Todd Anglin is a Telerik Technical Evangelist responsible for building a strong Telerik community and channeling feedback to the development team. Before joining Telerik, he worked as a developer in a Fortune 200 financial services company in San Antonio as a Systems Analyst supporting applications on a wide range of platforms and technologies, including Unix, Windows Server, Informix, Oracle, and SQL Server. Todd graduated Magna Cum Laude with Business Honors from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University with a BBA in MIS and now resides with his wife in San Antonio, Texas.

Richard Campbell is the president of Campbell & Associates, based in Vancouver, BC. He consults with a number of companies around the world on large scale and high availability web-based applications. Richard is one of the founders of StrangeLoop Networks, creators of the Mobius device. He is a technical editor for Advisor Media and co-authors a monthly Q&A column. In addition, Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and co-host of .NET Rocks! the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers.

Miguel Castro (www.dotnetdude.com) is a principal consultant and trainer with SteelBlue Solutions and specializes in building and teaching how to build, .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Conference Speaker, contributor to CoDe Magazine and DevSource.com, as well as an active blogger, and has been a software developer for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact). Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups, code camps, and conferences around the country. He has also been featured on the Internet Radio Talk Show, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft's ARCast (Architecture Podcast), MSDN Radio, and The Polymorphic Podcast on numerous ocassions. His blog and other things of potential interest can be found at www.steelbluesolutions.com. He currently resides in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria.

Hristo Deshev is a group product manager for telerik, a leading vendor of ASP.NET controls (http://www.telerik.com). He has been working on component development for the past several years, focusing on creating rich, highly interactive AJAX solutions. A major goal of his and his team is "taming web development" - applying agile software engineering practices to create robust solutions targeting all modern web browsers and supporting multiple ASP.NET and Visual Studio.NET versions. You can reach Hristo via email at hristo.deshev at telerik.com and on his blog at http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/twisted_asp_net.

Zhivko Dimitrov is Director User Experience at Telerik. He is the web designer behind the Telerik web-sites and product skins. Throughout the years, he has specialized in interface and web design, but his interests spill over to print and interactive as well. His current work is focused on making web experiences usable, pleasant, and memorable.

Over years, Dino developed hands-on experience and skills in architecting and building distributed systems for banking and insurance companies and, in general, in industry contexts where the demand for security, optimization, performance, scalability, interoperability is dramatically high. Today, Dino is considered an authoritative guru and expert in software technologies that relate to ASP.NET and AJAX, and in general the Web. Every month at least five different magazines throughout the world publish Dino's articles on topics that range from ASP.NET insights to AJAX patterns and from industry best practices to in-depth development and data access issues. Dino is the author of several ASP.NET and AJAX book for Microsoft Press and a frequent speaker at industry events such Microsoft TechEd and DevConnections.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region as well as an MVP and INETA speaker. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, North Africa Developers Conference and other conferences around the world. He is an author of Programming SQL Server 2005 (MSPress) as well as other books on application and database development. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group.

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the early 1990s. Carl is widely known as the host of the popular .NET Rocks! Internet audio talk show (www.dotnetrocks.com), and dnrTV (www.dnrtv.com). His company Pwop Productions (www.pwop.com) produces these shows weekly as well as podcasts for other companies. His training company Franklins.Net (www.franklins.net) provides public and on-site hands-on training in VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, BizTalk, and Team System with name-brand .NET gurus. Carl is co-chair of Visual Studio Connections (www.vsconnections.com). He is the MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut, and an MVP for Visual Basic. He has written two books for John Wiley & Sons as well as numerous articles, and in 1994 started the first website for VB programmers, Carl & Gary's VB Home Page. Reach him by email at carl@franklins.net.

Branimir is a C# MVP and a UG Lead of the Sofia's .NET Usergroup - http://sofiadev.org. He's working as a Freelance Software Developer, Consultant and Trainer. He has been working with .NET since 2001 and is certified for with the latest MS certifications on .NET and SQL Server. Branimir is a regular speaker on Microsoft events and a contributor within the community.

Hadi Hariri is Software Architect at Atozed Software, an ISV specializing in developer tools and content management systems. He is also Co-chair for various open source projects including Indy, Indy # and Mobile Agents. His passions include software architecture, web development and security. He is co-author of the "Indy in Depth" book and has contributed to numerous developer publications and magazines. A frequent speaker at international conferences and user groups, he is based in Spain, where he lives with his wife and two sons, and runs the Malaga .NET User group.

Formerly the Regional Developer Adviser (DPE) for Microsoft MEA (Middle East and Africa), he was responsible for 85 countries spanning 4 continents and crossing 10 time zones. Now Chad is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director covering Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia and a professional speaker at popular developer conferences worldwide. Chad was once introduced as having "mastered more languages than a United Nations translator." Chad is the author of the book Indy in Depth and has contributed to several other books on network communications and general programming. Chad writes regularly for the Software Developer Network Magazine (Dutch), and occasionally for other magazines. Chad is an expatriate who travels extensively year round and is currently based in Estonia. Chad has also lived in Canada, Cyprus, Jordan, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. In total Chad has visited more than 50 countries, visiting most of them many times.

Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy - a custom application development firm comprised of experts in Microsoft .NET, Tools, Servers & Platforms. As a software development lead, architect, author, & speaker, Tim has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team.
Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences held around the world and is consistently rated in the top 10% of all conference speakers.

Martin Kulov is founder of kulov.net, provider of news, events and valuable resources for software development community in Bulgaria and close region. Martin is member of INETA Speakers Bureau, MVP, MCT, MCSD.NET, and MCPD. He has passion talking about WCF, Visual Studio Team System, ASP.NET, debugging applications and other inspiring technologies. Martin is a regular speaker at various Microsoft seminars and Webcasts, and is writing WSE column for Visual Studio Magazine. He is also chapter president of IASA Bulgaria - local chapter of International Association of Software Architects. Martin's daily work consists of creating best practices and SDLC improvements for ProPeople, utilizing Visual Studio Team System to the max. Prior joining ProProple, Martin was leading .NET Department in the National Academy for Software Development in Bulgaria. Martin's blog can be found at http://www.codeattest.com/blogs/martin.

Ami Levin is a senior instructor and expert consultant for MS SQL Server Solutions with over 20 years experience. Ami holds the MCT, MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA, MCTS and MCITP for database development and administration Microsoft titles. In 2006 Ami was awarded "SQL Server MVP" title. Ami conducts courses and consults enterprise SQL Server projects worldwide for leading organizations such as Amdocs, HP, Verint and SAP. Ami leads the Israeli SQL Server user group and the SQL Server newsgroup.

Brian Noyes is a software architect with IDesign Inc (www.idesign.net), the Microsoft Regional Director for the Mid-Atlantic Region, a Solution Architect MVP, writer, speaker, and trainer. He is a frequent top- rated speaker at industry conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd US, Europe, and Malaysia, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. His latest publication is Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, a LiveLesson training DVD. His previous two books Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce and Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 continue to sell well.
Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcat's in the Navy, graduating from both TopGun and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School.

Maciej Pilecki is an Associate Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, global organization specializing in training, mentoring and consulting around Microsoft data platform. He has more than 6 years of international experience in software development, specializing mostly in MS SQL Server database applications. In the past he also used to work as a network administrator and security consultant.
He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP), frequently delivering courses and conference speeches on many aspects of SQL Server and application development.

Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp, a Canadian based Microsoft Gold Partner. Joel is also an INETA speaker, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Microsoft MVP specializing in team development with Visual Studio Team System. Joel has written many articles and books, his latest on Project Management best practices using Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Press.

Alain "Lino" Tadros is President & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado and Texas, dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a well respected member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Mr. Tadros has been awarded Microsoft MVP status three years in a row (2005, 2006, 2007) for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, COM, and Web Services. Tadros is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations on 5 different continents since 1994. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of 4 Silicon Valley corporations.

Vladimir Tchalkov is CEO of Crossroad (www.crossroad.bg), MVP and Microsoft Regional Director since 2004. Vladimir has strong experience in Visual Studio .NET/2003/2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Sharepoint и Microsoft BizTalk Server. He has managed multiple projects for development of enterprise information solutions, Internet sites with content management and Microsoft Office add-ons. He is a presenter on many technical seminars and conferences - Microsoft Days 2002-2006, Sofia .NET user group, and many others. He is rated No.1 by the audience of Microsoft Days 4 times.

John Waters from Falafel Software was formerly CEO and founder of the Swedish software consultancy Tankebolaget, which he started and grew for 8 years. During this period he also was the lead architect and developer of a number of high profile financial software products and solutions, including Scandinavia’s leading Internet retail stock trading system, a leading mortgage and credit risk assessment product now used by many of Sweden’s banks for housing loans, and software for automated trading on the Swedish stock exchange. John has a strong background in Delphi, C# and SQL. John has also spoken at conferences on the subject of Web Services. Recent projects include in-car navigation systems, GPS- and MapPoint-based solutions and capture and playback of video. John has a MS in Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and has been a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server.