Editorial Chair
Keith Pleas, Guided Design
Keith is one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and is the Editorial Chair for VBITS as well as the patterns & practices Summits. He is also a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine and has developed Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith also sits on the INETA board and is the liaison for the INETA Speakers Bureau. You can contact him at .

Andrew Brust, Progressive Systems Consulting
Andrew Brust is President of Progressive Systems Consulting, Inc., a Manhattan-based company specializing in the development of, and developer training in, custom applications using .NET, SQL Server, and other Microsoft technologies. Andrew is Microsoft's Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau, a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine and a regular, highly rated speaker at VSLive! and other conferences throughout the U.S. and internationally. He has over 15 years of experience programming and consulting in the Financial, Public, Small Business, and Not-For-Profit sectors. Andrew is a Vice-Chairman of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) Board. Reach him by e-mail at , or visit Progressive's Web site at www.progsys.com.

Bill Evjen, Reuters
Bill Evjen, a Technical Director for Reuters, is not only the President of the St. Louis .NET User Group (www.stlnet.org) but is also the Founder and Executive Director of the International .NET Association, also known as INETA (www.ineta.org), which represents more than 95,000 members worldwide. He is an acclaimed author and speaker on ASP.NET and XML Web services. Bill has written such books as the Visual Basic .NET Bible, XML Web Services for ASP.NET, Web Services Enhancements: Understanding the WSE for .NET Enterprise Applications, and ASP.NET Professional Secrets.
www.reuters.com

Stephen Forte, Corzen, Inc.
Stephen Forte is the CTO and co-founder of Corzen, Inc , a provider of online market research data. Stephen, the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region, speaks regularly at industry conferences internationally, has written several books on database development, and is currently writing a MS Press book on SQL Server "Yukon". Prior to Corzen, he was the CTO of Zagat Survey as well as was co-founder and CTO of The Aurora Development Group.
www.corzen.com

Keith Franklin, Empowered Software Solutions
Keith Franklin was recently appointed a Microsoft MVP for his commitment to the technical community. Keith is also a regular speaker at VSLive!, DevDays, and the Chicago .NET Users Group, which he founded and directs. His close relationship with members of the Microsoft .NET Team(s), publishers, speakers, and user group community led to his appointment to the Board of Directors of the International .NET Association (INETA) in September 2001. He authored one of the first Visual Basic books devoted to the .NET Framework. He has also authored numerous articles published by Visual Studio Magazine, .NET Magazine and Visual Basic Programmers Journal and recently was named to the Editorial Board of the .NET Developers Journal.

Ken Getz, MCW Technologies
Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developer's Jumpstart with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several best selling books, including the Access 2002 Developer's Handbooks and VBA Developer's Handbook. He co-wrote and recorded for video training several courses for Application Developer's Training Company (AppDev), including ADO.NET, VB .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, and VB6 seminars. You can reach Ken at , www.mcwtech.com, or at www.developershandbook.com.

Richard Hale Shaw, Richard Hale Shaw Group
Richard Hale Shaw is the founder of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, which has consulted and trained software developers since 1993. He's created and chaired numerous technical conferences, including C# Live!, part of the VSLive! conference series. An articulate writer and speaker on topics dear to the hearts of software developers and an outspoken critic of broken devtools, Richard specializes in consulting and training on .NET programming in C# and COM/+ programming in C++. You can reach him at www.RichardHaleShawGroup.com.

Billy Hollis, DotNetMasters
Billy Hollis is an author and software developer from Nashville, Tennessee. Billy is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic .NET, VB .NET Programming on the Public Beta. He has written many articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He is the Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville for Microsoft, and runs a consulting company focusing on Microsoft .NET.

Sandy Khaund, Microsoft
Sandy Khaund is a Group Product Manager in the Microsoft Platform
Architecture Guidance (PAG) group. He is responsible for business &
marketing strategy behind patterns & practices, the library of technical
guidance for architects and developers to build reliable solutions for
.NET. Before taking on this role, Sandy worked as a technical product
manager for PAG to define customer requirements for several individual
patterns & practices releases. Before joining Microsoft, Sandy spent time as an Integration Engineer for Lockheed Martin, an Applications Engineer for Intel's Developer
Relations Group, founder of small software multimedia startup, and a
management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. Sandy holds a
B.S.E.E. and M.Eng. from the Cornell University, a B.A. in Physics from
Ithaca College, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania.

Chris Kinsman, Vergent Software
Chris Kinsman is one of the founders of Guided Design and is formerly the VP of Technology for a family of Web sites that provide information for developers. Chris teaches course on ASP.NET in both VB .NET and C# and has extensive experience with ASP, Web Farms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. He just finished writing Visual Basic .NET Developer?s Guide to ASP.NET, ADO .NET and XML and C# Developer?s Guide to ASP.NET, ADO .NET and XML. Chris has spoken at a variety of conference including VSLive! and Microsoft TechEd on topics including ASP.NET Security, ASP.NET State Management, Web Service Security, ASP to ASP.NET Migration, Building Server Controls. However, most of his time is spent doing consulting with Vergent Software. Contact him at .

Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies
Rockford Lhotka is the author of Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects from Apress. He is a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and he speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.

Harry Pierson, Microsoft
As an architect as part of Microsoft's D&PE Architecture Strategy Team, Harry is in charge of interfacing with the architect community. In this role, Harry focuses both on overall architecture strategy as well as on broad reach targeting of architects in companies of all sizes. Previously, Harry was an Architect and Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Industry Solutions Group, focusing on vertical markets such as public sector and financial services. Harry also worked for Microsoft Consulting Services in Southern California. Prior to joining Microsoft, Harry worked at a variety of system integrators and software development companies where he focused on data-driven systems.

Brian Randell, MCW Technologies
Brian Randell teaches Microsoft .NET curriculum using Visual Basic .NET and C# for DevelopMentor. When not teaching, Brian works as a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner, specializing in custom application development with Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products. Contact him at .

Prashant Sridharan, Microsoft
Prashant Sridharan is the Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio. He is responsible for product planning for future versions of Visual Studio and driving the creation of development tools for enterprise customers. In previous roles at Microsoft he was the Product Manager for Visual J++ 1.1, Visual J++ 6.0, Windows CE Tools, Microsoft TV, and Visual C#. Prior to Microsoft, he was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, CA and the MITRE Corporation in Washington, DC.

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