Sarju Raja, AvePoint Director of Operations in EMEA

Sarju Raja is the Director of Operations for AvePoint, EMEA. With over 10 years experience in the technology sector, Sarju has extensive knowledge of SQL programming and Microsoft Technologies. Sarju joined AvePoint in 2008 as a Senior Systems Engineer for the EMEA market. In early 2009, Sarju assumed leadership of AvePoint’s EMEA headquarters, where he works to accelerate market delivery of AvePoint’s solutions and promote SharePoint adoption throughout the region. For several years, Sarju has spoken and presented at technology conferences and industry symposiums throughout Europe.

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Agnes Molnar, SharePoint MVP

Agnes has been working with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2001. After releasing MOSS 2007, she founded L&M Solutions, her own SharePoint consultant company in Hungary, Central Europe. She’s been working as senior consultant and solutions architect, has leaded numerous Central European companies’ SharePoint implementation. Agnes’s main focus is on Architecture, Governance and Office Business Applications (OBAs).

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Aleš Manfreda

Aleš is studying at the faculty of electrical engineering Maribor. In 2006 he started working for MRI d.o.o.. He spent most of his time dealing with SharePoint, Active Directory and MS Exchange. One of his key assignments is migrating from File Shares to SharePoint. Apart from SharePoint migrations he is working on Active Directory migrations/consolidations, Exchange mailbox and server migrations/consolidations, manage SharePoint environments and preparing usage statistics about SharePoint. 

Andrew Woodward, SharePoint MVP

Andrew Woodward (MVP) is founder and Principal Consultant at 21apps, a small consultancy with an emphasis on providing community support and expert consultancy around the expanding SharePoint platform. Andrew’s day job is usually as Technical Architect / Development Lead for large SharePoint projects. Andrew has been involved in development since starting his career and is passionate about agile development, covering every aspect from introducing agile management techniques like Scrum to the technical challenges of unit testing and developer adoption. Andrew is an advocate of community collaboration and speaks regularly at the User Groups and Conferences and helps others through his blog. Andrew has also taken on the challenge of providing developer courses for Combined Knowledge to help other people get the most from their SharePoint development and to help people through the challenges this can bring.
 

Andrew’s blog

Claudio Brotto, SharePoint MVP

Claudio is a SharePoint developer based in Bologna (Italy). His main areas of expertise range from low-level platform development (C/C++/COM) to application analysis and design, using the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early days of beta 1. During the last years, his focus has moved from raw application development to higher level solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Nowadays he's involved in consulting and training services on SharePoint projects that his company, Green Team, is delivering to local and worldwide customers. He's a regular speaker in SharePoint events and conferences. In 2009 Microsoft recognized him the MVP award for SharePoint Services.
 

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Daniel McPherson

Daniel “Point2Share” McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas (http://www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before.
 

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Janko Štefančič

Janko Štefančič, CTO of Genis d.o.o., has many years of experience in project management obtained with a series of successful projects in the field of innovative e-Business solutions implementation. In his spare time he is an enthusiastic user of online technologies (web 2.0, social networking) which inspire him with ideas for new solutions in the field of e-business. He is an expert in the introduction of modern concepts of re-engineering of information systems, project management and business process management, as well as the introduction of SOA into the leading Slovenian companies and public sector.

Jernej Suhadolc

Jernej Suhadolc, developer and a consultant has been doing implementations of modern IT tools for more than 25 years. He’s always trying to improve business processes and make them more effective. He’s a CEO and co-founder of Virtua, d.o.o..

Matjaž Perpar

Matjaž Perpar is working for the Microsoft Slovenia since 2004. He is a consultant for information workers in the Microsoft Services team. Last 3 years he is a consultant for companies using SharePoint technologies. In his professional carrier he participates in many different projects regarding development and infrastructure.

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Mike Gannotti

Michael has worked at Microsoft as a SharePoint Technology Specialist since SharePoint’s launch in 2001. A well known advocate of socialmedia, Michael has also worked as Corporate Systems Architect for Vanguard Mutual Funds in PA, Instructional Web Designer for Intracorp in PA, Family Preservation Case Manager for Florence Crittenton Services in WV, Language Arts Instructor for 8 years in CA, and is a former US Army Sergeant. You can visit Michael on his website at http://socialmedia.mikegannotti.com.

Mike's blog

Toni Frankola

Toni Frankola (MCT, MCTS, MCBSS, MCSD) - started his Web adventure in late 90’s and has been working with various web technologies ever since. Currently he is leading project engagements and managing a team of consultants specializing in Microsoft technologies. His primary focus is on Microsoft Office SharePoint and Dynamics CRM. He works at Perpetuum Mobile, a Microsoft Gold Partner. Toni is author of SharePoint Use Cases (www.sharepointusecases.com) and co-author of End User SharePoint (www.endusersharepoint.com). In last three years he has delivered a number of sessions focusing on SharePoint implementations on various IT events in Croatia.
 

Toni's blog

Uroš Žunič

Uroš Žunič works at Kompas Xnet d.o.o as  developer and  instructor. He started customizing Office applications with Office 2000 version and has done  a lot of VBA or .NET Office developemnt since. Currently he spends a majority of his time exploring SharePoint 2007 and the upcoming new version of SharePoint 2010.

Zlatan Džinić, SharePoint MVP

Zlatan's primary role is an Enterprise Content Management Lead, System Architect/Lead Developer and an Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Architecture Consultant, he also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management product background (including Business Intelligence), working, providing solutions and managing projects for the Public Sector (Local, Provincial and National Government) and also Corporate Sector (Mining, Retail, Telecommunications, Oil, Manufacturing, Banking and Tourism Industry) with a strong Business and Technical background, working as a Technical Lead/System Architect as well as Project Manager or a Best Practices Consultant on large Enterprise Content Management projects and Enterprise Strategy Initiatives.

His main focus is Developing and Architecting Enterprise Content Management (Document and Records Management), including Business Process Management, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions as well as Office Business Applications (full blown end to end enterprise industry solutions).

He's a guest speaker at International and National Microsoft Conferences and he also presents at Local Community events on the topics of Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business Applications.
 

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