Nik Kalyani (MVP) is the co-founder and CEO of DotNetNuke Corporation. Nik is a successful entrepreneur committed to the business of technology. His previous venture, Speerio, was built upon the valuable experience he gained developing and growing his prior two software companies. Nik is proficient in many areas of software development and strives to create the highest quality software. Nik is a marketing leader, user experience specialist and evangelist. He blogs at TechBubble.

Joe Brinkman (MVP), is co-founder and Vice President, Core Technology of DotNetNuke Corporation. With more than 25 years of experience in software development and network administration and a Computer Science degree from the United States Naval Academy, Joe brings a broad range of experience and expertise in a variety of software and hardware architectures. He has been actively involved with the DotNetNuke project since the early days of 2003, was a founding Core Team and Board of Directors member and co-authored two bestselling WROX books on DotNetNuke.  Joe has been a Microsoft MVP for ASP.Net for the last two years and during his off time likes making sawdust in his woodshop, chasing a little white ball around a golf course or spending a quiet afternoon in a movie theater with his wife Gloria.

Scott Willhite (MVP) is the co-founder and Vice President, Professional Services of DotNetNuke Corporation. Scotts technology pedigree is distinguished, including Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and MBA in Information Systems Management degrees from Baylor University. Scott has worked as Senior Manager and Technical Architect for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), acting CTO and VP of Technology for 10x Labs and Program Director for Safeco's Office of the CIO.  He's architected, developed and managed systems built on technologies ranging from COBOL to Java and .NET, solving all kinds of real world business problems in industries from banking to healthcare.

Cathal Connolly (MCSD, MVP) works as a Senior Developer and Consultant with EG Information Consulting (http://www.eg-consulting.com/), based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Cathal has previously working for IT companies in the UK, US and Austria, developing both Web and Client/Server applications using Microsoft technologies. His current focus is the development of secure Banking applications and bespoke Smart Client .net products. Cathal is an MCSD and holds a BSc in Computer Science.

Jon Henning (MCSD, MVP) is senior consultant with Solution Partners Inc., http://www.solpart.com/, a Chicago based consulting company specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is an MCSD who has been working with Visual Studio .NET since the PDC release. While he has written several articles dealing with all aspects of programming, his current love has been found in the development rich client-side functionality. Most notably is the Solution Partners ASP.NET Hierarchical Menu which is the menu that is used within DotNetNuke. While the menu itself is not specific to DotNetNuke, he has also made available a Menu Module PA, along with some custom skins showing off its many features (http://www.solpart.com/Default.aspx?tabid=72 ). View WebLog

Vicenç Masanas (MVP) is the principal at Disgrafic (www.disgrafic.com), a software consultancy company based in Banyoles - Spain, specializing in Web development and design on the DotNetNuke platform. Vicenç has been a member of the DotNetNuke Core Team since 2003 where he serves as a core developer. He is also responsible for the Localization and Globalization efforts for the DotNetNuke platform. Vicenç is also the publisher of the dnnJungle Web site (dnnjungle.vmasanas.net) where he provides community support for DotNetNuke, free modules, developer tools, and highly-acclaimed templates for DotNetNuke development since DotNetNuke version 2.x.

Charles Nurse (MVP) has been developing software for more than 25 years.  He is owner of his own consulting business, Keydance Computer Services and has been a DotNetNuke developer for over 4 years, the last 2.5 years as a Trustee.  He was lead developer on the .NET 2 version of DotNetNuke (DNN 4.0).  His primary role on the DotNetNuke Project is as a Core Developer.

A native of Bristol, England, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Oxford University.  In 1978, he moved to Canada to continue his studies at the University of Bristish Columbia where he obtained a Ph.D. (also in Chemistry), and where he met his wife Eileen. More recently (2003) he completed a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Object Technology Programming at Simon Fraser University.

He is in the process of developing his own DotNetNuke Developer Resource site (www.dnndevzone.com) where he will be providing articles for developing for and with DotNetNuke.

He lives in Langley, BC, Canada with his wife and two children, both students at Simon Fraser University.

Christopher Paterra (MVP) is a member of the Bugs & Enhancements Specialist, Core Developer & Lead Release Manager core team roles. Chris has had involvement in many areas of DotNetNuke and his more well known enhnancement includes the Enhanced Survey to use Personalization for vote tracking and added ability to keep results private. Chris has written several procedure documents for the Core Team and helped organize and manage the skinning contest. Former NT MCSE and now studying MSCAD, Chris has VB.NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, C, C , VB 6 experience.

Chris has implemented DNN with custom modules for use in a school as their lunch inventory/cash control system using swipe card technology. He has also implemented DotNetNuke it in a Call Center with custom modules as it's intranet. Another exciting project was one of the first releases of the power of DotNetNuke skinning with the launch of a website promoting Christina Aquillera.

Bryan Andrews has been developing web applications since Netscape 1.0 and has worked in many different capacities in the past 10 years from infrastructure architecture and management, to the development of collaborative and knowledge management tools. He is one of the Founders and CTO of an Atlanta headquartered marketing agency (Trend Influence) and an associated development company (ApplicationTheory) that produces marketing and communication tools. DotNetNuke has become the platform of choice for many of their clients and as such they have developed a complete suite of tools and agency specific modules to support these clients.

Erik van Ballegoij (MVP) of Apollo Software (www.apollo-software.nl) holds a masters degree in economics, and started developing web applications in 1997. In early 2005, he started developing a few of the first multilingual solutions for DotNetNuke. Erik's responsibilities within the core team are Project Lead for the "Announcement" module, and core team sponsor for the "Events" and "Chat" modules. Furthermore, Erik is also board member of the Dutch DotNetNuke Usergroup.

Philip Beadle(MCAD, MVP) is a founding member of the DotNetNuke Core Team, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer and is experienced in the development and commercial application of the DotNetNuke Framework based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. He has successfully developed and implemented sites for clients in Australia and overseas and was recently awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in ASP/ASP.NET.

Philip is a regular contributor to online technical lists and communities and is a sought after speaker at technology conferences and .NET User Groups such as the Victoria .Net Users Group ( http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/index.aspx?link_id=84 ). He recently completed the MSDN update tour for Australia and New Zealand and presented at Microsoft's Tech Ed 2005.

Philip is employed as a Senior Consultant by Readify (http://readify.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=1 ) who are a group of elite consultants, specialising in technical readiness, who help organizations evolve with emerging Microsoft technologies keeping them a step ahead of their competitors.

Stefan Cullmann is the head of the IT department of a technical association, based in Berlin, Germany. He is a graduate engineer for medical physics with a fable for software development. Stefan wrote his first lines of Basic code on a Sinclair ZX81 in 1981.

DotNetNuke has turned into his favorite tool for running public websites over the last years. As requirements forced him to enhance the platform on his own, Stefan took the chance to join a project team. Today Stefan is engaged within the IFrame, Xml and UserDefinedTable projects.

Stefan loves to use XML and XSL everywhere where possible. He prefers code generation instead of rewriting and he often goes hunting bugs with passion.

Anthony Glenwright (MCSD) is Product Development Manager at Inventua, an Australian company specializing in Microsoft Technologies and web application development. Within the DotNetNuke Core Team, Anthony is Project Lead for the "Documents" module. Anthony has over 12 years experience developing software, primarly "Smart Client" software for the Windows platform and web-based software running in the Windows server environment.

Salar Golestanian specializes in Skinning and UI, working solely in the DotNetNuke environment. He is currently targeting clients wanting content management solutions, and has years of creative design experience. Salar is working on a number of projects based on the DotNetNuke platform. The links to various projects and showcases is available on salaro.com.

Salar’s background is in Internet technology using Microsoft tools. He has a Bachelor of Science and MPhil in Physics. He lives with ّhis fiancé and daughter near London UK.

Chris Hammond is the Product Manager for Internet Solutions with Engage Software (www.engagesoftware.net) in St. Louis, Missouri. Chris has started a DNN User group in St. Louis located at www.dnnug.com and takes time to speak at user groups around the Midwest to evangelize and teach DotNetNuke. In his free time Chris participates in various activities with the Sports Car Club of America, including autocross and club racing. He manages multiple community portals relating to those efforts, www.solo2.org and www.sccaforums.com. You can read more about Chris on his blog at chrishammond.com.

Sebastian Leupold (MVP) is CEO of gamma concept, a solutions company specialized in developing database driven software for PC and web. He studied Economics and Business Engineering at Karlsruhe University and has 17 years professional experience in software applications. Sebastian initiated and took part in several research projects regarding IT and web implementaition for small and medium sized enterprises. Since 2004 he has been creating web portals using DotNetNuke with individually designed skins; he is team lead for module User Defined Table and develops commercial modules as well. Besides other valuable information, his web site DeutschNetNuke provides more than 450 language packs for DotNetNuke framework and modules.

Scott McCulloch (MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA) works as an Application Developer for the Computer Science Corporation, Australia. At 26 years of age, Scott holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Computer Science, as well as the three major Microsoft Certifications (MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE).

Scott has been part of the DotNetNuke community since the project began (late December, 2002) and runs a popular site dedicated to producing modules, skins & skin objects (http://www.ventrian.com). Today, his role within the DotNetNuke team is contributing as an Architect and Core Developer. He currently resides in Wollongong, Australia with his Fiancé, Lenise.

Shawn Mehaffie holds a MCAD (ASP.Net) certification and is working on his MCSD certification. Shawn has been 14 years programming experience in VB.Net, ASP.Net and C# and has worked with .Net since it was released. He was on a team that wrote a Payment Engine web service as part of the Microsoft .Net Blaze program. As a side job, Shawn owns his own company PC Resources, LLC (http://www.pcresourcesllc.com/). Shawn has been a part of the DotNetNuke community since v1.0 and currently uses DotNetNuke to create web sites for his customers (non-profit organizations, churches and small businesses). Shawn is the QA Team Leader, a position he has filled since becoming a core team member. Shawn is excited about being on the DoteNetNuke core team and the positive contributions his team can have on future releases of DotNetNuke. Shawn lives in Blue Springs, Missouri with his lovely wife Josephine and their two sons (Austin & Tyler).  Shawn supports a great mentoring ministry called “Saving Our Boys” by donating his time to maintain their web site (http://www.savingourboys.net).

Tam Tran Minh holds an architect degree from HCMC-Vietnam University of Architecture. He is currently Chairman and CIO of TTT Corporation in Vietnam (http://www.tttcompany.com/). Since 2003, DotNetNuke is the main content management portal for his company, Tam has developed and contributed several DotNetNuke modules to the community.

Tam is currently developing a management and collaboration system for TTT with Visual Basic, Exchange/Outlook and now VB.NET. He is author of several articles in PC-World Vietnam and has published a book titled 'Architectural Space - Virtual and Reality' (winner of the National Architectural Awards 2002 in Vietnam) based on projects of TTT using computer graphic technologies. Tam speaks both Vietnamese and English.

Andrew Nurse is a 3rd-year Computing Science student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and has done DotNetNuke development work for Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems, Inc. He has been programing since a young age thanks to the support and teaching of his father, Charles (who is also a Core Team Member). Andrew has experience in VB.Net, C#, Java, and Microsoft SQL Server and has developed custom DNN modules for Data Reporting, Engineering Project Management, Software Test Case Management, and more.

Andrew will be doing an internship at Microsoft in the summer of 2007.

Leigh Pointer (MVP) is an accomplished professional with 16 years experience in the public and private IT sector. Leigh is highly experienced in user interaction design. He started out as a software engineer doing software analysis and design, problem solving. He has built custom modules for DotNetNuke and tries to prompt the DotNetNuke portal system as much as possible. Leigh is an English man who has resided in Netherlands since 1999 with his partner and dog “noo noo”. (http://www.subzero-solutions.net/)

Michael Washington (MVP) is a Website developer and an ASP.NET, C#, and Visual Basic programmer. He has extensive knowledge in process improvement, billing systems, and credit card transaction processing. He has been involved with DotNetNuke for nearly 3 years and has worked on the DotNetNuke Data Access Layer enhancements. He is the author of numerous DotNetNuke modules and tutorials including "Creating a DotNetNuke Module For absolute beginners!". He is one of the founding members of the Southern California DotNetNuke Users group (http://socaldug.org/). He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

Lorraine Young is a founding member of the DotNetNuke Core Team who provides assistance in the user experience and documentation areas of the DotNetNuke Project.

Lorraine has extensive experience in developing user documentation, specifications, training and support for DotNetNuke applications. She created and maintains the DotNetNuke Online Help resource which is available online or as an e-Book exclusively from the DotNetNuke MarketPlace.

Lorraine holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional Writing and Literature and a Post Graduate degree in Orientation and Mobility for vision impaired adults and children. Lorraine works as a freelance consultant and maintains a website at www.dnnangel.com.