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Rob Collie

Excel geek, Business Intelligence professional, all-around data enthusiast, and one of the founding engineers behind PowerPivot at Microsoft during his 14 year career in Redmond.  Currently CTO of Pivotstream LLC, a consulting and SaaS firm specializing in the delivery of actionable analytics to the Retail, CPG, and Pharmaceutical industries.

At Pivotstream, Rob literally puts his money where his mouth is, and applies PowerPivot directly as a core component of the Pivotstream platform and product line.  OK, more accurately, Rob puts his own money as well as the money of his partners at Pivotstream where his mouth is.  So don’t think for a moment that PowerPivot is a hobby, it’s deadly serious for all involved.  (The fact that he enjoys his work is a welcome and acknowledged bonus.)

Rob also heads up the PowerPivot Consulting and Training practice at Pivotstream, which provides clients with a wide range of services from planning and strategy up through end to end deployment and configuration of a full PowerPivot system that is customized to your organization’s needs.  Hands-on training with PowerPivot client and server is also available.  Contact rob@pivotstream.com for more information.

Rob is one mean quoter of movies.  He provides this service free of charge.

Follow Rob on Twitter:  @powerpivotpro

Kasper de Jonge

Kasper de Jonge is a Microsoft BI consultant for ADA ICT in The Netherlands, where he designs and implements solutions using all products from the MS BI stack.  or example corporate BI using SharePoint to near real time reporting in the cloud. With a background as a developer, Kasper is very aware of what goes on beneath the surface of the MS BI products.

In 2007 he started blogging on MS BI at http://www.powerpivotblog.nl.  There you will find many in-depth posts on PowerPivot, SSRS 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010, PerformancePoint and anything else that might come up.

With the release of PowerPivot CTP2 in November 2009, Kasper jumped into PowerPivot and has been using it literally every day since then.  Kasper finds PowerPivot to be an extremely useful and powerful tool even though he comes from a strong developer background, and as such his posts are a very useful addition to PowerPivotPro as a complement to Rob’s Excel-focused background.

Kasper dominates American BI specialists (like Rob) on the basketball court, and provides this service free of charge.

Follow Kasper on Twitter:  @kjonge