EMEA Tour on Tuesday October 13

Aldo is a co-founder of Omni Technology Solutions Inc. (Omni). Since 1999, Omni has focused on creating and marketing software products that provide real, tangible and valuable benefits to companies that use Novell GroupWise and eDirectory solutions and mixed Novell and Microsoft environments. Omni is focused on delivering customer pain relief in the areas of Web-based, "ZERO Rights", delegated user account managed for GroupWise, eDirectory, Active Directory and Exchange (eControl) and Managed GroupWise Policies, CRM / ERP and third-party integration with GroupWise (Riva).

Dean has been writing/managing enterprise software for 17 years. He has been the direct manager for all of the GroupWise clients, including Windows, Linux and Mac. He also has managed the Administration Team, which produces the ConsoleOne plug-ins for GroupWise. Dean teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Business, Computer Science and Information Technology programs at the University of Phoenix. Currently Dean is the Director of Engineering for GroupWise and thus responsible for the development of all future versions as well as maintenance of the current versions.

After several years working at Novell as a consultant, and many, many more working with Novell technologies, Dave is now the CTO at Messaging Architects in the UK and thus heading up the operations.

David is Senior Technical Consultant at Altman Technologies. His technical expertise is in print & copy management, email management, auditing & security and directory services management. David has worked extensively in Netware environments, his particular area of expertise is Auditing and Security.

Dean has been writing/managing enterprise software for 17 years. He has been the direct manager for all of the GroupWise clients, including Windows, Linux and Mac. He also has managed the Administration Team, which produces the ConsoleOne plug-ins for GroupWise. Dean teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Business, Computer Science and Information Technology programs at the University of Phoenix. Currently Dean is the Director of Engineering for GroupWise and thus responsible for the development of all future versions as well as maintenance of the current versions.

Erno has been supporting GroupWise since it was still called WordPerfect Office, with a special interest in integration of document management, workflow, CRM and PDA's. As an MCNE and MCNI, he has delivered training and consulting throughout the world. Erno has been a speaker on BrainShare, Summits and NUI events. Erno has been one of authors of the Novell Press "GroupWise 7.0 Administrator Solution Guide" and the lead author of “The GroupWise Powerguide". Erno has also written many articles for several magazines and is one of the initiators of the Open Horizons magazine.

Horst is the CEO of SKyPro, a 20 year old Swiss firm based in Cham, near Zurich. SKyPRO provides custom programming and large scale system integration and implementation services in the areas of Novell applications and Identity Management. Current and past clients include Swisscom, Swisscard, UBS, Credit Suisse, Novell, and Microsoft, plus many others.

Ian Stimpson is a Senior Technical Consultant at Novell focusing on Systems Management & Endpoint Security solutions for the UK. In recent years he has had a particular focus in achieving compliance against various industry regulations. Ian is responsible for ensuring Novell's solutions meet the criteria within the various markets within the UK and over the last 2 years most of his time has been spend on helping organisation's to lower cost and mitigate risk. Ian holds a BSC in Business Information Technology from Brunel University in the UK.

John has been working in IT for many years and has been working with GroupWise for 14 years, for two blue-chip organisations.  John is a founder member and previous chairman of the UK Groupware User Group.  Lately he has been working on a project migrating to MS-Exchange, so now he really appreciates the strengths of GroupWise!

Mark is a Senior Consultant at NDS8 since 2004 with a long background with Linux technologies, having first deployed Linux as far back as 1999. Mark has diversified into Clustering and core Novell technologies, such as OES, and spent a few years as a SysOp on Novell's support forums. Recently he did a lot of work with Netware to Linux Migrations, and XEN virtualisation in SLES 11. Mark is also an accredited technical trainer and a regular presenter at conferences in the UK and USA, on topics such as Samba, Clustering and OES Best Practices.

Robin has worked with Novell collaboration solutions for over twenty years. He has held jobs in a number of technical roles. Initially starting in technical support then moving to IS & T and most recently, working as a consultant where he helped on collaboration projects throughout Europe, The Middle East and Africa. Currently he works with GroupWise and Teaming in a pre sales technical role based in the UK. He is a regular speaker at BrainShare, Open Horizons and other conferences.