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Michael Jenkin is a recently announced 2012 SMB 150 Awards recipient, recognizing the top 150 Small & Medium Business professionals. In addition, Michael received media attention for founding a rapidly growing company and  for his innovative business leadership. Sharing his insights for success...

Jerrard Gaertner CA•IT/CISA, CEGIT, CISSP, CIPP/IT, CIA, CFI, I.S.P., ITCP Jerrard Gaertner is Director, Technology Assurance Services at a major accountancy and advisory firm. He is a graduate of MIT and a chartered accountant specializing in information technology and information systems auditing...

Jeff Kempiners is the Vice President and acting Group Executive responsible for Avanade's business in the Southeastern USA. Jeff has held a variety of leadership roles within Avanade, including Group Executive for Central Canada, Canadian Chief Technology Officer, and Director of Consulting for the Canadian...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have an interview with Dharmesh Mehta interview: Director, Windows and Windows Live Division Microsoft Corp. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki As director of product management and product...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have an interview with Barry Sellers: CNP Torch Bearer Award Recipient. CNP Torch Bearer Award honors senior members of the computing profession who have made an outstanding contribution...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have an interview with Mark Mueller-Eberstein. Mark’s most recent book has the endorsement of top leaders worldwide and his no-fear community engages 100,000 executives and...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have an interview with Dr. Balaji Venkataraman: Top Global Educational and ICT Authority and Visionary, Director Technology & Knowledge Management Commonwealth of Learning, World...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have a ChinaValue interview with Nova Spivack that I conducted with Alex Lin (CEO of ChinaValue ). I highly recommend that you read over the full-text of the interview which is provided...

Please note that the GITCA “24 Hours in the Cloud” round-the-world virtual event focusing on Cloud Computing is scheduled for June 1 st . The speakers will be available via twitter to answer your questions [tweet using #24hitC to submit a question]. Please visit http://sp.GITCA.org/sites/24Hours to find...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Bojan Nenadic, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner – The Aspiring Microsoft Certified Master. I was at TechEd in May in Atlanta Georgia and met with the Career Factor winners...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview the Hon. Naomi Yamamoto. Naomi Yamamoto was elected as MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale in the 2009 general provincial election and was appointed Minister of Advanced...

You have seen the recommendations from Microsoft General Manager Neil Leslie , IFIP President Leon Strous , Executive Director for the Center of Enterprise Architecture Brian Cameron , College President of HMC and Corporate Board Director Maria Klawe , Global Chairs GITCA Graham Jones and Ashwin Kini...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Caroline Weilinger, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner – The Office Competition Contender. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki Caroline is a student at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary,...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Steve Molkentin, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner – The Job Seeker. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki Steve is a passionate IT professional who firmly believes that Information...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Leon Strous: President International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Chair International Advisory Board World CIO Forum (WCF), Chair International Steering...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Eddie Boles, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner – The DIY IT Professional. Career Factor winners will be at TechEd. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki Born and raised in Harlem, NY...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Brian Cameron: Professor and Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Architecture, Penn State, Founder FEAPO – Part 2 of 2 interview series. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Kevin Dicken: Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner – in the category as The Student. Kevin will also be at TechEd as a Career Factor Idol. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Neil Simon, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner in Cloud Computing – The Azure Developer, Chief Scientist and Senior Engineer, Keynote Session Speaker "24 Hours in...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Rabeb Othmani, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner in the category of “Windows Phone 7 Developer”. Rabeb is also an Imagine Cup Winner. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki Rabeb is a...

As Damir wrote in his last post , he and I are in Montreal this week for the Align IT tour . But instead of popping in and out just to speak tomorrow morning to IT managers, we’re also here to connect with local IT professionals and technology aficionados. So if you fall in one of the aforementioned...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Professor K.K. Aggarwal, Founder Vice-Chancellor (1998-2008) G.G.S. Indraprastha University, SEARCC President (2008-2010), CSI President (2007-2009), President IETE (2002...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Niko Schlamberger, International ICT Executive and Top-Ranking ICT Authority for Business, Industry, Governments, Academia, Journals, Regional and Global Organizations....

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Neil Leslie, General Manager Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (DPE), past Vice President of MSIT, Microsoft Corporation. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki Neil Leslie...