Alex Chow has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision, since 1999. Over the years, he has conducted hundreds of implementations across multiple industries. His customers range from $2-million-a-year small enterprises to $500-million-a-year multinational corporations.

Over the course of his Dynamics NAV career, he has often been designated as the primary person responsible for the success and failure of Dynamics NAV implementations. The fact that Alex is still in the Dynamics NAV business means that he's been pretty lucky so far. His extensive career in the Dynamics NAV business is evidence of his success rate and expertise.

With a background in implementing all functions and modules inside and outside of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Alex has encountered and resolved the most practical to the most complex requirements and business rules. Through these experiences, he has learned that sometimes you have to be a little crazy to have a competitive edge.

Believing that sharing these experiences and knowledge would benefit the Dynamics NAV community, Alex writes about his journey at www.dynamicsnavconsultant.com. He founded AP Commerce (www.apcommerce.com) in 2005. It is a full-service Dynamics NAV service center. In addition, Alex has written a book about Dynamics NAV titled Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development by Packt Publishing.

He lives in southern California with his beautiful wife and two lovely daughters. He considers himself the luckiest man in the world.

Mark Brummel is a teacher and evangelist for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, focused in helping partners and end users of the product.

With NAV-Skills.com he evangelizes and documents the "NAV way". This is a combination of architectural principles and design best practices formalized in a workshop called Master Class for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Application Architecture and Design Patterns. The methodology helps in creating solutions that are easy to upgrade, recognizable for users, and maintainable outside of the ecosystem of their creators. All three elements apply to the original Navision product that shipped in 1995 and are extracted, updated, and documented in this methodology. In September 2015, his new book Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns was published which is about this methodology. He also organizes hands on workshops together with a group of MVPs and MCTs all across the globe.

He started in 1997 as an end user and worked eight years for NAV partners after that. Designing and maintaining add-on systems was his specialization. Some of these add-on systems exceed the standard product where it comes to size and complexity. Coaching colleagues and troubleshooting complex problems are his passion and part of his day to day work. His first book, Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design, was published in 2010 and updated to Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design when a new release became available.

Many end users of Microsoft Dynamics NAV struggle with questions about how to upgrade their two-tier solution to a three-tier solution. Mark can help you answer these questions and plot a roadmap to the future, retaining the investment in the solution.

When Microsoft introduced the three-tier architecture in 2009 it meant a major shift for experienced NAV developers and consultant. Mark has trained most of them in The Netherlands and Belgium.

In 2015 Mark got the NAVUG All-Star award on behalf of all the members. He was amongst the first to receive this prestigious award.

In 2010 he started a think tank called Partner Ready Software together with four other Dynamics NAV Experts. Partner Ready Software brings fresh ideas of designing applications in NAV and creates awareness for applying design patterns in creating repeatable solutions.

Mark is an associate in the Liberty Grove Software network, member of the NAVUG advisory board, co-founder of the Dutch Dynamics Community, vice-president of the Association of Dynamics Professionals and advisor for Dynamics HUB, a special project and performance tuning of the Dynamics NAV product on SQL Server. As a unique specialist, he has done breakthrough research in improving the performance of Dynamics NAV on SQL Server.

Mark maintains a blog on https://nav-skills.com/ . This blog contains a wide range of articles about both the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server product. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events. He also publishes articles on Pulse for LinkedIn.

Since 2006 Mark has been rewarded by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution to the online and offline communities. He received the award eleven times.

Mark is a father of four, married, and lives in a small town in The Netherlands.

He is an author of the books, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design, Microsoft Dynamics 2013 Application Design, and Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns, all for Packt.

David Studebaker has been a software consulting entrepreneur and manager most of his career while always maintaining a significant role as an application developer. David has been designing, developing, and teaching software since 1962. He has been a founding partner in five software service firms, most recently Studebaker Technology and Liberty Grove Software. Among his special achievements was the design and development of the very first production SPOOL system, a 1967 AT&T / IBM joint project.

David has been writing for publication since his college days. His published writings include a decade of technical reviews for the ACM’s Computing Reviews and a variety of articles and reference material on shop floor data collection. David is the author of four other Packt books on programming in Dynamics NAV C/AL, two of which were coauthored with Christopher Studebaker.

David has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a life member of the Association for Computing Machinery and was a founding officer of two ACM chapters.

Christopher Studebaker has worked as a NAV Developer / Implementer since 1999. He has experience designing, developing, implementing, and selling in the NAV and SQL Server environments, specializing in retail, manufacturing, job shop, and distribution implementations, mostly in high user-count, high data volume applications.

Chris has worked on many NAV implementations with integrations to external databases and third-party add-on products. Some special applications have included high volume order entry, pick-to-light systems, point of sale, procurement analysis, and web front ends.

Chris acts in a consulting and training role for customers and for peer NAV professionals. He provides training both in informal and classroom situations, often developing custom course material to support courses tailored to specific student group needs. Courses have included various NAV functional and development areas. Chris was a co-author of two previous books on programming in NAV C/AL.

Before becoming a certified NAV developer, Chris was a certified environmental consultant. His duties included regulatory reporting, data analysis, project management, and subcontractor oversight in addition to managing projects for hazardous material management and abatement.

Chris is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional, SQL database developer, as well as a Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Professional in NAV Development and NAV Installation and Configuration. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University and has done graduate work at Denmark Technical University.

Chris was a co-author of the Packt books, Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 and Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015.

Laura Nicolàs Lorente started working with Dynamics NAV back in 2005, first in the support department, mostly solving functional issues and doubts. She soon jumped to full deployment: consulting, analysis, development, implementation, migration, training, and support.

Right at the beginning, she realized that it was very important for a Dynamics NAV consultant to have a deep knowledge of business workflows. Technical skills are just not enough. So she started training herself in accounting, taxation, supply chain, logistics, and so on. She discovered a whole new world and found it very interesting.

After having enough consultancy experience, she got to manage the first project on her own. And then, she realized that even tech and business knowledge is not enough; she also needed management skills. So, after reading different management books and trying different approaches on the projects she worked on, she decided to deepen her knowledge by taking a master's degree in project management. She is now transitioning to agile management and agile development for better project success. She continues her training in the three areas (tech, business workflows, and management) whenever she gets a chance to. The Web is a huge source of inspiration for her: groups, forums, blogs, books, and so on. She also contributes by sharing her knowledge and experience with the Spanish Dynamics NAV community. Laura is also a coauthor of the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, which had really good comments coming from different Dynamics NAV experts.

Cristina Nicolàs Lorente has been working with Dynamics NAV since 2005. She started in the ERP world as a developer, but soon evolved into a complete Dynamics NAV professional, doing all the tasks involved in Dynamics NAV implementation: consultancy, analysis, development, implementation, training, and support to end users.

When Cristina started developing solutions for Dynamics NAV she had no idea about accounting or any kind of business workflows. They don't teach those topics for a technical university career. Soon, she discovered that it is important to know the set of tools used, but even more important to understand the meaning of whatever you develop. Without knowing accounting rules, practices, and legal requirements, it is impossible to develop useful accounting functionalities even if you are the best developer. Only when you fully understand a company's processes, will you be able to do the appropriate developments. Having that in mind, she has taken courses in accounting, warehouse management, and operations management. She is also willing to take courses on any other company-related topics.

She thinks that the best way to learn is to teach what you are learning to someone else. She has actually learned almost everything she knows about Dynamics NAV by responding to user questions on Internet forums, by writing a blog about Dynamics NAV, and of course by writing the book you have in your hands. When you have to write about something, you have to experiment, try, investigate, and read. It is definitely the best way to learn. Cristina is also a coauthor of the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, which had really good comments coming from different Dynamics NAV experts.

Vjekoslav Babić is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV expert, consultant, and architect with ten years experience in the IT industry and six years experience delivering project success on large-scale, high-risk, and international implementations of Microsoft Dynamics solutions. He has project experience in various industries, including telecommunications, insurance, pharmaceuticals, industrial gasses, chemicals, food and beverage, manufacturing, printing, distribution, and retail. He is a Project Management Institute certifi ed Project Management Professional, an accomplished Microsoft Certifi ed Trainer with a track record of successful trainings and presentations, a Microsoft Certifi ed Business Management Solutions Professional with several Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics CRM specializations, and holds a number of Microsoft technical certifi cations. Vjekoslav has published more than forty articles on business solutions, software development, database design, and internet technologies; he is the author of the NAV Insights column and an Editorial Advisory Board member with MSDynamicsWorld.com. An active blogger, he frequently writes about Microsoft Dynamics implementation methodologies, Sure Step, and Project Management topics on his blog NavigateIntoSuccess.com.

Based in Zagreb, Croatia, he is employed as a consultant at Microsoft.

Contact Vjekoslav Babić through his blog http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com

David Roys is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV product. He has worked in the computer industry since 1992 and currently works in New Zealand for Intergen Ltd., a leading Microsoft Gold Partner and Dynamics Presidents Club member.

Since getting his honors degree in Computing Science from Staffordshire University, England, he has worked with a variety of custom-written and packaged financial solutions in a variety of roles. His first programming job provided experience of financial systems using CICS, COBOL, and JCL on an IBM 3090 series mainframe. From being a very junior developer in a large organization, he went on to be a oneman IT department at a small food manufacturing company in a role that allowed him to learn and develop solutions for a Danish ERP package called 'Concorde XAL'. David moved into the world of consulting and ERP reselling in 1996 where he enjoyed working with some truly brilliant people at Columbus IT Partner and was able to work on international projects in South Africa, Hungary, Poland, and Ireland. With many years of experience in XAL and Axapta he moved to New Zealand in 2002 to work as a consultant for Ernst & Young in their IT Consulting practice delivering financial solutions in Navision Attain. He now works in his dream job as a Dynamics NAV consultant and developer for Intergen Ltd., a bunch of fun-loving, incredibly smart people. David firmly believes that ERP systems are boring and is committed to bringing some entertainment to this dull and listless world.