Natalia Efimsteva

Natalia has been involved with Microsoft technologies since her university years. She has worked in Microsoft for over 4 years starting in Microsoft Russia Consulting Services (MCS). Now Natalia actively works as Partner Technical Consultant in Global Partner Services Russia. Her main areas of interest and specializations are core development for Windows environment and also .NET, SharePoint, SOA and system integration and interoperability.

You can contact Natalia via E-mail: natale@microsoft.com

Iftekhar Hussain

Iftekhar has been a Partner Technology Consultant with Microsoft for enabling Partners to position, sell and deploy Microsoft Virtualization and Private Cloud Solutions by providing end to end consulting, He specializes in Server Virtualization, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Application Virtualization, Virtualization Management and Private Cloud Solutions.

As a part of Microsoft Partner Services team, He has delivered many webcast to Partners in EMEA, North America and Australia on Microsoft Virtualization and Windows Platforms to evangelize, create awareness of new Microsoft technologies and drive adoption.

Iftekhar is one of the presenters in delivery team of Server Virtualization and Advance Management Practice Accelerator for North America but also delivered Virtualization PA in Singapore, India and Australia. He has also featured as speaker in premier Microsoft conferences like TechEd India 2010 and TechEd 2010 North America and TechEd Europe 2010 and Microsoft Management Summit 2011.

Iftekhar runs his own blog (http://blogs.technet.com/iftekhar) and you can also follow him on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/iftekharh)

Simone Pace

Simone lives in a small town close to Varese in the very North side of Italy just under the Monte Rosa alps mountain range.

He has been working in Microsoft since March 2004 as a Technical Consultant and before that was a Network System Engineer in a large size travel company in Italy with 2000+ Active Directory and Exchange users.

Simone has a strong IT Pro knowledge background and is now focusing on advanced system management with Microsoft technologies like System Center and Windows Intune, Exchange and other technologies as a generalist.

In his spare time, Simone loves playing computer games (especially RPG), playing guitar and reading.

LinkedIn http://it.linkedin.com/pub/simone-pace/1/292/216

Sean Earp

Sean is a Program Manager on the Partner Technical Services team, focusing on offerings in the BPIO (Information Worker) space.  His primary technical passions lie with SharePoint, but also loves working with Active Directory, Virtualization, Project Server, SQL Server, Windows PowerShell, client-side web development, and anything security related.

Outside of work, Sean is a dad to 3 great kids, is finishing up a degree, and training for a marathon in Dublin.

In his copious spare time, he also enjoys blogging about whatever catches his attention at http://blogs.technet.com/b/seanearp.

Anil Malekani

Anil has been a Partner Consultant with Microsoft for the last year with over 5 years of industry experience working on Microsoft solutions. Anil specializes in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), System Center Essentials (SCE), Application Virtualization and Active Directory Right Management services. Anil Lives in Bangalore, India and is finishing up his Master’s degree. In his spare time he enjoys reading novels and finished a Marathon in 2010.

You can follow Anil on Twitter (http://twitter.com/anilmalekani)

Sarkis Derbedrossian

Sarkis works as Partner Technical Advisor and Presales Consultant with focus on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Together with his team they assist partners located in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Island.

Sarkis has been working in the Partner channel as CRM consultant before he started his career at Microsoft. He is very passionate about Microsoft Dynamics CRM and in his words “Every business needs a Microsoft CRM solution”.

Priyo Lahiri

Priyo has been working as a Partner Technical Consultant for Microsoft for the past 7 years. On a day to day basis he works with Partners in the North America region with presales and advisory guidance on SharePoint products and Technologies. Apart from SharePoint he also works on Business Intelligence with SQL Reporting Services and Integration Services.

Priyo is also one of the presenters of the Practice Accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and was responsible for customizing the current content to fit SMB Sector needs.

In his spare time he loves to shoot people in Call of Duty and build civilizations in Age of Empires!

Bryan Petersen

Bryan is a Partner Technical Consultant on the Partner Technical Services team, primarily focusing on the Online Services offerings. His technical passions lie with The Cloud, but he also loves working with SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Active Directory, and the OS. Bryan has worked at Microsoft for just over 10 years carrying various roles in Customer Service and Support and expanding many different technologies from Dynamics, to PerformancePoint Server, and then to the Microsoft cloud.

Outside of work, Bryan is a dad to 2 kids, enjoys running, playing football with his son, and catching up on all things financial – primarily Mad Money. His favorite past time is fishing for Walleye in the beautiful lakes and rivers of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota.

Anand Nigam

Anand is a SharePoint Consultant at Microsoft where he has been working on SharePoint since 2006. He is a former SharePoint support engineer. Currently Anand is a Partner Technical Consultant helping partner to realize the true power of SharePoint. He is MCTS in SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Anand has dedicated quite some time with Integration of SharePoint 2010 with CRM 4.0 and CRM 2011. Anand is one of the presenters for the Practice Accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for North America.

Himankini Shah

Himankini is an Associate Consultant at Microsoft. She works on Microsoft technologies, primarily SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 and Office 365. She works with Microsoft partners, enabling them to plan, design, sell, deploy and migrate SharePoint and Office 365 solutions. She has delivered many technical webcasts in North America on Microsoft SharePoint Server and Office 365- Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online to create awareness and help partners adopt Microsoft technologies. Himankini has also delivered Practice Accelerators in North America region on Microsoft SharePoint Server and has also recorded sessions for TechNet Edge.

Rohit Kochher

Rohit is a Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft for over 1.5 years. He has been working on Microsoft Technologies for more than 5 years and specializes in Windows Active Directory and System Center Operations Manager.

Recently, Rohit worked as Intern Premier Field Engineer for 6 months in South East Asia region. He delivered workshops, assisted in deployments, and performed troubleshooting for Premier customers during that period. Prior to his role as a Partner Technical Consultant, he have worked as Senior Support Engineer with the Active Directory team. Outside of work, Rohit loves to travel to different places and listen to all kinds of music.

Yashkumar Tolia

Yashkumar Tolia has been a part of Global Partner Services for two years now as an Associate COnsultant working on various Microsoft virtualization technologies. He specializes in RDS, App-V and VDI solutions using Microsoft and Citrix technologies. Yash is also well-versed in Active Directory and Windows Server. His daily engagements are a mixture of interactive workshops, pre-sales discussions, and design/deployment scenarios. He is involved in community projects as well, is an avid reader, and a music lover.

Krishan Kant Mehta

Krishan Kant Mehta is Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft enabling Partners to position, sell, and deploy Microsoft Exchange Solutions by providing end to end consulting.
As a part of Microsoft Partner Services team, he has delivered many technical workshops and demos to Partners in North America and Canada regions on Microsoft Exchange Server to evangelize, create awareness of new Microsoft technologies and drive adoption.