The Top 100 recognises the individuals who
contribute the most to the Microsoft Dynamics channel.
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Mariano Gomez
Mariano
is the Managing Director and Owner of Maximum Global Business, LLC. A
business and technology consulting firm located in Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
He is a technology professional with more than a decade of experience
engineering and designing ERP implementations and multi-platform systems
integrations around Microsoft technologies, and the original project
manager and developer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Spanish version for
Latin America. His primary focus is delivering value through the use of
technology to organizations in the middle and enterprise markets across
the Americas. Mariano holds a Master of Information Systems (MIS) degree
from the University of Phoenix, he is a Project Management Professional
(PMP), a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). Mariano is also one of
the select few Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) for the
Dynamics GP platform. He also holds a Systems Engineering degree from
Universidad Antonio Nariño in his native Colombia and is the author of
one of the most widely followed blogs in the Microsoft Dynamics GP
community, The Dynamics GP Blogster. He is also known for his recent
presentations at the 2009 Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference in
Fargo, ND and 2010 Microsoft Dynamics Convergence in Atlanta, GA, both
events held in the United States. His most recent appearance was at the
Decisions 2010 Spring virtual conference.
2009
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Michael Blatherwick
Michael
was a founder member of AxPact in 2004 and his now the Chairman.
AxPact has a track record for quality delivery of global Microsoft
Dynamics AX solutions. With over 30 members, AxPact brings together the
very best Microsoft Dynamics AX partners from around the globe to work
together in winning and delivering international Dynamics AX solutions.
AxPact members account for over 1200 AX implementations and have a host
of readymade advanced functional solutions for AX which can be accessed
through the AxPact Additions website. As well has Chairing AxPact,
Michael is also the MD of Sense Enterprise Solutions Limited, one of the
longest established and most successful providers of Microsoft Dynamics
AX in the UK and Ireland. Sense were recognised for their excellence in
the AX market place in 2006 when they won the Microsoft EMEA
Convergence award for “Overall Excellence for an AX Implementation” in
conjunction with their client I'Anson Brothers who manufacture animal
feed. Michael has also invested in several strategic vertical markets
and is a non-executive Director and shareholder in two established AX
ISV's, Omnica and Veratem.
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Jurgen Beck
Jurgen
is a holder of a diploma in commerce with specialization in Business
Information Systems. He graduated in 2002 with excellence from the
University of Osnabrück in Germany. In the world of Microsoft
technologies he is certified as a MCP, MCAD, MCSD.NET, MCDBA, MCITP,
MCSE and MCT. He is also certified as MBS Certified Master and CRM
Developer for Microsoft CRM. For his activity on the Microsoft .NET and
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community in Germany he was first awarded with
the Microsoft MVP - Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Visual C#
followed by Microsoft Dynamics CRM. He is the first MVP for a Microsoft
Business Solutions product in Europe. A consultant, trainer, author and
programmer. He was the first MVP for a Microsoft Business Solutions
product in Europe, also a MBS Certified Master. His books have created a
following of over 3000 for his website and blog. Website:
http://www.ComBeck.de
2009 Position 46
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Alex Chow
Alex
is a NAV MVP for the last three years, is the founder of AP Commerce,
Inc. based out of Los Angeles, California in the United States. Alex has
been working with Navision since 1999 and has been involved in more
than one hundred Navision implementations. Started working with large
solution center implementing Navision back in 1999 when there was a mad
rush to be year 2000 compliant. Alex started AP Commerce, Inc. with a
mission to become a service-oriented organization instead of a
sales-oriented organization. AP Commerce has an approach to doing
business that has earned them the trust and respect of the people whom
we are fortunate enough to work with. Since the inception of the
company, Alex has been instrumental in ensuring that AP Commerce has
been able to maintain a 100% customer retention rate.
2009 Position 24
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Eric Wauters
Eric
is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions
www.ifacto.be With his 9 years of technical expertise, he is an
everyday inspiration to its development team. As development manager he
continually acts upon iFacto’s technical readiness and guarantees that
he and iFacto are always on top of the latest Microsoft Dynamics NAV
developments. Apart from that, Eric is also very active in Microsoft
Dynamics NAV community-life where he tries to solve technical issues and
thrives to share his knowledge with other Dynamics NAV enthusiasts.
Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric’s posts on
Mibuso.com, Dynamicsusers.net or his own blog www.waldo.be which he
invariably signs with “waldo”. In 2008, he co-founded the Belgian
Dynamics Community, a platform for all Belgian Dynamics NAV users,
consultants and partners, enabling knowledge sharing and networking. His
proven track record entitled him to be awarded in 2007, 2008, 2009 and
2010 as MVP
2009 Position 71
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Mark Corley
Mark
began his CRM career in KPMG before moving to Microsoft in 2002 where
he became renowned for his work in developing and implementing Dynamics
CRM Software + Services (SaaS) strategies, including product marketing
and management. He built the partner hosting business by training over
650 hosters in 24 countries, doubling active hosters and growing
subscribers by 300%. Mark has pioneered the 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. Mark also launched
CRM 4.0 to channel, including all readiness activities for channel
partners globally. He has now joined CWR Mobility where he is Vice
President for Global Sales and is bringing his CRM knowledge to bare on
their already existing mobile application expertise.
2009 Position 17
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Brandon Kirby
Brandon
worked with Fiserv between 2001 and 2007 where he developed a sales
team and channel for CRM, which since joining iQ4bis as Business
Development Director he has increased its reach. He understands how to
bring out the concepts of the influencers and decision makers to ensure
that he properly qualifies his prospects and increases his chance of
closing his deals. Brandon has been able to bridge the gap for clients
between CRM and BI through the iQ4bis software suite for BI initiatives.
Brandon is a rare sales specialist who has the ability to understand,
demonstrate and deliver BI. Through his team at iQ4bis Brandon has been
able to show the ability to integrate information from an AX ERP system
or CRM System with BI to ensure a strong ROI for clients.
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Jim Glass
Jim
is the community guru, MVP lead, and site manager for the
Microsoft
Dynamics CRM team, he investigates emerging Web technologies and
capabilities in order to provide the advancements to a team that
specializes in customer collaboration and communication. Jim is the
Project Manager in charge of design, implementation and maintenance of a
number of Web properties associated with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM
product group including those on Microsoft.com, CodePlex.com and
MSDN.com. Jim is major contributor to the community, forum, newsgroup,
and is the blog guru for the CRM team. Jim also manages the CRM MVP
program for MVPs worldwide. Somehow Jim is also the inspiration between
Sax On The Web which is mostly a labor of love but equally worthwhile.
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Jens Bach Larsen
Jens
is a partner with JEBALA which is a company providing consultancy
services to the retail and distribution sectors with a strategic focus
on Microsoft Dynamics. Jens is a Microsoft Certified Professional with
17 years Microsoft Dynamics practice and a proven track record in
devising and producing solid software solutions that focus on
simplicity, productivity, core business processes and competitive
advantages for multinational companies including Bang & Olufsen, Boots, Fred Perry, Microsoft
and IBM. Jens is a creator and implementer of visionary and successful
business plans and a trusted provider of strategic counsel. Jens is a
hands-on, multi-lingual and multi-cultural leader adept at building high
performance project teams and organisational units. Skilled at people
development and motivating large teams to work together apart across
challenging geographic, language and cultural divides to achieve planned
goals within precise budgets and time frames.
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Nico Tissink
Nico
was one of the founders of Pulse in 1986. Nico has been involved with
Dynamics AX since it was created working with it, selling it and
implementing it. Nico is now the MD with AXtension selling a powerful
range of solutions for Dynamics AX under the brand AXtension. Nico has
brought together an amazing collection of talents within AXtension and
is renowned for his ability to put the right people together for the
job. This ideal shows through in his other role as a Director of AxPact
which was formed in 2001 to bring together the very best Microsoft
Axapta expertise from around the globe. Nico is also a member of the
steering committee Dutch Branch of IAMCP Partnership; International
Trade and Development industry IAMCP was formed in 1994 to provide
Partners a greater voice into Microsoft and to facilitate mutual growth
and business development.
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