Mathew George is a senior developer with the file access and distribution team. He is a co-designer of the SMB2 protocol stack and currently involved in the development of the SMB2 client filesystem stack for the Windows platform.

Sean Mortazavi is an architect at Microsoft in the HPC group focusing on Developer Tools. Prior to WHPC he was in the Visual Studio and MSR divisions where he worked on Microsoft's next generation of compilers, JITs and Static Analysis tools. Before Microsoft he was at Sun Microsystems where he led the compiler code generation & optimization groups.

Taylor Brown is a Test Lead in the Windows Core Operating System (COSD) division focused on ensuring customers and partners are enabled to fully utilize Windows virtualization technology. He has been focused on Virtualization since 2004 working on Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Virtual Server R2 and Hyper-V. Prior to joining the Core OS division Taylor worked on the Microsoft Smart Watch Project also known as MSN Direct as well as Windows power management and Windows 1394/fire wire teams.

My name is Nihar Shah, and I work on the Hyper-V team at Microsoft. I have been working in the virtualization space for 8 years, dating back to my pre-Microsoft days at Connectix. Among other things, I am the lead in charge of defining and implementing the Hyper-V WMI object model.

CJ is a North Carolina native from the small town of New Bern. For those who've never heard of New Bern (the vast majority I'm sure), it was the colonial capiatol of NC as well as the birth place of Pepsi Cola. CJ attended NC State University where he recieved his BS and MS in Computer Science before transplanting himself to western Washington to work for Microsoft just over 7 years ago. CJ has worked on a number of projects at Microsoft including threedegrees, Windows Live (then MSN) Messenger, and (most recently) Windows Home Server.

Fabian hails from Germany. He lives and studies in the town of Cottbus located near Berlin. Fabian attended the Brandenburg University of Technology where he received his BS degree in Information and Media Technology. He is currently a graduate student in his last year before writing his master thesis. He has worked for Microsoft Germany for about 2 years as a Senior Student Partner. In short, he leads regional group of “student evangelists” that advocate the use of Microsoft development tools in academia. Fabian most recently began an internship as a program manager on the Windows Home Server team in Redmond, Washington.