Bob Mixon has been involved in the technology industry for the better part of 30 years.  He has learned the science and art of Enterprise Information Architecture and Solution Implementation through schooling and “real world” implementation experience.  Experienced in architecting and implemented both small and large-scale Business Systems, Information Asset Management Systems, Document Management Solutions, Corporate Intranets, Extranets and Internet facing sites.

Brandon is a Principal Technology Specialist at K2, and has a diverse background that ranges from co-directing technology related content for nationally syndicated television and radio shows, to leading development teams in the manufacturing and supply chain management space. As a Software Architect for the last 10 years, Brandon has helped companies leverage technology to solve unique industry related business process and automation challenges. He has been with K2 for the past four years.

Brian Alderman has his Master's in Computer Information Systems. Since 1995, he has held several major Microsoft certifications that currently include; MCT, MCITP for SharePoint 2010, MCITP for SQL Server(R), MCSA and MCSE for Windows Server(R), and also his PMP certification. As a Senior Technical Instructor and Consultant he has nearly 15 years of experience in networking, SQL Server databases, SharePoint technologies, and project management. Brian's publications include Windows 2000 Professional, SQL Server 2000 Administration and the Microsoft Press SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion. He is an active speaker at SharePoint Industry conferences including SharePoint Saturday's and the SharePoint Best Practices Conferences.

Chris McNulty oversees SharePoint Solutions at Quest Software. He’s a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTSP programs. A frequent speaker at events around the globe, Chris is the author of the “SharePoint 2010 Consultant’s Handbook – Managed Metadata Service” and blogs at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and at http://www.sharepointforall.com.  Prior to Quest, Chris led the SharePoint consulting practice at KMA, a Boston based Microsoft Gold Partner.   He holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology with John Hancock, State Street, GMO and Santander. He lives with his wife Hayley, and his family in Milton, Massachusetts, USA.

Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare, Chris Riley is a pure Technologist and recognized industry expert in document recognition, ECM, Cloud Computing, and analytics technologies. Chris lives and breathes technology and has been helping companies buy, use, and optimize advanced technologies given their business process and use case. Chris’s focus on market education has helped expose underlying problems in the acquisition and use of advanced technology and has helped both end-users and vendors mitigate the challenges to achieving ultimate success. Riley has 12 years experience in this arena, owned three software companies, and obtained several technology and business awards. He has degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, and Mathematics, and holds certifications from the enterprise content management (ECM) trade organization AIIM as “Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp)”, “Information, Organization, and Access Practitioner (IOAp)” and “Capture Practitioner”. Mr. Riley is a sought after speaker, and educator throughout the content gathering and delivery space.

Christian Buckley is a SharePoint MVP, an internationally recognized author and speaker, and Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives product awareness and both partner and community development. He previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of Office365), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with some of the world’s largest hi-tech and manufacturing companies to build and deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of ‘Creating and Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Real-World Projects’ (MSPress),  three books on software configuration management and defect tracking, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet

Elmer is the founder and CEO of CloudBits, an Office 365-focused software company. He previously worked as a Partner with Phenom where he lead the technical delivery of numerous SharePoint consulting projects and played a lead technical role in a Fortune 100 deployment to Office 365 (formerly BPOS-D). Prior to Phenom, Elmer spent many years as a Sr. Architect with Avanade (a joint venture from Microsoft and Accenture) where he focused on enterprise collaboration and social computing.

Over the years, Elmer has contributed design and code to SharePoint projects for Microsoft, American Express, World Vision, Accenture and many others.

Elmer lives with his wife and children in Southern California, enjoys bike riding, gourmet food and the occasional huge pile of chicken wings.

Eric Overfield is a leading expert in SharePoint Branding and web based user interface design. Mr. Overfield, President and co-founder of PixelMill, has over 13 years experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 8 years experience with SharePoint branding. Besides his in-depth knowledge SharePoint’s branding capabilities, he has expertise includes general SharePoint technology, design and architecture along with custom coded web parts, solutions, javascript, HTML5 and CSS 3. He resides in Davis, California.

 With over 15 years of IT experience, Garth Luke, Vice President of Sales of AvePoint,Inc and General Manager of AvePoint Australia, began his IT career working for Microsoft in 1996 before moving on to a consulting role with Siemens Business Services where he became MSCE and MCP certified in addition to cultivating a deep expertise in back office consulting, implementation, development, SQL programming, and infrastructure implementations. With more than a decade of experience in the technology sector, Garth joined AvePoint in 2008, and has lead sales, marketing & Technical Pre-Sales activities in EMEA, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, helping accelerate the adoption of SharePoint as well as AvePoint’s infrastructure management & Governance solutions. His contributions to the SharePoint community have earned him multiple speaking opportunities at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups throughout North America, EMEA, Australia, and New Zealand.

Ivan Sanders is an independent consultant with more than 15 years of broad-based hands-on experience with the design and development of mission-critical applications and innovative information management strategies in the enterprise deployment of Microsoft products, and delivering nothing but Microsoft SharePoint solutions since 2004. Ivan is active in the SharePoint Community through the MSDN and TechNet forums, TechEd and PDC Birds of a Feather, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint ShopTalk, SharePoint Intelligence Conference, SharePointConnections, INETA, GITCA, and Local Southern California User Groups. Ivan can be found bi-weekly on SharePoint ShopTalk or http://twitter.com/iasanders, http://www.linkedin.com/in/iasanders, https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Ivan.Sanders http://msmvps.com/blog/ivansanders.

Josh has made a career on the front lines diagnosing business pains and alleviating them with technology. As the Sales Manager for SurfRay Inc., Josh has worked with global clients such as the American Bar Association, Best Buy, Intel, the U.S Coast Guard, and Conoco Phillips to build solutions to business problems through expertly designed search solutions for SharePoint, based on SurfRay’s powerful Ontolica® software.

Kenneth Lo, PMP is the Chief Strategist of Kattelo Consulting which provides professional services to companies of all sizes adopting SharePoint technologies. Kenneth is a battle-tested SharePoint evangelist and entrepreneur with extensive management consulting experiences. His clientele ranges from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kenneth combines his passion and expertise in mobile technologies and specializes in SharePoint mobility strategies and adoption.
Being a risk-averse person at heart, Kenneth spends his leisure time mountain biking, rock climbing, and scuba diving. You can follow him on Twitter at @klopmp

Kim Frehe is a no-code Solutions Specialist who has been solving complex business problems with SharePoint since 2001.  She has recently joined the consulting world with Rightpoint Consulting after spending 13 years at Accenture, supporting their Global Business Travel and Facilities & Services teams by creating innovative SharePoint solutions to support various business processes.  She is very passionate about SharePoint and prides herself on building solutions with the end users’ perspective in mind.   Her specialties include workflows, content types, out-of-the-box web parts and making SharePoint as user-friendly as possible to help users be more productive, efficient and get the most of SharePoint.

Mayank Malik (MCITP) is a SharePoint Architect and Evangelist with over 10 years of experience in software development. His expertise includes SharePoint technology, products, design and architecture along with ASP.NET, IIS, SQL Server, Windows Server, and other core technologies upon which SharePoint server depends.

I am Senior Architect as Waggener Edstrom and have been working with SharePoint almost exclusively for over 9 years now. Frequent speaker, blogger and author of MS Press book “Customizing My Site in SharePoint 2010”. SharePoint always provides challenges for me but also gives me the tools to provide real world business solutions. When I am not doing SharePoint I like to go white water kayaking and enjoy the beach.

Miles is the founder and president of New Idea Engineering, Inc. He is consultant, author, speaker, and industry leader with more than 20 years of experience in enterprise search. Known in the industry as a trusted neutral adviser, he has coined the phrase, “We [NIE] are the Switzerland of Enterprise Search”. Prior to NIE, he founded and held the position of President / CEO of SearchButton.Com, the first 'cloud' enterprise search. He is a co-author of the recently published book under Wrox titled: Professional Microsoft Search; FAST Search, SharePoint Search and Search Server. You can read his blogs at http://www.enterprisesearchblog.com, and he hosts the “Ask Dr. Search” forum. Miles received his BA from Tulane University and did graduate work in computer science at Purdue University. In his free time, he enjoys being a pilot, and flies small planes.

Nedra Allmond has been working with SharePoint since 2006.  She is a MCTS whose background includes working with the Department of Defense, the aerospace, biotech, telecommunications and media/entertainment industries, as well as non-profit organizations.  She has been described as a User Advocate and has been involved with the SharePoint community as co-chair of SPSLA, co-founder of the San Fernando Valley SPUG and Western Regional representative of Women in SharePoint.  Nedra presently is a Senior Technical Consultant with Perficient, Inc.  Nedra is a newbie gardener on her way to master class.

Owen Allen is the VP Solutions for Pingar, a SharePoint ISV partner that is based in New Zealand.  Owen has been working with content management applications since 1994, and has been looking for the right way to entice information workers to tag their documents with metadata for much of the past 13 years.  He has given out thousands of candy bars to try to make this happen, but that is not a scalable solution.  Owen is a co-founder of the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group, and worked at Microsoft as a Technical Sales Professional and as a Sr. Product Manager. Owen has worked with SharePoint and its customers and partners since 2004. (owen.allen@pingar.com, @owenallen)

Paul Yantus is an Enterprise Content Management veteran with over 20 years of industry experience.  Prior to founding Vizit Paul was Executive Vice President at Captaris where he led all product related functions. Paul previously held positions including CEO Scan-Optics, Senior Vice President MSX International, and began his career with the Eastman Kodak company.

Phil Jirsa has been developing business applications for the web since 1999. He began developing with .NET in 2001 and SharePoint technologies in 2004. Phil began consulting in 2007, focusing on clients in the Twin Cities and upper Midwest area. He has been a speaker at numerous community training events and user groups.

With over 20 years of IT experience, Randy Williams is an expert in architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. Randy has worked with SMB and enterprise organizations throughout North America and Asia. He is also active in the SharePoint community, running .NET and SharePoint user groups in Hawaii, Singapore and San Diego. Randy currently works for AvePoint as an Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist. At AvePoint, Randy works directly with enterprise customers and partners to deliver and implement solutions that help unleash Microsoft SharePoint’s full business potential. He also shares proven practices with the SharePoint community and provides thought leadership through speaking engagements at global conferences. A contributor to SharePointPro and Windows IT Pro magazines, Randy’s latest book, SharePoint 2010 Administration Instant Reference, was released in June of 2011. Randy is a SharePoint MVP alum, having been awarded from 2009-2011 and is now working towards his MCM. He currently resides in San Diego, CA.

Raymond Mitchell is a SharePoint Consultant at Rackspace, based near Minneapolis, MN.  He has over 10 years of IT experience and has worked with every version of SharePoint since its release as SharePoint Team Services.  Since 2004 he has helped coordinate and speak at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group.  He has also been a speaker at the Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and St. Louis SharePoint User Groups, as well as at several SharePoint Camps and SharePoint Saturday events.  Raymond wrote a Wrox Blox on Building Dashboards with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using SharePoint Designer 2007 and contributed two chapters on the BCS to SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One.  He also blogs under the alias IWKID on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office development.

I serve as a primary technical resource for our worldwide sales force, ensuring the success of 40-plus prospects every week. I am a SharePoint expert and work with other IT professionals to improve their SharePoint environment.
Prior to Axceler, I was a SharePoint consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), specializing in custom SharePoint development.

Zlatan currently works for Hitachi Consulting as a Senior Manager based in California with work experience ranging across four different continents, he also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management and Business Intelligence product and solution background. Most of his career he spent as an Enterprise Strategist, Resource Manager, Technical Lead/System Architect as well as Project Manager or a Best Practices Consultant on large Enterprise Content Management projects and Enterprise Strategy Initiatives, involved from conceptualizing and creating initiatives to getting down and dirty.

His main focus is Developing and Architecting Enterprise Content Management, Document and Records Management, Communities of Practice (Social Networking for Business) including Business Process Management, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions focusing on full blown end to end enterprise industry solutions.

As an internationally recognized SharePoint and ECM technology expert he's a regular speaker at major Microsoft and SharePoint Conferences worldwide and he also presents at Local Community events on the topics of Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business