Jeff DeVerter
SharePoint Team Lead, Rackspace Hosting
Jeff has been working with SharePoint since 2003 and has been involved in the following disciplines within SharePoint: System Planning and Architecture/SharePoint Governance and Taxonomy/SharePoint end user development/SharePoint Security Planning and Implementation/SharePoint Training.

Jeff was hired by Rackspace to build their SharePoint hosting product which centers on world-class SharePoint system administration. In the process of defining and launching the product, Jeff consulted with and maintains relationships with industry experts like Shane Young, Joel Oleson, Todd Klindt, and Mathew McDermott. Since Rackspace began offering SharePoint as a supported product, Jeff has either been directly involved or overseen the installation of over 234 SharePoint installations of various sizes.

Before joining Rackspace, Jeff worked with Fortune 100 Financial Services companies including World Savings (Golden West Financial) and USAA (United Services Automobile Association) where he worked as an Enterprise Architect over Collaboration and Enterprise Search. Jeff coordinated and managed the deployment of MOSS 2007 to 25,000 employees at USAA.

Kevin Docherty
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Workshare
As a Product Marketing Manager for Workshare, Kevin is responsible for understanding customer requirements and bringing Workshare's document collaboration solutions to market. Prior to Workshare, Kevin previously worked for large blue-chip organizations such as Cable & Wireless and Accenture. Kevin holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from Queen Mary, University of London.

Michael Doyle
MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, Senior Architect, Waggener Edstrom
Currently Michael is working as a Senior Architect for Waggener Edstrom, one of the leading PR companies with offices around the world. Michael has been working almost exclusively with SharePoint for the last eight years. He has been in the software arena professionally for the last 20 years and has worked for companies such as A-dec, Fedex, Intel, NETWARCOM, Deloitte and Touche, HCA, Vanderbilt, and others. Michael has done consulting, writing, teaching, and professional software development. He got his B.E. and M.S. from Vanderbilt University.

Ryan Duguid
Senior Product Manager, ECM and Compliance, Microsoft
Ryan is a Senior Product Manager in the Office Business Platform Marketing Group at Microsoft, where he is responsible for SharePoint Enterprise Content Management. Ryan moved to Redmond from Microsoft New Zealand where he was a Technology Specialist responsible for evangelizing the Microsoft Office system.

Steve Fox
Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism for SharePoint, Microsoft
Steve has worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a number of different technologies including natural language, search, social computing, and more recently Office and SharePoint development. He is Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism for SharePoint and regularly speaks to developers about Office and SharePoint development. He has spoken at several conferences, contributed to technical publications, and co-wrote a number of books including Professional Office Business Application Development: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VSTO (WROX) and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (WROX).

Richard Harbridge
Senior SharePoint Evangelist, Allin Consulting
Over the past 7 years Richard has worked extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst, and consultant. In this time he defined, architected, developed, and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations.

Dan Holme
Microsoft MVP, Chief SharePoint Evangelist, AvePoint
As AvePoint's Chief SharePoint Evangelist, Dan utilizes both his expertise in Microsoft technologies and proven experience solving customers' IT business challenges to educate the global SharePoint community, as well as develop solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms.

A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dan spent 17 years as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. In addition to earning the prestigious title of Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2011), Dan is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro magazines as well as the community lead of SharePointProMag.com. Dan's two most recent Microsoft books—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are regular bestsellers in their category. He also contributed to the Microsoft Official Curriculum for SharePoint 2010, and penned the SharePoint 2010 Training Kit for Microsoft Press. Prior to joining AvePoint, Dan founded Intelliem, a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. He was also a founding partner of Aptillon, a consulting and development firm created by seven of the world's top SharePoint MVPs.

Saaid Khan
Program Manager, Microsoft
Saaid is a Program Manager in the Visual Studio team. He worked on the first version of SharePoint Developer tools in Visual Studio 2010 and continues to do so for the next version of Visual Studio and SharePoint.

Martin Muldoon
Director of Product Marketing, BA Insight
Martin is the Director of Product Marketing at BA Insight, where he leads company's product marketing strategy worldwide. As a co-founder of BA Insight, Martin has extensive experience in the Enterprise Search space with a particular focus on Microsoft Search technologies. Prior to that, while working at Suez, a global power utility company, Martin was awarded the Suez Innovation Award for the search based application he developed for company's Environmental division.

Martin is a frequent speaker in the community and shares his extensive expertise in enterprise search technologies at various key conferences including TechEd, KM World, AIIM and others. Martin also spent a few years as an independent consultant leading deployment of various ERP systems. The firsthand experience of seeing users struggle accessing information from ERP, CRM, and messaging systems was the inspiration behind BA-Insight's unique approach to integrated search on top of FAST and SharePoint Search.

Michelle Salazar
Technical Specialist, K2
Michelle is a Technical Specialist and lead technology evangelist at K2 traveling North America teaching IT and Business professionals about ways their organizations can improve through Business Process Automation. With over 12 years' experience in the roles of Developer, Lead Engineer, and Architect, Michelle's technical expertise includes both web and enterprise-level software systems using Microsoft Technologies.

Randy Williams
Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist, AvePoint
As AvePoint Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist, Randy works directly with enterprise customers to deliver and implement solutions that will help unleash SharePoint's full business potential, as well as share proven practices with the SharePoint community through speaking engagements and appearances at global conferences.

Randy has 20 years of IT experience and his focus for the last 14 is architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. Randy writes for SharePointPro and Windows IT Pro magazines and has his latest book SharePoint 2010 Administration Instant Reference coming out in June 2011. He has a master's degree in Information Systems along with a number of Microsoft certifications. From 2009–2011, he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SharePoint. Randy is a frequent speaker at global conferences and currently lives in San Diego.