Authors

Matthias is a former 10-year Microsoft MVP, co-founder, and CEO at Rencore. His mission is to help enterprises stay in control of their Microsoft collaboration technology. Matthias and his team achieve this by providing insights, advice, and actionable ways to manage platform growth. Matthias is speaking at many conferences and community events all over the world and is one of the organizers of the European Collaboration Summit.

Jasper Oosterveld is a Microsoft MVP and Data Security Consultant at Rubicon Cloud Advisor within the Netherlands. On a daily basis, he works with customers to implement the Modern Workplace with Microsoft 365. Jasper focuses on collaboration, governance and compliance. Jasper loves to share his expertise and love for Microsoft products with everyone who is willing to listen.

Matthias is the VP of Marketing at Rencore. He is passionate about helping make Microsoft 365 admins' lives easier by evangelizing about Rencore's mission, vision, and products.

Rencore is a B2B software company providing award-winning solutions that help organizations maintain control over Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI Agents, and the Power Platform. Our customers rely on our tools to simplify, automate, and accelerate their daily challenges in control, risk, cost, and compliance.

Torsten is CAA at Rencore. During his time as a SharePoint consultant, he always tried to improve and automate the SharePoint development process, first by creating the SharePoint Software Factory (SPSF), and later by creating the SharePoint code analysis tools, today known as SPCAF. After an intermezzo for 3 years at Microsoft, he is now part of the RENCORE team and is responsible for the further technical development of all our tools.

Liam began his career as a trainer of all things computer-related. He quickly realized that programming, breaking, and hacking were much more fun. Liam spent the next few years working within core infrastructure and security services. He is the founder and owner of SharePlicity, a consulting company that focuses on Microsoft 365 and Azure technology. His role within SharePlicity is to help organizations implement Microsoft 365 and Azure technology to enhance internal and external collaboration, document and records management, automate business processes, and implement security controls and protection. Liam is an Microsoft MVP Alumni and MCT.

Ragnar is Business Developement Manager Microsoft at German consulting firm and Rencore Partner HanseVision. His community activities have earned him his Microsoft MVP status seven times, with his first award coming in January 2017. Ragnar’s contributions to the MVP community focus on the M365 Apps and Services space. He is the Co-Host of the bi-weekly Microsoft 365 News Show “Alex & Ragnar”, and also curates content and blogs for IT News Portal Tekki Gurus. He is the founding member of Working Out Loud Community and Responsive Organization Movement in Germany. He has published several books and articles about Social Intranets, Digital Business and Brand Ambassadors.

Sara has over 25 years’ experience, has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for over 15 years and is also a MCT Regional Lead and Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Microsoft 365 Apps and Services. As a trainer her professional aim is to help make technology more accessible by increasing knowledge and decreasing fear. In her own words “I love helping others advance their own skills and use of technology, whilst challenging myself to advance my own skills and expertise.” Sara provides training across Microsoft 365 from beginner to admin and everyone in between and specializes in productivity, security & compliance within Microsoft 365. In 2021 Sara co-founded a group of other like-minded MVPs to form the Viva Explorers, who actively promote, evangelize and champion a modern employee and workplace experience under-pinned by tools such as Microsoft Viva.

Sven is a Microsoft 365 Governance Consultant at Rencore. He started his career in the Microsoft 365 world around the same time Microsoft Teams was launched, a product that still accompanies and inspires him today. Over the past few years, he has advised various organizations on their journey to the Microsoft 365 cloud and on transforming their way of working. In his role at Rencore, Sven now helps customers and partners ask the right questions about their governance challenges and supports them in gaining maximum value from Rencore Governance. He has co-authored several ebooks and a book about how to work best with Microsoft 365 apps & services.

Tiina is a tech executive who thrives in the space between "what is" and "what could be." For 20+ years, she led organisations through critical transformations - from scaling enterprise programs in telecommunications to building award-winning digital teams, and currently making a difference for Rencore Governance as VP of Product & Engineering. Tiina embraces taking complex technical or organisational challenges and translating them into executable strategies. Her approach: Bridge the gap between technical reality and business vision. The best solutions come from understanding both the code and the customer, both the sprint and the strategy.

James is the Chief Revenue Officer at Rencore, where he leads revenue and go-to-market for the platform that keeps Microsoft 365, Copilot, and the agents enterprises build under control. He works with large organisations that need to know what is running across their Microsoft cloud estate, who built it, and what it costs, and helps their leaders weigh up Copilot and agent rollouts against the risk, cost, and compliance questions their boards are asking. James is based in London.

As a Microsoft 365 consultant, Rene Vlieger spends his days immersed in the world of cloud technology, assisting organizations on their transformative journey. His passion lies in enhancing productivity, fortifying governance, ensuring compliance, bolstering security measures, and fostering seamless adoption of new technologies. Rene believes in the power of sharing knowledge, which is why he invests heavily in training sessions, workshops, and yes, even penning (or typing!) joint blogs which he finds incredibly fulfilling. Rene is hosting both a \n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@renevlieger" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a> and a \n<a href="https://ms365news.com" target="_blank">professional blog</a>.

Christian is Director of Partner Management for the North American market at Rencore. He is both a Microsoft Regional Director and long-standing Office Servers and Services Microsoft MVP. Christian is also Founder and CEO of CollabTalk LLC, an independent analyst and technical marketing services company based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Maximilian Götz is a Modern Work Strategist and Solution Engineer at Rencore, helping organizations govern their Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and AI environments at scale. With over seven years in IT consulting and cloud strategy, Maximilian specializes in turning complex governance challenges into automated, practical solutions. His current focus is AI agent sprawl, Power Platform lifecycle management, and compliance enforcement across enterprise Microsoft environments. A regular voice in the Microsoft governance community, he works with IT leaders, compliance teams, and MSPs to close the gaps that native tooling leaves behind.

Chrissi is the Marketing Operations Manager at Rencore. She loves to plan and be at events and is responsible for all things Social Media.

Django Lohn is a Business Applications Microsoft MVP and Power Platform Consultant based in the Netherlands. On a daily basis, he works with customers to implement Business Apps using the Power Platform tools Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents and Dataverse. Django focuses on architecture, governance, Application Lifecycle Management, development and implementation. Sharing his experiences with the Microsoft Community and anyone else interested, is one of his extracurricular activities using his blog: https://knowhere365.space/

Karoliina is Head of Modern Work at Meltlake and a Microsoft MVP, whose passion is to empower every employee with smart use of digital technology. Karoliina's specialty is inspiring the c-level and co-creating sustainable change. In the end, it's all about excellent employee experience. Karoliina loves to share knowledge and learn from others, and she speaks actively at conferences. Community rocks!

Agnieszka is the Head of People & Culture at Rencore. Her main goal is to create a thriving and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. She is passionate about nurturing a culture that promotes well-being, growth, development and engagement.

Antonio is an enterprise architect with over 20 years of experience in application architecture, information security, cybersecurity practices and systems, software development and leadership. Antonio is a Managing Director and Senior Enterprise Architect with Protiviti. Based in Canada, he is an 11-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), from 2012 to 2023. His work specializes in Microsoft 365, collaboraiton and the modern workplace, Office Apps and Services, security and compliance. Antonio’s work focuses on helping organizations assess and implement security, compliance and data governance solutions within Microsoft Cloud environments. His experience includes working within the Microsoft Cloud technologies, including Microsoft 365, Defender, Purview and Syntex. A frequent conference speaker and writer, his experience with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint extends over the last 15 years. In his spare time, Antonio likes to oil paint, make wine, make maple syrup, read and spend time with his family.

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