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Itzik Ben-Gan is a Principal Mentor and Founder of Solid Quality Mentors. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered many training events around the globe focused on T-SQL Querying and Programming, Performance Tuning, and Internals. An accomplished author, Itzik has written many articles for SQL Server Magazineas well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN. Itzik is the author of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - T- SQL Querying (MSPress, 2009) and Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - T-SQL Programming (MSPress, 2009 )Itzik's speaking activities include Tech Ed, DevWeek, PASS, SQL Server Connections, and SQLU Summits to name a few.

Lubor is a member of SQL Server development group since the 6.5 release in 1996. As a Program Manager, he was responsible for development of the Relational Engine. Among many features he was working on, probably the most significant were the first version of failover clustering, introduction of query parallelism taking advantage of multi-CPU and (later) multi-core machines, outlining needs for Resource Governor a long time before it was developed, and serving as a PM for table and index partitioning in SQL Server 2005, when he briefly took over GPM-ing the whole engine.

After shipping SQL Server 2005, Lubor joined the Customer & Partner Group, composed of several customer and partner-facing teams. Lubor managed the Customer Advisory Team (CAT), designing the largest and most demanding implementations of SQL Server around the world. In 2010, Lubor joined the SQL Azure team, where he built a new team of program managers and developers supporting deployment of selected applications on the Azure platform. Later the same year, he completed the “loop” and rejoined the core engine development team, leading a team of Program Managers responsible for query optimization, query execution, data warehousing, and scale-out.

Before joining Microsoft, Lubor was developing DB2 engines for various OS platforms in IBM laboratories in Toronto and Santa Teresa, including the first version of DB2 on Unix. His last project at IBM was development of IBM's first scale-out DB solution, DB2 Parallel Edition, which shipped in 1995.

Davide Mauri is a Solid Quality Mentor and a member of the Board of Directors of Solid Quality Learning Italia. A well known Microsoft SQL Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional), MCP, MCAD, MCDBA, and MCT, and acclaimed speaker at international SQL Server conferences, Davide enjoys working with T-SQL, Relational Modeling and studying the theory behind it. Additionally, he is well grounded in Reporting Services, .NET and the object-oriented principles, and has a very good and deep knowledge on Integration Services and Analysis Services, giving him a well rounded area of expertise around the Microsoft Data Platform, allowing him to have the correct vision and experience to handle development of complex business intelligence solution. He is a course author for Solid Quality Mentors, including the seminars about Upgrading to SQL 2008, co-author of the book "Smart Businees Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008" and author of the well-known DTExec replacemente tool DTLoggedExec (http://dtloggedexec.davidemauri.it)

Dejan Sarka focuses on development of database & business intelligence applications.  Besides projects, he spends about half of the time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. Dejan Sarka is the main author or coauthor of nine books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan Sarka also developed two courses for Solid Quality Mentors - Data Modeling Essentials and Data Mining with SQL Server 2008.
As an MCT, Dejan Sarka speaks on many local and international events. Some of the international events include conferences such as PASS, TechEd, and DevWeek. He is also indispensable on regional MS events. In addition, he is a co-organizer of a technically top-level conference Bleeding Edge.

Grega Jerkič is an independent consultant working for Solid Quality Mentors. For last 10 years, he has been developing, architecting and managing different projects focusing on data warehousing, mdm, data integration, analytical / planning solutions and predictive analytics mostly with Microsoft technology. He invented and was lead architect for predefined business intelligence solution on top of ERP Microsoft Dynamics NAV – BI4Dynamics (www.bi4dynamics.com). BI4 is now used world wide by more than 150+ clients and got two awards by Microsoft for best business intelligence solution for CEE region.
Grega has vast experience with different business intelligence vendors and specific data warehouse appliances and is also an official trainer for IBM Cognos, educating larger clients in EMEA region.
He does not only have strong technical skills, but is also investing in business knowledge and is an active member of international controlling organization ICV

Herbert Albert is an MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, MCDBA, and MCT in SQL Server. He is a SQL Server trainer, consultant and Managing Director of the Central Europe Subsidiary. His knowledge covers a wide spectrum of Microsoft Technologies and Network Architecture, although his focus is mainly in SQL Server. He is co-author of "SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide”  and “SQL Server 2005 Step-by-Step Applied Techniques”, Microsoft Press 2006

Milos Radivojevic is an MCP and MCT in SQL Server. He has more than ten years experience implementing database and software solutions in the MS environment.  His primary focus is on database development and performance tuning for OLTP systems, but has also respectable knowledge across the BI and DWH. He is a regular speaker at different conferences.

Margarita Naumova is a very well-known Bulgarian SQL Expert. Magi holds the highest possible SQL Server Technical Certification in the field - Microsoft Certified Master, making her one of the best SQL Server Experts Worldwide. She has more than 15 years of SQL Server and BI technologies consulting and training experience gained in Bulgaria and abroad and is a trusted advisor for major Bulgarian customers in the SQL Server Platform Area.
Margarita is a leader and founder of Bulgarian SQL & BI User Group "Let's SQL Together" and is a regular presenter of the largest IT events in Bulgaria. She has been awarded as a Top Presenter of Microsoft Days 2010 Conference and as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP.
Currently she works as a Managing Partner and Chief SQL Architect of Inspirit - her own newly established consulting company. She is a founder and author of SQL Master Academy Training Program. Profile links: www.inspirit.bg; www.sqlmasteracademy.com

Dean is a mentor for SolidQ and a DB designer/developer for one of the major ISVs in Croatia.He has been working with SQL Server since version 6.0.Earned several MS certificates (MCSD, MCSD .Net, MCDBA, MCITP).He was awarded MS MVP for SQL Server every year since 2007 and manages the local MS community, and right now being busy organizing a Croatian SQL Server user group as well as Organized and helped organize several regional conferences and community events. He speaks regularly at events throughout the region, and writes about SQL Server for some local technical magazines.

Zoltán Hangyál, Database Engineer, LogMeIn. He is one of the first Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM), Zoltan has 13+ years of SQL Server experience, starting with SQL Server 7.0. In addition to working with core SQL engine functionality, he also has experience working with BI related projects. His primary tasks have been developing, coordinating, managing SQL Server projects, and training end users. After 9 years of consulting he worked as an MCT specialized in SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008. Last year he moved to a market leader software development company which produces remote access software. Currently he is working as a performance tuning specialist and he served as a subject matter expert for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Database Development exam (70-433).

Gianluca Hotz is an independent consultant specializing in architecture, high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning and database design for SQL Server. Gianluca has been working in the IT field since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1996 starting with version 4.2 on Windows NT. Besides consulting he also works in the training field and has been in charge of the SQL Server courses for the largest Italian CTEC (Mondadori Informatica Education). He also supports Microsoft Italy on the field and as a speaker at local conferences. Gianluca founded the Italian User Group for SQL Server and he is the vice- president, in his spare time he helps out in users in newsgroups and has been a SQL Server MVP since 1998.

Matija Lah, formally a university graduate of law, has been involved in information management since the nineties. His first introduction to SQL Server in IUS Software d.o.o. Slovenija has later culminated in a new career developing data-centric solutions and consulting. His contributions to the SQL Server community have led to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in 2007 (Windows Server System SQL Server).

Fernando G. Guerrero co-founded SolidQ at the end of 2002, with a select group of SQL Server experts, to support the most demanding needs of advanced SQL Server systems. Fernando was elected as CEO and President of this dynamic and amazing company from day one.
As president and Global CEO, Fernando is responsible of international activities of the company, as well as overall global corporate directions.
Fernando graduated as Civil Engineer, Politecnic Universities of Valencia and Madrid, and holds almost 30 years of professional experience in IT systems design and development, typically as part of high-end international engineering projects.
He is a recognized speaker at most international Conferences about Microsoft technologies.
Fernando is a Microsoft Regional Director for Spain, holding several Microsoft certifications, and received the MVP award for SQL Server from 2000 to 2007.
As member of the Board of Directors of ACT (Association for Competitive Technology), he participates in international forums about IP Protection and support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Rok Bermež is Slovenian Windows Azure MVP, he works as a Software Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Kompas Xnet. His primary interests include cloud computing and web development. With extensive experience in development and architecture he participated in many projects and since the CTP release of Windows Azure much of those projects are based on Windows Azure platform. Rok has been delivering courses, writing code and speaking at conferences and community events on Microsoft technologies for the last couple of years. You can find him at http://xblogs.kompas-xnet.si/ and on Twitter (@Rok_B).