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Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. During the past 20 years, Ballmer has headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In July 1998, he was promoted to President, a role that gave him day-to-day responsibility for running Microsoft. He was named CEO in January 2000, assuming full management responsibility for the company, which includes delivering on the company's mission of enabling people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. |
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Luc Van de Velde, Director Developer & Platform Group of Microsoft Belux Luc Van de Velde is Director Developer & Platform Group for Microsoft and has the mission to evangelize the technological vision of Microsoft towards broad audiences including designers, web developers, IT-architects, IT-professionals and academics. He started at Microsoft in '99 leading the local consulting department, and after that he worked on building the partner channel, both in capacity as capabilities to support Microsoft solutions. Luc is a long-term IT veteran who started his career in 1985 as developer and has developed his professional experience before Microsoft on Mainframe and UNIX at IT companies like Computer Associates and Informix. |
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Catherine Heller, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Catherine Heller is a Technical Evangelist in Redmond where she works with early adopters to ensure their success on pre-released versions of Microsoft technologies. For the past 10 months, she has been working with ISVs that are developing for Windows Vista. Catherine initially joined the evangelism team in 2003 to work with early adopters of Visual Studio 2005 and VSTO 2005. Prior to moving to Redmond, she spent three years working for Microsoft Services in Spain, where as a Senior Consultant she assisted enterprise customers with Web Services, COM+ and other middle-tier technologies. Catherine has worked with Microsoft developer technologies for over 15 years. |
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David Pugh-Jones, Creative Strategist at Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions As Creative Strategist for Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, David’s role is to be the evangelist for creative offerings and the strategist for creativity online. Alongside this David regularly presents to key clients and agencies on the future of digital advertising. David successfully worked in this role across the UK market for the past 2 and half years before recently taking on the challenge across the EMEA region in understanding the media landscape, the creative agencies ecosystem and our clients advertising demands, ensuring Microsoft is competitive with client concepts, ideas and solutions and continuing to drive and change the creativity online perception. Since joining Microsoft in October 2005 David has collaborated with numerous clients, advertising and creative agencies in evangelising innovation and creativity online. As the product expert on rich media best practice and technical feasibility with external partners, David’s focus is to act as a creative consultant advising on advertising solutions across the Microsoft digital portfolio including MSN, Windows Live, Xbox and Office. Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Director of Operations at Handbag.com where he led the successful implementation of an in-house operations, creative and account management team and was integral in the launch of handbag.com’s sister site, getlippy.com in March 2004. David began his career in Publishing in 1995 and since then he has gained over 9 years experience of online advertising. |
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Gill Cleeren, Software architect, Ordina Gill Cleeren works at Ordina Belgium (blog.n-technologies.be), one of the largest players in the Belgian ICT market as a software architect. He specializes in UI-technologies like ASP.NET, AJAX and Silverlight. He is a Regional Director and an MVP for ASP.NET. You can read his blog on www.snowball.be and www.codeflakes.net. |
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Tim Heuer, Program Manager, Microsoft Tim Heuer is a program manager for Microsoft Silverlight working on the developer community team. Tim has worked with Microsoft developer tools and technologies since the early 1990s. Tim is extremely passionate about Microsoft, but also enjoys learning new technologies and frameworks that exist. His main passion lies in the web technologies and loves working with software developers to share and learn knowledge in this space. He's inflicted with the unfortunate disease that his work is also his hobby and he loves technology. You can usually find him behind the keyboard trying to learn something new. You can find him online sharing his findings of technology at http://timheuer.com/blog/. |
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Paul Dawson, Head of Interactive Media, Conchango I started working in 'new media' when it was... around 1996, doing websites for people like DHL and Cellnet (remember them?) as well as CD-Roms for people like Doring Kindersley. I joined Conchango in 1999 because I was fed up with the conflicts and overlaps between the companies that we tended to partner with to deliver these things. Usually it was a tech company and a marketing agency. Neither had the user's needs in mind, and both were trying hard to take business away from each other.. so at Conchango I saw the opportunity to create an integrated team, who as a result of all being on the same side, and following good user centred design process, delivered better stuff for both our clients and their customers. So we built an interactive media team who do design, branding and user experience, and in 2006 were rated best in Europe at this by Forrester Research. Which was nice! Now I spend a lot of time evangelising to customers and at conferences, about what Conchango do in the field of Customer and Brand Experience, as well as still working for real clients on real projects! |
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