Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around geek. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor, VMware vExpert and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017. Ruben (co)founded several independent industry bodies such as  Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC), Team Remote Graphics Experts (TeamRGE), WhatMatrix, and AppVirtGURU. Ruben also wrote and co-authored multiple disruptive research papers.  If you have feedback or questions for Ruben, send him an email at  ruben.spruijt@nutanix.com  or follow him on Twitter @rspruijt

Blair joined Login VSI in the summer of 2015 as Director of Products. He has been a marketing leader, avid architect and supporter of customer-focused technology solutions and technical marketing since the late 1990s. Residing in the mountains of Woodland Park, Colorado, he spends much of his time with family, playing music with his wife, doing yoga, hiking and geeking out with the latest tech. Follow him on Twitter: @SANSpyder, Instagram: @blairparkhill or LinkedIn: @Blair Parkhill.

Mark Plettenberg, Product Manager at Login VSI. Operating in the center between Sales, Product development, Marketing and last but not least: Research. Due to this research Mark is regularly invited to speak at leading industry events as E2EVC, VMworld, Citrix Synergy and share his vision on End User Computing/User Experience/Performance, in 2017 this led to the community recognition VMware vExpert and Citrix CTA, in 2018 Mark became a Microsoft MVP in the enterprise mobility category. Mark is co-author of the yearly “VDILIKEAPRO EUC State of the Union” the biggest community driven market research in EUC. If you have feedback or questions for Mark, send him an email at mark@loginvsi.com or follow him on Twitter@MarkPlettenberg.

Martin Zugec works for Citrix as a Senior Architect. His background is in field consulting, working on numerous projects all around the world. He is now based in Florida, working for technical marketing. He is active speaker, technologist, blogger and owner of projects like Citrix Optimizer and techzone.citrix.com. Get in touch with Martin and follow him on Twitter, via @MartinZugec, or LinkedIn.

Brian Martynowicz is Login VSI’s Support and Services Manager. At Login VSI, Brian is responsible for ensuring operational excellence in supporting and implementing our solutions within customer environments. Having worked in IT consulting for the last 15 years he loves to share field engineering expertise, and customer services management experience with others. In his free time, you will find him blogging or producing vlogs for LinkedIn. His written content is syndicated on Citrixology. He enjoys listening to hip hop music, traveling, drinking beer and learning about new technology.

Hilko Lantinga is an End-User Computing Architect in VMware Technical Marketing, with a focus on 3D, Horizon Windows Desktops & RDSH, Linux and Applications. Previously he was a Senior Consultant in VMware Professional Services, leading large-scale EUC deployments in EMEA and has 18 years of experience in end-user computing. Get in touch with Hilko and follow him on Twitter @HilkoLantinga.

Nick Rintalan is a Principal Architect & Sr. Director in the Citrix Professional Services organization based out of California. He has been with Citrix Consulting for the last 15 years, working on some of the largest Citrix deployments known to mankind. He has authored several well-known whitepapers such as “The Top 10 Items Found by Citrix Consulting on Assessments” and “Best Practices for XenDesktop and XenApp”. Nick has spoken at Synergy/iForum, Summit and BriForum 34 times over the years. Nick is a husband, father and enjoys golfing and hiking. Before joining Citrix, Nick worked for the IBM Software Group on the WebSphere development team. Nick received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Rob Girard is a self-proclaimed Geek and was one of Tintri’s early customers. Rob fell in love with the Tintri product, running several VMstores in production across multiple datacenters in dispersed geographies. Not wanting to wait until Beta releases to get a glimpse of the new products they are cooking up, Rob joined Tintri recently as a Technical Marketing Engineer. This is his first time on the “vendor side” and he has brought a lot of highly-valuable insight and experience from 16 years spent in the trenches as a customer. You can follow him on Twitter.

Kilian has 15 years of experience in the IT industry specializing in consulting, training and as a technology evangelist. For the last 7 years, Kilian has focused on digital workspace transformation projects and is a member of the Flexxible IT executive board. During his spare time he enjoys researching emerging technologies and sharing knowledge in different tech communities.

Federico joined Flexxible IT to lead the Support Services department. Within two years Federico started a new challenge to develop the pre-sales function and to create the company’s technical training program. With experience in datacenter environments, MSP and B2B, Federico remains strongly attached to the technical area focusing on achieving the best user experience for all clients. In the VDI world, user experience is key and it is our mission to ensure an excellent experience is a reality.

Kees Baggerman is a technical director leading a team of highly skilled architects for EUC, Databases and Global 2000 focused areas. Kees is a Citrix Certified Integration Architect, Microsoft Certified IT Professional, RES Certified Professional and RES Certified Trainer and has driven numerous Microsoft, Citrix, and RES infrastructures functional/technical designs, migrations, implementations engagements over the years. Active in the Citrix and virtualization community, Kees has been named Citrix CTP for over 3 years, RES RSVP for 8 years straight including being named MVP in 2011 and was first recognized as a VMware vExpert in 2013 and currently still holds the title. He is co-founder and member of the Board of the Dutch Citrix User Group and maintains a widely read blog. Get in touch and follow him on Twitter @KBaggerman.

Jed Ayres leads worldwide marketing for IGEL and is responsible for IGEL’s corporate marketing, social, branding, communications and global lead generation strategies. Ayres brings over 20 years of technology experience to IGEL and has a wide range of industry experience across workspace management, virtualization and mobility. Prior to joining IGEL, he was the SVP of Worldwide Marketing for AppSense, where he helped the company re-brand and achieve significant growth prior to being acquired by LANDESK. Ayres was also CMO at MCPc, a $300m Solutions Provider in Cleveland that achieved rapid and sustained growth and was acquired by Logicalis. Prior to MCPc, Jed spent six years as SVP of Partner Management and Marketing at national Solution Provider MTM Technologies, a large Citrix Platinum Partner that focuses on virtualization and managed services. Previously, Ayres held senior management positions at Megapath, Rhythms NetConnections and GE Capital IT Solutions. He has also held a number of advisory board positions, including Citrix Platinum Council, VMware Global Partner Advisory Board, Hewlett Packard Partner Marketing Advisory Board and the Cisco Marketing Council. Ayres holds a BS Business Administration from Sonoma State University and an MBA from San Francisco State University. An avid swimmer, biker and runner, Ayres successfully completed six full Ironman races and several ultramarathons. He resides in Marin, California with his family.

Bryan is the Global VDI Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco. After joining Cisco in 2013, he accepted the worldwide VDI TSA role in February of 2017 helping customers globally achieve their VDI goals. Bryan is passionate about desktop virtualization and ensuring customers can deliver an excellent end user experience without compromise. In his free time, Bryan enjoys time with his family, camping, and being outdoors. Twitter: @VDI_Geek.

Leibovici is a leading expert in the current area of virtualization, mobility, and End User Computing and maintains an award-winning and world recognized blog. Andre was previously Sr. Director of Technical Alliances. Andre worked at Nutanix as a Sr. Director for Alliances Engineering and Vertical Alliances, Sr. Staff Architect at VMware, and CTO Office at EMC. Andre’s expertise is backed by 25 years’ industry experience in IT and managing teams for large organizations.