- Ray Ozzie
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- Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, "Intentional Software", with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of Intentional programming. In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. His estimated net worth is $1 billion.
- Brad Silverberg
Brad is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in software, infrastructure, and consumer companies. Brad represents Ignition as director on the boards of GlobalScholar, Seven, SourceLabs, and ice.com. Prior to founding Ignition, Brad is best known as an industry pioneer who built the Microsoft Windows franchise and led Microsoft's Internet turnaround.
- Scott Isaacs
Scott Isaacs is a developer for Microsoft Corporation who is best known for the development of Dynamic HTML (DHTML), which is at the core of what is commonly termed Ajax. Scott has been at Microsoft since 1993 and has helped define many early technologies. He worked on the first ActiveX Control, helped create the forms package in Office, defined many web standards, and is now driving the architecture for Gadgets and frameworks driving Windows Live.
- Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf (born November 8, 1918) is a prolific German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Zapf's work has suffered the two-edged sword of veneration, as his designs, which include Palatino and Optima, have been perhaps the most widely admired - and plagiarized - of any of the twentieth century. The best known example of this being Monotype's Book Antiqua, …
- Eric Hahn
Eric Hahn is an American entrepreneur who started Collabra Software in 1992. Collabra was an early e-mail-based groupware company. Netscape acquired Collabra in 1995. In 1997 Eric became Netscape's CTO. According to SEC filings Hahn netted approximately $29 million from sales in Netscape stock. Hahn is also the creator of Lookout Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2004. Mr. Hahn currently lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and two sons, …
- Lisa Rachjel
Lisa Rachjel is the current secretary of the ISO Joint Technical Committee Secretariat. In March of 2007, she gained visibility after participating in the decision that the comments from several national bodies under the ISO Fast-Track Administrative Review period did not require ISO secretariat intervention, and consequently that Ecma's Open XML standards proposal could continue on in the standards process.
- Peter J. Quinn
Peter J. Quinn, an information technology (IT) worker, is the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a role he held from September 2002 through January 2006. He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument, a standard format for office documents (draft ISO/IEC 26300). Mr Quinn established a requirement that all state government documents be formatted in OpenDocument (effective 2007).
- Joanne Gobure
Joanne Ekamdeiya Gobure (b. April 26, 1982, in Nauru) is a Nauruan poet. She is the cousin of Nauruan tennis player Chris Gobure, who played in the South Pacific Games with Paner Baguga and others. Gobure was born in Denigomodu and is living in a district of Uaboe. She attended schools of Nibok, Aiwo and Yaren and graduated with the Nauru Junior Certificate. Since 2003 Gobure has worked mainly as a teacher at Nauru College. She was employed by the director of the school, …
- Amanda Ginther
Amanda Ginther is an Account Coordinator with the T-Mobile team. She joined Waggener Edstrom Worldwide in 2006 as a coordinator on the Rapid Response Team, handling reactive media relations for Microsoft, Starbucks, AMD and T-Mobile. Since joining WEW, she supported the nationwide launches of T-Mobile HotSpot @Home, Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. Before joining the agency, Amanda worked as a grassroots organizer for candidate and issue campaigns.
- Jeff Raikes
Jeff Raikes , President, Microsoft Business Division As president of the Microsoft Business Division, Jeff Raikes oversees the Information Worker Group and the Microsoft Business Solutions Group. This division delivers software and software-based services that maximize the impact that an organization's key assets, their people, have on both structured and unstructured business activities, thereby amplifying business success.
- Alan Petchey
Alan Fox - I.T. Specialist Alan has worked since he was 18, initially training as a Quantity Surveyor, before moving into I.T. after 12 months. Alan joined Greenall Whitley in 1977 as a mainframe operator and became a programmer 12 months later. Following 10 years of programming and business systems analysis on IBM mainframe computers, Alan moved over to IBM AS400 mid-range systems within the company and became support manager for a team of five support specialists.
- Lee Allan Sanders
Lee Allan Sanders Lee Allan Sanders of Felton named PROFILE's March Member- of-the-Month in recognition of his outstanding contributions both as a Director of the Marketing Department and as a certified Workshop Trainer and Facilitator. Lee has been a member of this volunteer networking organization for professionals since January 2005. Lee has a portfolio of proven marketing and training programs that he designed and delivered both domestically and internationally.
- Jeff Teper
Jeff Teper , Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform Microsoft Jeff Teper , Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform Microsoft will deliver a keynote address on Wednesday, April 18 at 10:00 AM. As corporate vice president of the Office SharePoint Server Group at Microsoft, Teper is responsible for Office SharePoint Server and its portal, content management, search and line-of-business integration technologies.
- Jeff Martignon
Jeff Martignon , Principal Consultant - for the last two years with BlueGranite, Jeff has focused on building the company’s expertise with Collaboration solutions focused on Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007. Jeff graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Computer Engineering and was President of Triangle Engineering Fraternity.
- Jared Spataro
Jared Spataro , Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Office Servers, Information Worker PMG, Microsoft Spencer Shearer, Senior Technical Director, Exalead
- Darnel Degand
Darnel Degand is an experienced multimedia designer and developer. A sampling of the varied projects in his portfolio include the design of numerous 2D and 3D graphics for use in instructional design tools, presentations, interactive multimedia, online advertisements, websites, advertisements and other print pieces.
- Angus Logan
Angus Logan Technology Specialist for Microsoft Angus Logan is a Technology Specialist for Microsoft focusing on SharePoint Technologies - but in July is joining the Windows Live Platform team as a Product Manager. Prior to joining Microsoft Angus worked for several Microsoft Gold Partners and was also an MVP for Content Management Server. Angus co-authored a book "Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server" with other Microsoft employees and Content Management Server MVPs.
- Rob Dolin
Rob Dolin , Program Manager, Windows Live Social Networking - Microsoft - Rob Dolin is a Program Manager on the Windows Live Experience Social Networking team which produces Windows Live Spaces, a blogging, photo sharing, and social networking web service, as well as Windows Live Writer, a cross-platform blog entry authoring application. Mr. Dolin’s feature areas include Search, Homepage, and Notifications.
- Pete Higgins
Pete Higgins has served as a director of HouseValues since April 2004. He is a founding partner of Second Avenue Partners, one of Seattle's most experienced teams providing management, strategy and capital to early stage companies. Prior to founding Second Avenue Partners, Mr. Higgins spent 16 years at Microsoft Corporation. Most notably, Mr. Higgins was a member of the Office of the President, reporting to CEO Bill Gates.
- Elizabeth Funk
Elizabeth Funk is the Chairman of the Board of Unitus (www.unitus.com), a microfinance accelerator, and the founder of the Dignity Fund (www.dignityfund.com), a microfinance investment vehicle. Until early 2007, Ms. Funk served as the President and CEO of CML Global Capital, a diversified international investment firm. Prior to joining CML, Ms. Funk was an early employee of Yahoo! , where she founded the Yahoo!
- Brian A. Randell
Brian Randell Senior Consultant MCW Technologies, LLC Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC Over the last 18 years, Brian has worked with companies and their developers to help the create solutions that leverage various Microsoft technologies. Today Brian splits up his time teaching Microsoft .
- Steven Sinofsky
Steven Sinofsky is an employee of Microsoft. He "is the senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group — the user experience of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live services. The group is responsible for the development of Windows Vista technologies, including user interface, device support, graphics and media as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer; the group delivers Windows Live services experiences, including Windows Live Hotmail, …
- Ken Getz
Ken Getz Ken Getz is an instructor and courseware author for AppDev, teaching their VB, Access, and XML classes. He's also a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, and a Microsoft Solution Provider specializing in custom application development with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products. Ken wrote several of the add-ins that ship with Microsoft Office 2000 Developer.
- Gaspar Torriero
- Tamar E. Granor
Tamar E. Granor , Ph.D. , has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000, and is co-author of the magazine’s popular Advisor Answers column. Tamar is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe.
- Brian Arbogast
Brian Arbogast is corporate vice president of the MSN Communications Platform group in the MSN� and Personal Services Division at Microsoft. His teams are responsible for developing the core technology delivered across MSN communications services, including mail, calendar, contacts, instant messaging, and VOIP functionality.
- Mark Peterson
- Dawn Bjork Buzbee
Dawn Bjork Buzbee , The Software Pro ® , knows how to take the hard out of software. With over 23 years experience as an independent software trainer , speaker , consultant , writer, video author, and problem-solver, Dawn simplifies complex processes with a warm, friendly, and extremely knowledgeable manner.
- Karen Drebes
Karen Drebes Karen Drebes , owner and president of Source for Sources, Inc., offers over 30 years experience in the business world. A certified Master Virtual Assistant from International Association of Virtual Office Assistants.
- Ron Belanger
Ron Belanger is the Senior Director of Channel Strategy and Development at Yahoo! Search Marketing and joined the company in September 2005. His role is to serve as an expert resource for clients and agencies looking to maximize the efficiency of their performance marketing infrastructure, and effectively incorporate search marketing into their overall marketing mix. Prior to joining Yahoo!
- Bob Muglia
Bob Muglia Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation Bob Muglia is Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business (STB), a part of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. STB is chartered to deliver Microsoft’s unique vision for information technology professionals and developers: ""Empower People across the IT Lifecycle through Integrated Software Innovation."
- John Zagula
John is a founding partner of Qiming Venture Partners, a Shanghai, China venture capital firm focused on investments in early stage ventures in China and formed in partnership with Ignition Partners. He is also partner at Ignition Partners, a Bellevue, Washington venture capital firm focused on investments in software and communications technology. John represents Qiming as director on the board of PPStream and Captiv8, and as an observer on the board of Touch Media.
- Darrin Bishop
Darrin Bishop is an author, speaker and developer focusing on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Darrin is the president and lead developer for Darrin Bishop Group, Inc. a Midwest-based Microsoft Partner focusing on SharePoint Technologies, portals and collaboration. He is the author of The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts published by Rational Press as well as several articles in various magazines and frequently speaks at user groups and conferences.
- Donna Johnston
Donna Johnston - Administrative Services Officer Donna Johnston joined the department in April 2004 as the Administrative Services Officer, and is responsible for the fiscal responsibilities of the department as well as managing the Operations team.
- Sandy Angevine
Sandy Angevine Divisional VP, Marketing, ADP Small Business Services Sandy Angevine is Division Vice President of Marketing for ADP® Small Business Services (SBS), the unit of the ADP Employer Services Group that provides payroll, HR and benefit administration services to Accountants and Small Businesses with one to 49 employees. In this role, she is responsible for Product marketing and Strategy, Business Development and overall market strategy to drive the growth of ADP SBS.
- Tim Walker
Tim Walker is Director of Technology for the McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership. He oversees all technology-related initiatives including training, technical assistance, program development, instructional design, and the delivery of courses and workshops. As part of his role, he teaches traditional classroom, hybrid/blended, and online technology courses for NLU. He is also a frequent presenter at many local, state, and national conferences.
- Richard Fade
Richard Fade, VENTURE PARTNER Richard is an Ignition Venture Partner. Richard invests primarily in infrastructure software and services. Prior to Ignition, Richard spent 16 years at Microsoft Corporation in several leadership roles including serving in the executive staff as a division level vice president for the past 10 years.
- Gurdeep Singh Pall
Gurdeep Singh Pall Corporate Vice President – RTC Product Group, Microsoft Gurdeep Singh Pall is the Corporate Vice President in the Real Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft. He is responsible for product development for Live Communications Server family of products and Microsoft RTC platforms. He is also responsible for developing Microsoft’s strategy in the Real Time Collaboration space – including the emerging Integrated Communications and VoIP areas.
- Brad Goodenough
Brad Goodenough Brad is Necco's Chief Information Officer. Brad is Necco's Chief Information Officer. Brad has over 10 years of experience in the technology field. Brad has over 10 years of experience in the technology field. He holds a BA in journalism from the Ohio State University (OSU). He holds a BA in journalism from the Ohio State University (OSU).