12 Fred Hermans

Founded Magnus in 1992.  From 1992 to 2001, he was initiator and subsequently the regional managing director of Magnus’ practice in Asia-Pacific and a member of the Board of Directors of Magnus Holding NV.  Appointed CEO of Qurius where he has taken the business to be the largest, by volume of sales, VAR in Europe.

13 Claus Hansen

With a solid track record in management in the IT industry and the original founder of Aston Group, one of the largest and fastest growing global Microsoft solution providers until thecompany was sold to Tectura.  Now CEO of Columbus he has been responsible for overseeing the largest number of global implementations of Microsoft Dynamics.

14 Terry Petrzelka

Responsible for the development and strategic direction of Tectura.  He sets the vision and values for this privately owned global services company.  He also drives the overall global sales leadership. He has developed Tectura to become the force that they are today.

15 Hans Skovgaard

Product Unit Manager for Microsoft Dynamics, building on his experience as R&D Director at Mondosoft where he brought two revolutionary products to market, he has been responsible at Microsoft for the Product lines Green & Axapta & ABP Navision.  Now responsible for the new add-on products and the development of Dynamics AX.

16 David Singleton

Began his 16 year career with Dynamics Nav as an end user, and has quickly established himself as one the most qualified people within Dynamics Nav. His extra activities include his moderation of DynamicsUser and his authoring of Go-Live With Navision as well as his work with Dynamics Wiki.  

17 Mark Corley

He has developed and implemented Dynamics CRM Software + Services (SaaS) strategies, including product marketing and management.  Built the partner hosting business by training over 650 hosters in 24 countries, doubling active hosters and growing subscribers by 300%.  Pioneered SaaS Readiness program to accelerate ISV ecosystem, including online assessment tools.  He has developed channel strategy, value proposition and marketing material for thousands of VARs, integrators, ISVs and hosters.  Oversaw all CRM partner programs, including recruiting, activation, field management, compensation and recognition programs.  Launched CRM 4.0 to channel, including all readiness activities for channel partners globally.

18 Doug Burgum

Founder and CEO of Great Plains who continued to have success when on joining Microsoft he led Microsoft’s acquisition of Navision.  The two companies combined to create Microsoft Business Solutions.  He left Microsoft to set up his own seed funding company Arthur Ventures where he continues to invest in Information Technology,Life Sciences, and Clean Technology.

19 Paul White

Following his experience with Systems Union, he became a Director with Pegasus and then took over the day today running of Touchstone transforming the company from a small ERP company into the major Microsoft Dynamics provider in the UK.  He then joined Microsoft as the MBS Director for the UK where he has overseen an unprecedented growth of Microsoft Dynamics to the point where it is now the third most valuable geographical market in the Microsoft Dynamics Organisation.

20 Frank Lee

President of Workopia Inc a premier Microsoft Dynamics CRM certified specialist for small and medium size businesses across America.  Frank has been actively involved with Microsoft CRM implementations since v1.0 beta (2002).  He is widely renowned in the channel as a speaker and his convergence talks are the most blogged in the CRM space.

21 Poul Kjaer

The founder and CEO of Partner Power, he is the public face of the company and responsible for developing the overall company strategy.  He joined Navision A/S in 1997 as Area Manager with responsibility for the development of subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe, and was responsible for establishing new subsidiaries in Europe, Eastern Europe and the Far East.  His networking skills are responsible for the development of Partner Power, creating the largest single network of companies capable of delivering Microsoft Dynamics.

22 Matt Wittemann

The COO at Customer Connect, a CRM consulting firm.  He has been working with CRM since shortly after its initial release, and has architected and deployed numerous CRM implementations, including one that received a national award from Microsoft.  It is his work on AskCrm.com which has brought him to the wider attention of the Dynamics CRM community where his technical knowledge has the greatest impact and his followers now total over 5000 worldwide.

23 Mark Brummel

As an all-round NAV expert, Hestarted 12 years ago in 1997 as an end user and an early adopter of the system. To share knowledge he writes articlesand gives workshops.  He also assistsMicrosoft at events like Tech Ed and Convergence and participates in productdevelopment.  One of his special skillsis performance tuning of NAV systems, combining both technical and functionalknowledge to establish better systems and happy end-users.

24 Alex Chow

Started working with a large solution centre implementing Navision back in 1999.  Then formed AP Commerce,Inc. with a mission to become a service-oriented organization instead of a sales-oriented organization.  Since inception the company has a record of maintaining a 100% customer retention rate.

25 Luc Van Dyck