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Will Morganweck - Active Modules, Inc.
Will Morgenweck has been developing web applications using Microsoft technologies since 1995. In 2004, he created Active Modules, Inc., a software company based in Charleston, SC, specializing in modular software development. Active Modules introduced its first commercial module in March of 2004 and has added four additional products since that time. Active Modules consists of four full-time and two part-time employees. In addition, Active Modules will be releasing four new products before the end of 2006.

Bill Phelan - CEO, FlatBurger, Inc.
With over 20 years of operating, managing, and technical and financial experience, Bill Phelan is an accomplished entrepreneur and leader. Mr. Phelan was founder and CEO of OneMade, Inc., a venture financed firm that operated an "eBay like" e-commerce marketplace exchange, which was successfully sold to America Online (NYSE: TWX) in May 2003.

Prior to that, Mr. Phelan led the acquisition of Florists Transworld Delivery, Inc., and served as the Chief Strategist and COO of the firm's technology and network services business. FTD™ is the world's largest floral technology services organization in the world connecting over 20,000 domestic florists and over 40,000 international florists through an e-commerce floral order exchange, the Mercury Network™. FTD™ also operates the most popular consumer facing e-commerce system to route floral orders directly to participants in the Mercury Network™ through FTD.com. FTD™ was sold to Leonard Green and Associates in February 2004 and subsequently taken public (NYSE:FTD).

Joshua McWilliam - CTO, FlatBurger, Inc.
Joshua McWilliam is the primary technical resource and evangelist for FlatBurger's third-party relationships, both in the United States and overseas. Prior to joining the FlatBurger team, Mr. McWilliam designed and implemented systems in various industries, including banking, insurance, and customer service. As CTO and co-founder of an online retailer of performance auto parts, he managed the development of an e-commerce system which controlled an inventory of tens of thousands of parts and automatically processed orders from their many manufacturers and distributors. He also managed an online marketing campaign that increased the company's sales by 400%. As a Senior Software Engineer at AOL, Mr. McWilliam was responsible for architecting the localization, co-branding, member management and search systems for the AOL Classifieds system. The search system enabled detailed searching and logging of data by an unlimited number of custom attributes per category, and powered all of AOL's Careers and Work channel via its proprietary API.

Mr. McWilliam has worn many hats at FlatBurger, beginning as a co-founder of the company. He was the first member of the company to begin working with the DotNetNuke platform, and has a significant amount of experience with both the technical aspects and business use of the software. As a DotNetNuke Core Team Project Leader, Josh is FlatBurger’s primary interface with the DotNetNuke Community, and is tasked with ensuring FlatBurger can help guide DotNetNuke to its full potential.

Andrew Brooks - Mural Ventures
Mural Consulting is the leader in the SaaS consulting and enablement services to ISVs and Service Providers worldwide. We bridge the gap between SaaS strategy and execution through packaged offerings that include business/market analysis, technology and architecture definition, and go-to-market execution. We have consulted with sales, marketing, operations and product management executives in over 120 global service providers, from small pure-plays and hosters to the largest telecommunications providers. Current clients include Microsoft, British Telecom, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Cobweb, NTT America, VIA Networks and more. We bring the knowledge and power of these relationships to each of our clients. We measure the success of our client engagements in the simplest manner possible, typically sales and revenue results. If you’re interested in launching a SaaS solution, partnering with a global channel to deliver your solution, or optimize the sales results of a solution you already have in market, Mural Consulting can work directly with your team to translate strategy into execution and results.
 

Scott McCulloch - Ventrian Systems
Scott McCulloch (MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA) works as an Application Developer for his own module development company, Ventrian Systems. At 28 years of age, Scott holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Computer Science, as well as the three major Microsoft Certifications (MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE).
Scott has been part of the DotNetNuke community since the project began (late December, 2002) and runs a popular site dedicated to producing modules, skins & skin objects (www.ventrian.com). Today, his role within the DotNetNuke team is contributing as an Architect and Core Developer and has co-authored both official Wrox books.

Ventrian Systems is a unique software development company focusing on the DotNetNuke Application Framework. Ventrian offers a unique subscription based service for access to all their products from as little as $20. All subscriptions include full access to the member’s section including modules, skins, skin objects and complete source code. Ventrian also offer custom development and off the shelf modules at www.ventrian.com.

Peter Donker - Bring2Mind
Peter Donker graduated as architect in Delft (Netherlands) and continued to do a PhD in technical sciences. His doctoral thesis examined and modeled discourse of decision making in design teams. He then worked for the Dutch “top-tech” IT research institute, the Telematica Institute, among other in the field of Knowledge Management. 2002 saw a change of heart as he left career and country behind to move in with his wife in Switzerland where he began developing intranet solutions (first in his trusted ASP/VBScript, later in .NET) from the comfort of their own home. In 2003 he discovered DotNetNuke and has not looked back since. He is married to Caroline, a primary school teacher in Neuchâtel, and has a daughter of almost 4 years called Méline. Each winter, Peter takes a break from his desk for several weeks and becomes a ski instructor in the resort of Champéry, Switzerland. He also enjoys hang gliding in summer, weather and time permitting.

Bring2mind was founded in 2004 by Peter Donker as he started developing modules for the growing DNN community. At first free, these modules were developed to suit the needs of the various inter/intranet jobs Peter was doing. As he discovered the true potential of DNN and the market it was opening, he began to test the commercial waters with a module that would do ‘document management’. At the time there was no module that would do granular security on documents or versioning. In August 2004 v1 of Document Exchange (or DMX) was launched and Bring2mind soon became a well established name in the DNN commercial eco system. 2005 saw the launch of v3 of DMX and a host of custom projects related to the module. Customers include companies from just about every domain (financial, legal, manufacturing, public sector) or size (from Sharp to the city of Snowqualmie, WA USA). Bring2mind custom projects include high security and multi-lingual variations of DMX.

Scott Schecter - Schecter Technology Solutions
Schecter Technology Solutions is a privately-held development and consulting firm whose central focus is providing agile open source solutions based on Microsoft .NET technologies. The company was founded by Scott Schecter in 2005 as a vehicle to showcase various projects he was working on and provide consulting services to the public. From the beginning the company has focused on DotNetNuke related consulting services and software packages with this tradition continuing today. Our belief is the best software is the software you can actually use, so we focus on agile methodologies to bring our customers the latest and greatest of .NET technologies available. Schecter Technology Solutions also believes in and supports open source software. All products sold/services provided come with source code at no additional cost to the user.

Scott Schecter is currently employed as a Programmer Analyst for the Lycoming County Government , a Solutions Architect for EntitySpaces, and President of Schecter Technology Solutions. He currently resides in Williamsport, PA. When not coding, which is pretty rare, Scott's other passions include lossless audio, live music, travel, and camping.

Jeff Smith - Venexus
Venexus, Inc. was incorporated in Raleigh, North Carolina in January 2004. Venexus is a Business Service Provider (BSP) that develops, integrates, and provides hosting for business processes. Venexus provides a rare synthesis of ‘best of breed’ technology: value added offerings and highly desirable pricing to small businesses throughout the U.S. Venexus is a launching pad for new enterprises. It provides a comprehensive business incubator, a system of business process management, a Web of professional relationships, a strategy designed to enable entrepreneurs to fulfill their dreams.

Mr. Smith is the Chief Executive Officer for Venexus and is the developer of the company’s virtual business services platform. Mr. Smith holds a BBA in Business Information Systems Management from the University of West Georgia and has over 10 years of experience in business information systems and small business management.
 

Malik Khan - PointClick Technologies
Malik Khan has over 11 years of diversified experience in management, systems analysis, Networking, and business development. He has more than six years experience running his own company AKHAN, Inc. which he started in 2000. AKHAN, Inc. is a North Carolina IT Solutions Provider developing Microsoft solutions for small to medium sized businesses. Prior to AKHAN, Mr. Khan worked for Manpower, Inc. where he established and maintained IT Operations for the largest Manpower Franchise in North America. Previously, Malik had worked for MCI WorldCom as a sales manager at their Alpharetta, Georgia call center. Malik studied Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and also holds several industry certifications including Microsoft’s MSCE, Cisco’s CCNA, & Comptia’s Network+. Malik currently lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife and 3 year old son.

Stephen Potts - FlatBurger, Inc.
With over 17 years of professional software engineering and management experience, Stephen Potts is an accomplished leader and software architect. He has held research and development positions for both bleeding-edge start-ups and established Fortune 100 companies.

Formerly at Microsoft, Mr. Potts was responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and managing the critical Windows Logo, Windows Update and Windows Error Reporting web services. He was also responsible for securing, motivating, and supporting third party software and hardware vendors for Windows, as well as identifying and generating new market opportunities while streamlining the developer channel.

Previously at Verio, a wholly-owned foreign subsidiary of NTT Communications, Mr. Potts managed three product lines generating more than $50 million in annual revenue. In addition, he developed and maintained many important vendor relationships, managed company intellectual property, spearheaded the multi-lingual branding initiative to provide multiple language access to over half a million websites and co-architected Verio's multi-lingual domain-registration product that contributed to more than $30 million in revenue since 2000.

Prior to that, Mr. Potts architected, designed, and supported tools and databases used by the FBI, CIA, and other information professionals for the leading national information repository at Choicepoint resulting in a 11% increase in sales and an 19.5% decrease in support expense.

Tracy Wittenkeller - T-WORX, Inc.
T-WORX, INC. is an accomplished professional graphic design group that delivers results through a wide range of capabilities including Web Design & Development, Flash and PowerPoint Presentation Media and Print Design. T-WORX, INC. is also a frontrunner in DotNetNuke skinning design and development and is seen as the market leader for professional DotNetNuke skins.

T-WORX, INC. is committed to helping clients strengthen their business through strategic planning and exemplary design. Intelligent and passionate, t-worx's approach results in fresh, targeted design that adds value to their clients’ business. From their Boca Raton office, T-WORX, INC. has established a far-reaching reputation and attracted a diverse client list -- from blue-chip corporate to small business entities.

T-WORX, INC.’s customers include thousands of developers and professionals worldwide who utilize t-worx products for their own client offerings and span a multi-industry continuum that includes media and marketing companies, information technology providers, healthcare and hospital organizations, educational institutions, real estate firms, financial institutions, consulting firms and entertainment/communication companies.

Tracy Wittenkeller is recognized as a leader in his field with over 17 years of managerial and design experience. Tracy has completed successful engagements for a variety of high-profile clientele spanning multiple platforms of design and development.

In 2005, Tracy started T-WORX, inc., a company that delivers design and development solutions through a wide range of capabilities to companies worldwide. In less than two years, T-WORX has become one of the frontrunners in DotNetNuke (DNN) skinning design and development and has established a reputation as the market leader for professional DNN skins. Tracy is currently specializing in design and development for DNN and the .NET community.