Andrew J. Brust
Chief, New Technology
twentysix New York
andrew.brust@26ny.com

Andrew J. Brust is Chief, New Technology at twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in Business Intelligence and custom application development. Andrew is Microsoft's Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine, a regular speaker and Conference Chair at VSLive and a featured speaker at other conferences throughout the U.S. and internationally. Andrew has over 20 years of experience programming and consulting in the Financial, Public, Small Business, and Not-For-Profit sectors.

Stephen Forte
Co-Founder & CTO
Corzen
stephenforte@hotmail.com

Stephen Forte has many years of experience as a developer, entrepreneur, consultant and executive. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, CTTM, and Advisor DevCon and others conferences around the world. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region. He has written several books on database development and is technical editor of VB/SQL Advisor Magazine, where he also writes a monthly column. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group.

Bill Zack
President
William H. Zack & Associates
wzack@compuserve.com

Bill Zack is a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, Systems Integrator and the author of several computer books and white papers, including the book "Windows 2000 and Mainframe Integration", and the "Host Integration Server 2000 Product Overview" white paper featured on Microsoft's web site.

He is Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, Founder and current Chairman of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past Chairman of two other computer user groups.

Bill is a member of the International .NET Association (INETA) User Group Relations Strategic Committee as well as a member of the Board of Directors of culminis, the IT Professionals Association.

He has been a .NET Beta tester since the early days of Beta 2.