MSDN BeLux Podcast

Paul Yuknewicz is a Program Manager for the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. Paul currently leads the business and community areas of the Visual Basic product group, working closely with the marketing and evangelism teams. He and his team are primarily focused on helping Visual Basic developers succeed in upgrading to Visual Basic .NET and ensuring high satisfaction. Previously, Paul was responsible for several of the product efforts including creating Visual Basic Express, starter kits, features in data access design, and features used in Web design. Before coming to Microsoft, Paul studied physics and computer science at Haverford College, PA, USA. This is Paul’s third visit to the EMEA region and he is very excited to get to know the developer communities there better.

Todd Apley is currently working for the Deployment and Setup team. They all ultimately own the whole Visual Basic user experience, so it’s a bit of everything. Previously, he did lots of work on the language and IDE features in Visual Basic. He also owns architecting and development of distributed automation tools that his division utilizes in shipping Visual Studio.
Todd graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1993. He did an internship at Microsoft in 1992 in the Microsoft Project team where he used Visual Basic for the first time and immediately fell in love with it. He took a full time position the summer after in Visual Basic Testing and has been working in this group ever since. He has been intimately involved with the development of Visual Basic since Visual Basic 3.