MVPs

Andrii Butenko

Location: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Company Website: Hitachi Solutions
Blog: Andrii Butenko
LinkedIn: Andrii on LinkedIn
Twitter: @a33ik

Andrii is Senior Consultant at Hitachi Solutions America. He has worked on a wide variety of Dynamics CRM/365 projects and taken part in all aspects of solution implementation, from requirements gathering, to design, to custom development, to rollout. Andrii has extensive experience working on projects for companies in finance, event management, and service type organizations. He has completed data migrations to Dynamics CRM/365 from several other CRM packages, as well as developed integrations with ERP systems and data repositories. Andrii currently holds a Microsoft MVP title and he is well versed in JavaScript, .Net, SSIS and Reporting Services.

Dharanidharan Balasubramanian

Location: Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
Company Website: Adobe
Blog: d365dotblog.com
LinkedIn: Dharanidharan on LinkedIn
Twitter: @dharani1743

Dharanidharan is a Certified Microsoft Professional and Microsoft MVP currently working at Adobe as a Computer Scientist. He leads the Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Groups in Tamil Nadu, Malaysia, and ASEAN. Dharanidharan has 9 years of experience in Asp.Net, C#, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, 2015, 2016 and Dynamics 365, Click Dimensions, SQL Server, Azure Dev-Ops and Azure, Power Platform, Power automate and Power BI. Additionally, he holds a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) certification in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015, 2016, and Dynamics 365 CE.

Vinoth Balasubramanian

Location: Bellevue WA, United States
Company Website: Microsoft
LinkedIn: Vinoth on LinkedIn

Vinoth currently holds the position of Principal Solution Architect in Business Applications & Platform (BAP) at Microsoft. In this role, he actively collaborates with enterprise and strategic customers/partners, leveraging his extensive experience to innovate Dynamics 365 solutions. Serving as a seasoned Product Lead for the Dynamics 365 Customer Service portfolio, Vinoth brings a wealth of expertise to guide product development and enhance customer service offerings. Throughout his professional journey, Vinoth consistently demonstrates a dedicated focus on solution architecture, design, implementation, system integration, and data migration within the Dynamics 365 ecosystem. His proficiency, combined with a rich reservoir of experience, establishes him as a valuable asset in shaping and delivering state-of-the-art solutions for clients and partners.

Aaron Carpenter

Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Company Website: Red Wolf Tek
LinkedIn: Aaron on LinkedIn

Aaron is a Solution Architect at Red Wolf Tek and the University of Washington specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. He is experienced in delivering new implementations, upgrades, development support and training, specializing in Server and IFD configuration. Aaron focuses on delivering complex software solutions from conception to market in a variety of roles, from business analyst to architect to developer. He has significant technical experience with TSQL including database/warehouse design and administration; is well versed in the entire MS SQL stack (SSIS, SSRS and SSAS) including experience with KingswaySoft and other data integration providers. Aaron is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist.

Scott Durow

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Company Website: Develop1
Blog: Develop1 Blog
LinkedIn: Scott on LinkedIn
Twitter: @ScottDurow

Scott is a committed and personable software architect/technologist with a successful track record for realising business vision through enterprise/application architectures that are tightly aligned with budget and time scales. By combining his detailed technical knowledge with a clear grasp of the wider commercial issues Scott is able to identify and implement practical solutions to real business problems. Scott is a Dynamics CRM MVP and the author of the Ribbon Workbench for Dynamics CRM and SparkleXRM.

Javier Ergas

Location: Santiago, Chile
LinkedIn: Javier on LinkedIn

With a background in computer science and an entrepreneurial spirit, Javier has been the founder of several technology companies since the age of 21. He specializes in business consultation, CRM and educational technology.

Mike Feingold

Location: London, United Kingdom
Company Website: Empoint
LinkedIn: Mike on LinkedIn

Mike is a data integration architect and has been working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM since version 1.2. He is experienced in all aspects of the design and development of CRM projects. Mike's recent projects have focused around integration of CRM with multiple other line-of-business applications mainly for companies within the financial services sector.

Marco Foldes

Location: Rome Area, Italy
Company Website: Alterna
LinkedIn: Marco on LinkedIn

Marco is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution architect and currently serves as a Dynamics CRM pre-sales manager at Alterna. He has been involved in Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects since the 1.2 version. Marco has experience in the design and development of CRM Projects, .net development and has extensive knowledge in the Microsoft SQL Server Platform, including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS.

Aileen Gusni

Location: Singapore
Company Website: NEC
Blog: missdynamicscrm.blogspot.com
LinkedIn: Aileen on LinkedIn
Twitter: @aileengusni

Aileen is a passionate, experienced, and certified Microsoft Professional, awarded as Microsoft MVP and Microsoft MCC with key expertise in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft SharePoint. She has been working closely with Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology since CRM 4.0, with intensive experience as a primary consultant in 2 large worldwide recognized Microsoft Gold Partner companies. Currently Aileen is working at NEC, a Global Fortune 500 Company.

Jason Lattimer

Location: Greenville, Wisconsin, USA
Company Website: PowerObjects
Blog: jlattimer.blogspot.com
LinkedIn: Jason on LinkedIn
Twitter: @JLattimer

Jason is a Sr. CRM Consultant with PowerObjects and a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics CRM. Other interests outside of developing custom solutions for Dynamics CRM include Azure, mobile, and developer tools. You can often find him helping out in the MSDN and Dynamics Community forums, talking to user groups, and occasionally putting some helpful tools on CodePlex & GitHub.

Joel Lindstrom

Location: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Company Website: Hitachi Solutions
Blog: CRM Tip of the Day and Hitachi Solutions/customer effective Blog
LinkedIn: Joel on LinkedIn

Joel Lindstrom is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution Architect focused on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, reporting with Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, and Data Migration. He is the editor and frequent contributor to the CEI Blog and co-creator of the CRM Tip of the Day blog. Joel works as a Solution Architect at Hitachi Solutions in Greenville, SC, where he has helped many companies successfully implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM since 2007.

Andre Margono

Location: Melbourne Area, Australia
Company Website: Catholic Church Insurance
Blog: Andre Margono
LinkedIn: Andre on LinkedIn
Twitter: @andz_88

Andre is a technical consultant/developer specializing in CRM systems. He has been working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM since version 4 and passionate to see the community of Dynamics CRM/xRM users grow. Andre is currently a System Architect at Catholic Church Insurance, and holds a Microsoft MVP title for his outstanding technical knowledge and contributions to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM community.

Jerry Martin

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Company Website: Hitachi Solutions America
Blog: Jerry Martin
LinkedIn: Jerry on LinkedIn

Jerry has spent over 25 years in software development primarily in the integration and migration space. From integrating mainframe banking systems or flat file report data from a myriad of different sources into CRM, Jerry has used KingswaySoft on hundreds of occasions.

Jerry has become intimately involved in many different projects and many different technical resource and is an internal Hitachi Solutions MVP in the integration space of their practice. Jerry develops integration solutions for Commercial and Business Banking, Insurance, Industrial Materials, Investment Banking and B2B Sales and Leasing.

David Masri

Location: New York City, New York, USA
Company Website: Plative
Blog: The Salesforce Data Blog
LinkedIn: David on LinkedIn
Twitter: @DavidJMasri

David Masri is the Director of Professional Services at Plative a Salesforce Silver Partner. Before joining Plative he was the Technical Director of Data Strategy and Architecture for Capgemini Invent's Salesforce Practice. He has over 20 years of hands-on experience building integrated ERP, BI, e-commerce, and CRM systems, with the last five years working exclusively with the Salesforce platform. He holds over 13 professional certifications, including 9 Salesforce certifications, the PMP, and Google’s Data Engineer certification. David has been involved in dozens of Salesforce migration and integration projects and has used that experience to run numerous training programs for aspiring Integration/Migration specialists.

David is the author of: Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce: Patterns and Best Practices.

Todd Mercer

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Company Website: MD Financial Management
Blog: Todd J. Mercer
LinkedIn: Todd on LinkedIn
Twitter: @toddjmercer

Todd is the Technical Lead for the Dynamics 365 team at MD Financial Management that is responsible for extending the company’s Dynamics 365 implementation through customizations, plugins and integrations with other internal systems. He has been working with Dynamics CRM since 2011 and recently completed a migration from On-Premises to D365 in the cloud and is passionate about finding technology solutions that streamline and automate business processes while delivering great user experience.

He is a Chapter leader for the Dynamics 365 UG and part of the leadership team for the Power Platform UG in Ottawa, Canada, and is an active participant helping on the UG forums.

Jamie Miley

Location: Greater Minneapolis, St. Paul Area, Minnesota, USA
Blog: Jamie Miley
LinkedIn: Jamie on LinkedIn
Twitter: @mileyja

Jamie currently works in Fridley Minnesota for Warner Connect as their Application Development Manager. Jamie has been working with Dynamics CRM since version 3.0 and contributes mostly in the CRM support forums and through his blog at http://mileyja.blogspot.com. Jamie currently holds a Microsoft MVP title and his major area of expertise is CRM development.

Stephanus Natawardaja

Location: Sydney, Australia
Company Website: SMS Management & Technology
Blog: Stephanus Natawardaja
LinkedIn: Stephanus on LinkedIn
Twitter: @snataw

Stephanus is a well-recognized consultant with over 10 years’ experience in Not for Profit, Government and Professional Services sectors. As a Microsoft Certified Professional and Technology Specialist, Stephanus has in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies including Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, and Office 365. He has extensive experience as an architect on projects ranging in size and complexity from small standalone to large multi-system enterprise wide projects.

Thomas Pein-Lorenzen

Location: Denmark
Company Website: Netcompany
Blog: CRM, SSIS & Integrations
LinkedIn: Thomas on LinkedIn
Twitter: @Thpein

Thomas is a senior technical CRM consultant, who specializes in data management and dynamics CRM. Thomas specializes in creating tailor-made solutions in Dynamics CRM, based both on the customers’ business model and on their requirements, in order to create as much benefit in their daily routine. Thomas uses SSIS and KingswaySoft on a daily basis to manage customer data. He has built many projects for Microsoft Dynamics CRM/NAV integrations, and has created specific solutions for professional sport. Due to his extensive experience with SSIS and KingswaySoft, Thomas has been able to introduce and teach KingswaySoft and data integration techniques to other professionals.

Bharat Premji

Location: Perth, Australia
Company Website: With Precision Global Solutions
LinkedIn: Bharat on LinkedIn

Bharat is a functional consultant/developer within the Dynamics CRM space. He has been working with Dynamics CRM since version 2011 and is primarily focused on data migration from legacy systems into CRM and integration between external systems and CRM. Bharat has created migration/integration solutions for industries such as government, insurance, sales and mining.

Although not a developer in the purest sense he has a passion for data and has knowledge of CRM reporting through SSRS.

Nishant Rana

Location: United Arab Emirates
Company Website: First Abu Dhabi Bank
Blog: https://nishantrana.me/
LinkedIn: Nishant on LinkedIn
Twitter: @nishantranacrm

Nishant Rana is currently a Microsoft Business Applications MVP, working as a Technology Lead at Sable 37 (A DXC Technology Company). Nishant is also the author of Dynamics 365 Application Development book. He has over a decade of industry experience with various Microsoft.NET technologies and products like Dynamics 365/CRM, SharePoint, SSIS, SSRS, ASP.NET, WCF etc. He has also worked for Microsoft India for around 7 years wherein he worked in various data migration and integration projects using SSIS. It was there he learned and implemented KingswaySoft products.

You can reach him at his blog (https://nishantrana.me/) and his twitter handle (@nishantranacrm)

Demian Adolfo Raschkovan

Location: Madrid, Spain
Company Website: Axazure 
Blog: Demian Rasko
LinkedIn: Demian on LinkedIn
Twitter: @demian_rasko

Technical consultant with extensive experience in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft technologies. Demian is currently Chief Technology Officer at Axazure, a firm specialized in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Platform.

Demian has worked on more than 100 CRM implementations in different positions (as developer, project leader, trainer, architect, sales and presales) and different areas (banking, construction, telecommunications, engineers, services, retail, public sector, etc. He is passionate about CRM and all the possibilities that Microsoft Dynamics delivers. Demian is a Microsoft Certified Dynamics Professional, Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, and a Microsoft MVP.

Jean-René Roy

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Company Website: Technologies SoftDesign Inc.
Blog: SoftDesign Inc.
LinkedIn: Jean-René on LinkedIn
Twitter: @DevTeachConfere
Phone Number: 819-921-9638

Jean-René Roy has been developing IT systems for large and small enterprises since 1987. In 1991 he founded the consulting firm Technologies SoftDesign Inc. Since that time he has worked on projects for Bell Canada, CGI, ArchiDATA, Keops, House of Communes, Kraft, Innovapost and many other clients assuming the responsibility of Software Developers, Analyst, Team leader, Software architect and mentor. He has been and is still very active in the developers’ community by acting as a user group leader for more than ten years with the Montreal .NET community and the Ottawa .NET community. He is also the co-founder of an international developer’s conference www.DevTeach.com which is now directed by a member of his team. Jean-René Roy is a SQL Server Microsoft MVP.

Blake Scarlavai

Location:Chicago, Illinois, USA
Company Website: Sonoma Partners
Blog: Sonoma Partners Blog
LinkedIn: Blake on LinkedIn
Twitter: @bscarlav

Blake is a senior developer and manager at Sonoma Partners. He has been developing solutions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM for over 6 years since version 3.0.

Chris Scott

Location: Kirkland, Washington, USA
Company Website:Avanade Inc.
LinkedIn: Chris on LinkedIn  
Twitter: @chrissco28

Chris has over 20 years’ experience leading and delivering IT and consulting solutions. He has a deep understanding of CRM (Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com) development fundamentals and their application in the marketplace. He has extensive experience with business analysis, defining requirements, system design and delivery within various industries such as high-tech, call centers, government, and homebuilder. His development experience includes extensive integration experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce using Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server (2006 – 2009), SQL Server Integration Services, and the .NET platform.

Scott Sewell

Location: Greater New York City Area, New York, USA
Company Website:Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd.
LinkedIn: Scott on LinkedIn  
Twitter: @scottsewell

Scott is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP and currently works at Hitachi-Solutions as a senior Dynamics CRM Solution Architect. With more than 15 years of experience in project implementation and a focus on data migration and integration, Scott has served as a lead on several large CRM projects, including a 2008 Gartner Award winner for Sales Optimization and as the Solution Architect on 2011 and 2013 Microsoft Excellence Award winners. Scott is a both a popular speaker on CRM-related topics and a frequent contributor to the community through blogs and a co-author of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP Book.

Roohi Shaikh

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Company Website: Inogic
Blog: Inogic Blog
LinkedIn: Roohi on LinkedIn
Twitter: @soul_in

Roohi is one of the founders and Principal at Inogic, a Microsoft Silver Certified CRM Partner engaging in providing services and products for Dynamics CRM Platform. She is based in Mumbai, India and has an industry experience of more than 10 years. She started out as a developer in Dynamics NAV and later moved on to start up Inogic with a specialization in Dynamics CRM since the early CRM 3.0 days. Roohi is also an MVP for Dynamics CRM.

Alex Ski

Location: United Kingdom 
Company Website: Extramation

Alex is Senior Enterprise level Data and Systems Integration Architect and founding member of Extramation Systems Integration Ltd. He has 15 years’ experience focusing exclusively on Data and ETL/Integration for predominantly Financial Services Institutions such as Investment Banks, but also other industries such as the Space Industry, Recruitment and Commerce. As a true data integration authority, Alex has seamlessly integrated a diversity of systems such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM (since v1.2 to 2013), MQ, Salesforce.com, Sage, GoldTier etc. Fundamentally, Alex states “if it can be reached via any IP instrument, we can integrate it at any level into your organisation”

Kunal Tripathy

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Company Website: KPMG Adoxio
Blog: Kunal Tripathy
LinkedIn: Kunal on LinkedIn
Twitter: @imKTripathy

Kunal is a technology evangelist and has over 12 years of extensive Technical experience. He has worked on a wide variety of Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementations and has extensive experience with Data migration and Integration using Dynamics 365. He consults on architecture and design considerations to ensure the successful implementation of Dynamics 365 projects.

Kunal is very deeply passionate about Dynamics 365 community and shares his learnings through his blog and as a speaker on Dynamics 365 related topics.

Kunal works as a Technical Team Lead with KPMG Adoxio, Canada.

Sebastian Waksmundzki

Location: United Kingdom
Twitter: @qmiswax

Sebastian Waksmundzki is Dynamics CRM solution architect with over 13 years of industry experience as a software engineer and architect. Sebastian has been working on projects involving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 1.2, 3, 4 and CRM2012/CRM 2013. He has extensive knowledge of other MS software including SQL Server, SharePoint and Dynamics. He is passionate about new technologies and a fan of the Windows Azure Platform and distributed systems.

Alan Webster

Location: Brisbane, Australia
Company Website: Winson Group | Signet | insignia
LinkedIn: Alan on LinkedIn
Twitter: @alanwebbo67

Alan Webster has worked within the I.T. industry for over 35 years, managing teams to deliver highly available platforms across several industries in both the U.K. and Australia. Currently he's working as part of the Executive team at the Winson Group, having migrated the business systems to Microsoft Azure and utilizing several server-less solutions to achieve this.

Recently he replaced a significant integration between Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 CE Online utilizing the KingswaySoft components and Microsoft Azure SSIS IR to provide a resilient and server-less architecture. The same architecture is being deployed for a business-critical integration between Dynamics NAV (soon to be upgrade to Business Central) and Magento Enterprise Online.

Alan's career spans three decades, covering SAP, Infor M3, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics 365 and many of the Microsoft products and providing business intelligence solutions built on Microsoft SQL server and Power BI.

Gustaf Westerlund

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Company Website: CRM Konsulterna
Blog: Power Platform & Dynamics Blog by Gustaf
LinkedIn: Gustaf on LinkedIn
Twitter: @crmgustaf

Gustaf has been working with Dynamics 365 since version 1.2. He is a Microsoft MVP for 7 years and always recommends working with KingswaySoft on almost all projects in his company

Wayne Wilson

Location: Matthews, NC, USA
Company Website: Hitachi Solutions
LinkedIn: Wilson on LinkedIn

Wayne has over 30 years of software development and architecture experience with 20 years of it being in the CRM space, including multiple custom CRM applications, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE. He has fashioned CRM solutions for small businesses up to the largest enterprises, integrating these solutions with upstream and downstream applications in their environments.

Wayne holds numerous Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE certifications and has many years of experience using KingswaySoft solutions with Dynamics CRM/365 and SQL across multiple industries such as Health, Financial, Insurance and Manufacturing companies. His team at Hitachi Solutions is integration-centric and KingswaySoft is one of the most important tools they use.