain and deployment of NAV. He has also worked in the NAV partner channel in the Sales and Implementation capacity. His NAV roots also date back to the original Navision US team where he worked in Channel Management, Product Marketing, Strategic Alliances, and Technical Support. In addition to his software solution experience, Bill has 19 years of experience in the Supply Chain / Distribution arena focusing on demand planning, procurement, logistics, and inventory control.
Session: S105 Reduce the Cost of Sale: Best Practice and New Inspiration

Per Mogensen, Mergetool.com
Per Mogensen 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, Mogensen began working for PC&C A/S, which later became Navision A/S in Denmark (later acquired by Microsoft).

Over the next 10 years, he has been Development Manager for Lanham Associates with responsibility for maintaining high quality and continued improvements of the products.

Since the company Mergetool.com was started in February 2010 he has been working on training and assisting partners with upgrade and conversion to the RoleTailored environment for Dynamics NAV.
Sessions: CT100 Mastering Security Setup | ISV105 Field Level, Actions and Data Security from Mergetool.com | S113 Sell Roles that Work

Olga T. Mulvad, Program Manager, Microsoft
Olga T. Mulvad has worked as a Program Manager for the Dynamics NAV core development team for 8 years, being responsible for managing the design, implementation and release of selected application features. Prior to this, during her first three years with Microsoft Dynamics Development Center in Copenhagen, Olga held a number of positions in training development, product support and partner education.  Throughout her career, she has specialized in Supply Chain application area, with strong focus on inventory management, trade, logistics, and inventory costing. Olga holds an MSc in Business Administration and is CPIM certified.
Sessions: I104 NAV "7": From Local Kitting to Global Assembly | I111 NAV Costing Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Brian Nielsen, Microsoft
Session: I105 Application Overview of NAV "7"

Karina Nielsen, Celenia
Session: RT104 RTC Upgrade Scenarios and Best Practices

Michael Nielsen, Director of Engineering, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft
Michael has been with Microsoft and Navision for 25 years. Among other things, Michael designed and wrote the C/AL compiler, runtime and IDE. Michael manages the NAV Development team and is responsible for the transition of NAV from being a 2-tier on premise product to a product with a 4-tier cloud and .net based architecture.
Session: I102 Ask the Experts

David Novak, SPS Commerce
David Novak is a 20-year veteran in Enterprise Software and a Senior Executive at SPS Commerce.
Session: G103 EDI and Supply Chain in the Cloud — Your Customers are Ready, are You?

Michelle Olson, Director of Client Relations, Data Resolution
Michelle Olson, formally of McGladrey Cloud Services team, brings more than 16 years of experience working with technology software. Michelle is one of the founding members of the hosting Dynamics world. The last 10 years have been dedicated to running McGladrey's Cloud Services / SAAS program. She has a strong passion for great customer service and technology. Her versatile combination of sales, consultancy, and technical leadership combined with presence and personality is a winning combination for the Cloud Services industry.
Sessions: G100 Making the Move to the Cloud | ISV107 Dynamics NAV delivered via Click, Try Buy

Jim Pathman, Director of R&D, Data Resolution
Jim Pathman, Formally of Rose ASP a Dynamics Hosting company, ran the Rose hosting practice. He wrote the book when it comes to delivering Dynamics via the cloud and worked on the Rose ASP my GP Cloud delivery system. Jim Pathman has been CIO at the following companies: Option One Mortgage, HR Block, Lehman Brothers, and ID Analytics. He brings a vast experience when it comes to running IT solutions and systems delivery. With Data Resolution he runs our Research and Development Department.
Sessions: G100 Making the Move to the Cloud | ISV107 Dynamics NAV delivered via Click, Try Buy

Nils Peemöller, CEO , conion media Gmb
Nils Peemöller, CEO of conion media from Hamburg, Germany, has more than 13 years of experience with Dynamics NAV: Especially web based solutions directly connected to Dynamics NAV were one of the most often realized project types in the past. Understanding the NAV partners needs led to the development of Anveo Web Desk and Anveo Mobile - the smart solutions for NAV partners to publish business processes.
Session: ISV117 Web client for Dynamics NAV: Fast and easy creation of web applications with Anveo Web Desk and Anveo Mobile

Brian Petersen, Director of Business Intelligence Solutions, Jet Reports
Brian Petersen has architected and implemented reporting solutions for more than 150 clients across more than 2 dozen industries during his past 5 years with Jet Reports.

Brian now heads up the Jet Enterprise team which is responsible for delivering and customizing Business Intelligence solutions to meet the demanding reporting needs of Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP, and Dynamics AX clients across the globe.
Session: ISV100 Close Business Intelligence deals with just a few touches! Jet Enterprise: Business Intelligence Simplified

Ryan Pollyniak, Dynamics Channel Manager, Equisys, Inc.
Ryan Pollyniak has been working in ERP and ISV sales since 2004. Working for ADP Dealer services from 2004-2007 as a territory manager selling an ERP solution for the car dealership vertical gave him a good understanding of the challenges faced by organizations that deliver ERP solutions. Working with Equisys since 2007 has helped Ryan to develop an expertise in the areas of document delivery and document imaging as it relates to NAV users. Ryan works with NAV partners to offer these areas of expertise when dealing with NAV users. As a channel manager for Zetadocs for NAV at Equisys he works with NAV partners to facilitate all aspects of partnering to sell Zetadocs for NAV. This includes setting up partnerships, sales and technical training, marketing assistance, technical support, and implementation support.
Session: ISV 110 Zetadocs for Microsoft Dynamics NAV — Document Capture, Delivery and Archiving for NAV

Susanne Priess, Microsoft
Susanne Priess is an Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Support team. She has been with Microsoft for more than 10 years and has held positions in support and training for Microsoft Dynamics NAV focusing on Financial Management, CRM, Service, Licensing, Systems, Development, Upgrade and Business Analytics.
Session: I100 Licensing Bootcamp

Scott Pugmire, Partner Technology Advisor, Microsoft
Scott Pugmire is a 13-year ERP industry professional with extensive knowledge in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and vertical industries. Scott began his software career at an Atlanta-based Dynamics NAV reseller in 1998. There he gained experience in Navision implementation as well as software project management, methodology, and design development. Scott joined Navision in late 2000 which later became part of Microsoft. In late 2005 Scott moved to product marketing at Sage and was delighted to return to Microsoft in 2010. In his role as Partner Technical Advisor he utilizes his skills in ERP and CRM sales and implementation to help Dynamics partners reach their full potential.
Session: CT106 Sure Step Deployment

Jesper Raebild, Microsoft
Jesper Lachance Raebild holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and Computer Science from Copenhagen Business School. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 Raebild has held various positions as Developer, Team Lead and Program Manager before he joined the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Global Product Management team. In his current role as Senior Product Manager he focuses on the sales tools and demonstration tools for Microsoft field and partners.
Sessions: I109 The Journey to the Cloud Starts Here! | RT105 Taking the RTC to the Next Level | S105 Reduce the Cost of Sale: Best Practice and New Inspiration

Sine Rix, Microsoft
Sine has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV for more than 8 years. She started working as an accountant using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and has been working with Microsoft Learning as a courseware writer for the last 4 years. Her specialties are the financial areas; however her passion is to develop world class courseware for Microsoft Customers and Partners.
Session: HOL106 Inventory Costing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Michael Rosenørn, RoleTailors
Michael Rosenørn has a long history with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. In 1997 he joined what was then the Danish company Navision a/s and has worked in various roles in product support, program management, product management and technical evangelism – presenting and promoting the NAV product all over the world. Michael created his own small consulting business (Rosenorn) two years ago, and having worked quite extensively with the RoleTailored Client, he therefore has been helping to educate partners in how to help their customers benefit from this new opportunity. Rosenorn also offers assistance in pre-sales and presentation and demo techniques.

For the past 6 months Michael has been working closely with agiles International, doing partner support, training and some product management for the agiles Workflow Solution
Sessions: HOL102 Advanced RoleTailoring with Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 | RT106 RTC Myth Busters | S114 Demo to Win in RTC

Diane Saeger, Vice President of Marketing, Jet Reports
Diane Saeger, VP of Marketing for Jet Reports has been in the NAV community since 2000. Her background in ERP sales led her to create higher level marketing strategies designed to capture interest and spark action to increase sales activity. She has worked with many companies to maximize their market presence and growth. Diane is currently serving as Chair of the Sponsorship Committee for Directions.
Session: S108 Guerrilla Marketing for Unprecedented Impact

Christian Sega, Managing Director, agiles Group
Christian Sega has been in the NAV channel for over 15 years in various roles and for the last 7 years, the Managing Director and shareholder of agiles Group, a NAV partner since 1992. He has a strong focus on international ISV business and strategic business development. Christian has global responsibility for agiles Group in order to drive this ISV business development out of the agiles home market in Germany. agiles has several offices in Europe and is represented with agiles NA LLC in the North American market. He is a Member of Excellence in the Microsoft Business Sales Circle and part of the Microsoft executive academy.
Sessions: S109 The Competitive Landscape | S110 How Social Media Can Help Sell

Dan Schwartz, BIO Analytics Corp
Daniel J. Schwartz, CPA, MBA, is the president of BIO Analytics Corp. He is also the CEO and founder of NexVue Information Systems, which for 20 years has been providing mid-market companies with accounting and reporting platforms to increase their organizational efficiency and performance.

Dan began his career as a CPA working at the then Big 8 accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand. He quickly became less passionate about the data itself than about the process of using the data to boost organizational effectiveness and drive business value and went on to found NexVue Information Systems. In addition to providing software implementation expertise, NexVue developed Key Change and Account Reconciler software utilities, as well as the operational analytics platform BIO.

The early success of BIO resulted in Dan's spinning off the company's software development division. Named BIO Analytics Corp., the company is dedicated to meeting the growing demand for its breakthrough BIO business intelligence platform and continuing the development of other affordable, state-of-the-art BI and business analytics solutions for mid-sized companies.
Session: ISV120 BIO Analytics Corp

Runar Sigurbjartarson, Partner Account Manager North America, LS Retail
Runar is the LS Retail Partner Account Manager for North America and is responsible for managing relations with current partners and finding new partners to join our network. Runar has over 11 years' experience with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and LS Retail. Runar can be reached at runar@lsretail.com.
Session: ISV103 Dynamics NAV in Retail

Paul Staley, CCH
Paul Staley is the manager of the CCH Corporate Professional Services department for CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business. He has over 23 years of experience in the tax and accounting industry. For the past 6 years, Paul has been managing a team of consultants which has a great reputation for providing quality professional services for CCH’s sales and use tax solutions including project management, business analysis, requirements gathering and documentation, software solution design, deployment and the integration of these solutions with a variety of ERP applications including Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Session: ISV101 Managing the Changing Climate of Sales & Use Tax with Microsoft Dynamics NAV - CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business

Dave Studebaker, Chief Technical Officer, Liberty Grove Software, Inc.
David Studebaker is co-founder of Liberty Grove Software. LGS provides development, consulting, training, and upgrade services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV resellers and end user firms. He has been programming since 1962 and developing in C/AL since 1996. David is the author of two books "Programming Microsoft Dynamics® NAV" and "Programming Microsoft Dynamics® NAV 2009". These books have become the defacto guidebooks for NAV developers all over the world. David has also penned many trade and professional article publications and made contributions to a wide spectrum of NAV and other forums and conferences. David is a Lead Microsoft Certified Trainer for NAV. David has been a member of the Association for Computing Machinery since 1963. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, both with concentrations in computer science. David is a serial entrepreneur, and has been an owner and manager of several computer systems businesses, while always maintaining a significant role as an applications developer and consultant.
Session: RT102 Sure Step and the RTC

Fred Studer, GM, Dynamics ERP Business Group, Microsoft
Fred Studer is an accomplished marketing executive with a solid track record in both product and corporate marketing. He is an award-winning presenter with proven ability to understand and communicate complex technology vision. Fred brings over 20 years of experience to his position as Microsoft's GM, Dynamics ERP Business Group.

As Microsoft's General Manager for ERP, he is responsible for a multi-functional team covering Dynamics AX, NAV, GP, and SL with the cumulative revenue accountability for all of these products World Wide. The core accountability of his team is to define innovative strategies that will change the paradigm of traditional ERP by differentiating the Dynamics ERP portfolio on simplicity, value and agility. Fred and his team have the direct accountability for setting the long term business strategy across all segments, aligning product plans with R&D and then building and executing the Marketing strategy. These responsibilities include Product strategy, cloud strategy, Channel alignment, customer engagement, sales models and market evangelism.

Previously, Fred was the GM of the US Information Worker Business. He was responsible for the US subsidiary revenue and P&L performance for Microsoft's Information Worker (IW) Products that is more than $7B in revenue. These products include Office, Project, Visio, SharePoint, Office Live, Outlook, Exchange, Office Communication Server and the IW Cloud Computing Services of Microsoft Online. Focused on driving growth, Fred led all marketing elements required to land IW P&L to include marketing, specialist sales strategy, technical sales strategy, partners, and services.

Before joining Microsoft, Fred spent 12 years at Oracle and for the last several years was the Group Vice President of Marketing. His organization was responsible for identifying market opportunities, creating marketing strategy, and generating awareness and demand for Oracle's Applications and Industries Solutions.

Originally from Denver, Colorado, Fred received his BS in Accounting and Finance from the University of Colorado, Boulder and is a Board member of the Thunderbird International Management School of Business.
Session: K100 Microsoft Keynote Presentation

Ron Summers, President, Centerline Software, Inc.
Ron Summers is the Centerline's President. He is responsible for the development of all Centerline products. Ron has 10 years experience in software development and consulting related to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. He is the leading expert in using Report Definition Language (RDL) and SSRS with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Session: ISV112 Drill down into the Pivotier Suite of Reporting Tools, G102 Revealing Pivotier Express Plus

Alvis Tabaks, Elva Baltic Ltd.
Alvis Tabaks is the International Sales Director for Elva Baltic. He has been working for the company since its founding and for a long time was responsible for its Sales Department. Under his leadership, Elva Baltic has taken first place in the Baltic States as Microsoft Partners for Dynamics. He has participated in almost all of more than 250 project sales Elva Baltic has made. Alvis has expertise not just in Microsoft ERP software Dynamics AX and NAV, but also in CRM. He has great experience and knowledge in the entire structure and partner ecosystem of Microsoft Dynamics. Alvis is responsible for building the partner network for Elva DMS, which already covers more than 60 countries worldwide.
Session: ISV123 Elva DMS — solution for automotive industry

Doug Tanner, Senior Sales Engineer, Altec
Doug Tanner has been with Altec for over 12 years. For the first ten, he worked directly with doc-link customers onsite as a consultant. Now, as Senior Sales Engineer, Doug uses his extensive knowledge of the software and its users to help our sales team and partners better understand how to utilize doc-link to streamline accounting systems and increase efficiencies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and has received a number of awards internally for his product knowledge and customer intimacy.
Session: ISV111 Are Your Clients Drowning in Paper? Catch the Wave of doc-link, Integrated Document Management

Tom Taylor, Microsoft
Tom Taylor is a Partner Technology Advisor on the Microsoft Dynamics US Central Region ERP Team. His is focus is on providing partner readiness and engaging with partners to assist in winning Dynamics business. Tom has worked as an ERP presales resource for the past 17 years at Microsoft, SSA Global/Infor, two Microsoft Navision reseller and Computer Associates. Prior to presales, worked 16 years at the Atlantic Richfield Company as a corporate IT professional serving in various capacities from a programmer to IT Manager.
Sessions: CT104 Reporting Roundtable | CT107 CRM Connector Best Practices

Marya Ulis, ImageTag
Session: ISV115 The Paperless Office: Reality with KwikTag Content Management and Workflow

Jeff Warwick, Clients First
Jeffrey D. Warwick, Vice President of Sales, brings to Clients First 27 years of technology sales and sales management experience. Jeff is an advocate of the sales philosophy that says: "Do right by the customer and sales and profits will come naturally." His philosophy is centered around delivering results that benefit the client, not simply selling software at all costs.

Prior to joining Clients First, Jeff was Regional Sales Director (RSD) for Aston Business Solutions, formerly Xecutec Business Systems, where he was responsible for a team of Account Executives and Pre-Sales Support staff. Jeff's 12-year tenure and significant contribution to the direction and leadership within the organization brought Aston/Xecutec more than 300 happy clients and the reputation of being an industry leader.

Jeff is a Clients First founder and member of the Senior Management Team.
Session: S106 What Win/Loss can Teach You

Eric Wauters, iFacto Business Solutions NV
Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions. 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 which he invariably signs with "waldo." In 2008, he co-founded the Belgian Dynamics Community, a platform for all Belgian Dynamics NAV enthusiasts, enabling knowledge sharing and networking. His proven track record entitled him to be awarded as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) every year since 2007.
Sessions: CT108 Partner Ready Software. Fresh Concepts for a Whole New Ballgame. | D107 Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 Web Services Integration Scenarios | D108 Partner Ready Software. How to Make Successful NAV Products.

Brett Wheeler, General Manager, IT IS US
Brett Wheeler began programming his own database programs in BASIC on Windows 3.0. After high school, he attended college on academic and engineering scholarships, studying electrical engineering, computer programming, and music. After serving in the US Army as a linguist, Brett finished his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems Management.

Brett's professional experience is as varied as his interests and educational background. He has filled every role from Senior Programmer Analyst to Independent IT Consultant to IT Director in industries as various as GIS Mapping, Interstate Gas Pipeline, and Tribal Gaming Casinos. He brings deep technical understanding and Microsoft Certifications, as well as business insight and an ability to communicate with users at every level.

Brett is proud to lead IT IS operations in the US, and looks forward to fulfilling partner and customer wishes for driving their businesses forward.
Session: ISV102 Extend Microsoft Dynamics NAV online and make money today: Real numbers and live demo right here!

Paul White, Microsoft
Paul White is responsible for driving strategy and positioning for the Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions portfolio, serving midsized businesses worldwide. Specifically, Paul focuses on Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics SL.

Prior to his current role, Paul led the Microsoft Dynamics business in the United Kingdom. Under his leadership, the United Kingdom became one of the fastest-growing large subsidiaries for Microsoft Dynamics, which can be attributed to Paul's passion for the Microsoft Dynamics ERP business applications and the benefits they can deliver to customers.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2005, Paul was managing director for Touchstone, a publicly listed, mid market focused, systems integrator. He was previously managing director at Pegasus Software, an ERP vendor focused on the small and medium sized market.

Paul resides in London with his wife and two children.
Session:  K100 Microsoft Keynote Presentation

Mark Wilhelm, Director of Product Management, Avalara, Inc.
Mark Wilhelm is a self-proclaimed "recovering accountant" with years of experience as an internal auditor, reporting accountant, controller and consultant. Mark's broad experience spans companies of all sizes as well as complex financial systems. Mark's consulting business targeted small and medium sized businesses, but his background enabled him to continue serving divisions of Emerson Electric and TDCI. Recognized for his skill in implementation, product management and training, he joined Avalara in 2005, managing projects, developing tax content and rules, creating training programs and product improvements.
Session: ISV114 Cerberus — Which Head of the Sales Tax Beast Bites You First?

Mary Williams, President, Infinitek
Mary Williams has been a Dynamics VAR from the very beginning. She is a small partner that implements Dynamics on a day to day basis. Her business is growing now that she has moved her license model over to the cloud. Mary will discuss how she made the transition from the Standard License model to the Cloud license model.
Session: G100 Making the Move to the Cloud

Gary Winter, Partner, Managing Director, agiles Group
Gary has thirteen years of experience in designing and selling products based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV. He specializes in building partner ready software that is coherent from the sales message through implementation and right down to coding level.

Together with fellow NAV enthusiasts Eric Wauters and Mark Brummel, Gary has embarked on a journey to bring fresh ideas to the architecture of NAV add-ons that open up the product and the partner channel for the challenges and opportunities of the future.

At the beginning of 2010, Gary has joined the management of the agiles Group, becoming shareholder in 2011.
Sessions: CT108 Partner Ready Software. Fresh Concepts for a Whole New Ballgame. | D108 Partner Ready Software. How to Make Successful NAV Products.

Garrison Wynn
Garrison helps people learn how to make the jump from being great at what they do to understanding and developing the qualities it takes to be chosen for the job. He gets them to understand why their products, services, or leadership styles - or those of their competitors - are selected. As he says, “If the world agreed on what's best, everybody would choose the best and nothing else would be considered. Decision making doesn't work that way.”

As a speaker, advisor, author, and entertainer, Garrison has worked with some of the world's most effective corporate leaders and business developers, from multibillion-dollar manufacturers to top New York Stock Exchange wirehouses. He has a background in manufacturing, entertainment, telecommunications, and financial services. In his teens, Wynn worked with Magnavox and baseball legend Hank Aaron to promote the world's first video gaming system, and by age 27, he became the youngest department head in a Fortune 500 company's history. He researched and designed processes for 38 company locations nationwide and developed and marketed products still being sold in 30 countries. An experienced actor in films and a former professional stand-up comedian, Garrison has hosted television specials and national radio programs. His new top-selling book, published by McGraw-Hill and available in bookstores worldwide, blends a decade of research and Garrison's candid, laugh-out-loud delivery to finally spill The Real Truth About Success. His additional writing credits include business journal articles, weekly contributions to The Washington Post and has co-authored with Stephen R. Covey, Ken Blanchard, and Jack Canfield.
Session: K101 Conference Keynote - The Truth About Success: Being the Best vs. Being Consistently Chosen

Chris Young, Clients First
Christopher Young is an honors graduate of Rutgers University and holds degrees in Accounting and Business Administration. Chris began his career in information technology in 1986, when he became an analyst for a New Jersey-based food manufacturing company.

In 1995 Chris joined Xecutec Business Systems/Aston Business Solutions, a large value-added reseller of accounting, distribution, and manufacturing systems as a business analyst and technology implementer. Chris mastered both front and back office technology solutions and was personally responsible for more than 100 implementations. With strong leadership and project management skills, he led a team of analysts, implementers, trainers, and programmers and has a valued reputation in the industry. Chris was first certified in "Navision" in 1996.

In 2003 Chris fulfilled a dream of running his own business as a founding member of the Clients First Senior Management Team.
Session: S112 RTC Playbook

Dan Youngers, Dynamics NAV PTA, Microsoft
Dan Youngers has been at Microsoft for over four years working as a Dynamics GP PTA and has now transitioned into a new role as the West Region Dynamics NAV PTA. In the past, he has worked with partners to help them leverage more of the Microsoft stack and incorporate this into their Dynamics practices such as SharePoint, SQL Reporting Services, Excel Reporting Services, etc. Dan has also been the Western Region lead for Dynamics ERP Hosting and has assisted with building competitive information on NetSuite, Intacct, and other hosted ERP solutions. He works out of our Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA.
Session: CT102 How to Prepare for the "Cloud"

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