Brian Noyes
Noyes is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Mid-Atlantic region, which includes Washington, D.C., and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with over 16 years of programming, engineering, and project management experience. He specializes in smart client architecture and development, as well as presentation tier technologies. Noyes’ previous two books Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce and Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 continue to be best sellers, and is a top-rated speaker on the INETA Speakers Bureau. Noyes also has long term experience in the government sector, having worked for defense and federal agencies as a software developer and architect and as a government software project manager while on active duty in the Navy. Noyes got started with programming to stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the Navy and is a Top Gun and Test Pilot School graduate.
Gregory Brill
Brill brings extensive banking and finance information technology project experience to the Company. He is founder and president of Infusion Development Corporation, a technology training and consulting firm that specializes in architecting and implementing high-performance trading and market-monitoring systems for Wall Street investment banks. Infusion Development’s clients include Dun & Bradstreet, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, The Bank of New York, State Street Bank, and Wachovia. Brill is the creator and series editor of the CodeNotes series of technical books and has written numerous technology articles for industry publications. In addition, Brill is Partner and Founder of Infusion Angels, a Toronto based ’angel’ investment firm whose goal is to identify, fund, and help grow concepts into full fledged, revenue-oriented companies. Brill holds an MS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a BA in English Literature.
Nicole Denil
Denil is the VP of Sales & Marketing at Sitemasher. She has tallied more than 18 years of experience in high-tech and international business. Denil’s experience includes managing Microsoft’s small and medium business and mass-market segments for Latin America, and leading its server and tools business in Caribbean and Central America to top worldwide revenue growth. Prior to Microsoft, Denil served Rockwell’s Automation and Software divisions for 10 years, compiling a track record of breakthrough growth in the businesses she managed.
Robert Fisher
Fisher has served as the CFO and COO of several startup companies where he was directly responsible for all aspects of the financial management and reporting. As CFO, he prepared for and oversaw the successful acquisition of three startups: Texere LLC (2004), Triad Data, Inc. (1998), and Vertex Business Systems (1995). In addition to his duties as CFO at these startups, Fisher has developed employee policies & procedures manuals, implemented 401(k) plans and managed all aspects of employee health care benefits packages. Earlier in his career, Fisher served as Controller for the Global Petroleum division of Chase Manhattan Bank and for the Private International Banking division. He received his MBA from Iona College (1977) and his BS in Accounting from Iona College (1973).
Stephen Rosenthal
Rosenthal has an impressive background as a trial lawyer in both public and private sectors. He is currently partner at Podhurst Orseck, P.A., a boutique litigation firm in Miami, where he specializes in appeals and complex litigation. Rosenthal’s practice spans tort and commercial work, as well as labor and employment and election law. He has an “AV” rating from Martindale Hubbell and is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Prior to entering private practice, Rosenthal served as an attorney at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on behalf of federal agencies and their employees. Early in his career, he served as a law clerk to two federal judges: Judge Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and to Judge Mark Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Rosenthal has also worked for an international management consulting firm in Spain and the U.S. Department of State in Central America. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School (JD, cum laude, 1996) and Harvard College (AB, magna cum laude, 1992).