Adriaan van Wyk, chief executive officer - K2
Adriaan is a co-founder of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. He assumed his current position upon inception in 1997.

 

Adriaan has a degree in accounting and a post-graduate degree in information systems (computer science). He likes to bring together his two loves: technology and business.

 

When not at work, he can be found indulging in sports — cycling, running, swimming, mountain climbing — or listening to music, reading and, most importantly, spending time with his kids.

Christian Stich was program manager on the Excel Services team for the 2007 and 2010 releases of Excel Services/SharePoint Server.  He led the effort to add new programmability capabilities to the latest version of Excel Services which includes the entirely new REST API and JavaScript Object Models.

Mr. Stich is in the process of setting up his own consulting practice with a focus on Excel Services. 

Mr. Stich holds an MBA in Finance from Rice University and a Masters in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Gideon Bibliowicz is a Microsoft Product Manager, currently serving as the all-up TDM audience-lead on the SharePoint product group, focused on the launch of SharePoint 2010. Prior to joining Microsoft, Gideon graduated with an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, with a concentration in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

Greg Chan is a Microsoft Program Manager for SharePoint.  He has been working at Microsoft for eight years and is currently contributing to the SharePoint and SharePoint Designer teams focusing on data integration, data visualization, list views, SPD page editor and SharePoint community efforts.

Joel Oleson is a SharePoint evangelist and a Senior Product Manager for Quest Software where he is guiding the strategy of the SharePoint group and is working on new designs for tools to help IT administrators. Joel previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Technical Product Manager for SharePoint. He designed the first Microsoft intranet global deployment of SharePoint, as well as the extranet collaboration and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Joel was a Senior Web Engineer at a large telecom organization.

John Peltonen is Senior Vice-President of Software Development at 3Sharp.  In this role he sets the strategic goals, direction and vision for 3Sharp’s development teams and products. 

 

Fresh from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, John is coming to SharePoint Saturday prepared!  He and his team have been working with SharePoint and Office 2010 for over a year.

 

Mr. Peltonen sits on the Microsoft Office Developer Advisory Committee, the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Developer Advisory Committee as well as the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS/V1). 

 

John’s company, 3Sharp, is focused on creating innovative SharePoint Solutions, such as the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint.  You can learn more at www.3sharp.com

 

Ken Efta is a co-founder and Principal Consultant at Allyis, Inc. in Kirkland, WA. He has worked for almost 15 years in various technology focuses, including Content Management and Publishing Solutions, Data Management and Business Intelligence, and Collaboration and Social Software solutions. Most recently he has been focused on social solutions in Health Services.

Martin Tuip has more than a decade of IT experience and focuses on archiving and compliance products. He is the webmaster of some the world's largest user communities for SharePoint and Exchange and writes on one of the few archiving software dedicated blogs at http://www.archiving101.com.  Martin is a published author, a 9-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server and currently works as the Sr technical product marketing manager for Mimosa Systems and lives in the beautiful, but wet Washington State.

Nicholas Carr, Enterprise Account Executive, OEM Accounts
Nicholas Carr is an Enterprise Account Executive – OEM Accounts, and works from the company’s San Jose, CA office. Having worked for many years with enterprise-level Microsoft SharePoint deployments, Nick has a long record of ensuring seamless integration of AvePoint’s solutions into complex, large-scale environments. His knowledge of SharePoint backup and management strategies has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within the SharePoint community and at technical tradeshows and events. In addition to managing AvePoint’s OEM relationships with IBM and NetApp, Nick’s clients include Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Booze Allen Hamilton.

Nick Dallett is a lead program manager for Microsoft InfoPath. Before moving to the Office team, Nick was a lead developer for Windows Update.

Quentin Christensen is a Program Manager on the SharePoint Enterprise Content Management team with a focus on Document Management and Records Management. For SharePoint 2010 he has worked on several new features including Document Sets, Document ID, and Location Based Defaults. He is also driving guidance for developing large libraries with SharePoint 2010.

With over 20 years of experience within the Information Technology field, Rob D’Oria has architected, developed, and implemented ECM solutions for some of the largest companies in the world. He is also considered a ECM and BPM SME within the Financial Services and Healthcare verticals.

Trevor Hellebuyck is a solutions architect and operations manager with over 14 years experience in the information technology field with a focus on architecting and implementing large-scale SharePoint-based solutions.  He also specializes in EAI, BPM and enterprise reporting solutions.