Community Manager, SharePoint Magazine
Twitter: @arnonel

Arno Nel is the founder of SharePoint Magazine and a Microsoft MVP. Arno Nel is a SharePoint consultant in the UK. His blog is Arno Nel – SharePoint Consultant

Joel Oleson

Senior SharePoint Architect and Evangelist, Quest Software
Twitter: @JoelOleson

Joel is senior SharePoint architect and evangelist at Quest Software, where he is responsible for product strategy for the SharePoint business unit.

As an internationally recognized technology expert in SharePoint, social computing, and Internet technologies, Joel is the most popular and highly requested global SharePoint speaker in the community. His speaking engagements include keynotes at a variety of SharePoint conferences across six continents.

His latest book, “SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating,” is available now from O’Reilly Media.

Prior to joining Quest, Joel spent seven years at Microsoft, where he architected the first global SharePoint deployment in Microsoft IT – SharePoint Online – and participated in the launch of SharePoint 2007.

Product Manager at Metalogix
Twitter: @chrisgeier

Chris Geier is a 15-year veteran of the technology industry and specializes in all things Microsoft. He was introduced to SharePoint in 2001 while working for Microsoft services.

Currently Chris is the a product manager for Metalogix on the StoragePoint product. Chris is a participant in, and advocate for, the SharePoint community, as well as a regular participant/speaker at SharePoint Saturday and other grass roots events.

When he’s not twiddling with the latest gadgets, software and technology, you’ll probably find Chris on a bleacher cheering his budding baseball and gymnastics stars. Chris and his wife Sara have four kids and live in the suburban Chicago area. 

Partner / Principal Consultant, Convergent Computing
Twitter: @michaeltnoel
Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics.

He has authored several major best-selling industry books that have been translated into over 10 languages, with sales exceeding 250,000 copies worldwide. Significant titles include Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more.

Michael’s writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

Solutions Architect: Security and Information Management at Seven Sigma Business Solutions
Twitter: @paulculmsee

Paul Culmsee is an IT professional, facilitator and sense-maker with 21 years experience across a wide variety of IT disciplines. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MOSS 2007), Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He has also held the Cisco Certified Network Professional certification.

Paul is one of only three Cognexus Certified Dialogue Mappers in the world and along with Chris Tomich, is the only practicing Dialogue Mapper in the southern hemisphere to have trained directly under Jeff Conklin of the Cognexus Institute in California. He is a regular international conference speaker in IT and non IT circles and is a sought after trainer and advisor.

Paul has worked as a security analyst, business adviser, dialogue mapper, trainer, infrastructure manager, QA/Product and project manager on a wide variety of IT projects, as well as designing and developing the EZ-Rent property investment tax and cash flow analyser. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science Degree from Edith Cowan University.

His popular SharePoint blog CleverWorkarounds attracts more than 1 million hits per month and specialises in planning, governance, ROI and project management. He is currently writing a book on sense-making and studying a Masters degree in Integrated Human Studies from the University of Western Australia

Author, SharePoint Magazine
Twitter: @sympmarc

Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform.

Marc has over 25 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.

Lately, aside from client work, Marc has been:

• Developer of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices)
• Faculty member at the USPJA Academy
• Frequent contributing author at EndUserSharePoint.com
• Blogging at Marc D Anderson’s blog
• Moderator at EndUserSharePoint’s Stump the Panel forums
• Moderator at SharePointOverflow.com

Director, Development and Evangelism – SharePoint Solutions
Twitter: @gvaro

Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is the Director of Development and Evangelism for Grace-Hunt, LLC (www.grace-hunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over 13 years, and has been working with SharePoint for the past 6 years.

Geoff is an active member of the SharePoint community, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (www.bostonsharepointug.org), co-organizer for SharePoint Saturday Boston (www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston) and speaks regularly at SharePoint events and user groups, including the SharePoint Best Practices 2010 Conference and the SharePoint Technology Conference.

He also maintains a blog on SharePoint at www.geoffvarosky.com

Owner of Cardarelli Consulting

Twitter: @maurocardarelli
Mauro Cardarelli is co-author of “Essential SharePoint 2007 -Delivering High Impact Collaboration” and “Essential SharePoint 2010 – Overview, Governance, and Planning”.

His deep knowledge of the Microsoft platform and recognized expertise in the areas of knowledge management and business intelligence make him a popular technology expert with experience. He has been published in various industry journals and is a featured speaker at many industry conferences.

Mauro has 20 years of experience designing and building technology solutions for customers representing a wide range of industry verticals.

SharePoint Consultant
Twitter: @ruveng

Ruven is a senior SharePoint consultant who has been architecting and delivering successful technology solutions for over 20 years.

Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Economics, Business, Software Development and Training to get to the heart of complex problems.

Ruven has spoken at numerous events and conferences throughout Canada and the United States.