Steve Jones

Data Platform MVP, Editor at sqlservercentral.com

Steve is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and has been working with SQL Server since version 4.2 on OS/2. After working as a DBA and developer for a variety of companies, Steve co-founded the community website SQLServerCentral.com in 2001.

Since 2004, Steve has been the full-time editor of the site, ensuring it continues to be a great resource for SQL Server professionals. Over the last decade, Steve has written hundreds of articles about SQL Server for SQLServerCentral.com, SQL Server Standard magazine, SQL Server Magazine, and Database Journal.

@way0utwest

Grant Fritchey

Data Platform MVP, Advocate at Redgate, scarydba.com

Grant is a Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder with over 30 years' experience in IT, including time spent in support and development.

Grant has experience with both on-premises, and cloud-based data management, and DevOps. He has experience with multiple development languages and platforms. Grant has written books for Apress and Simple-Talk. Grant presents at conferences and user groups, large and small, all over the world. Grant volunteers for PASS and is on the Board of Directors as the Immediate Past President. He joined Redgate Software as a product advocate January 2011.

@GFritchey

Alex Yates

Microsoft MVP and Founder of DLM Consultants

Alex Yates has been helping organisations to apply DevOps principles to relational database development and deployment since 2010. He’s most proud of helping Skyscanner develop the ability to deploy 95 times a day. Originally for Redgate, later for DLM Consultants, Alex has worked with clients on every continent except Antarctica – so he’s keen to meet anyone who researches penguins.

A keen community member, he co-organises Data Relay, is the founder of www.SpeakingMentors.com and has been recognised as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 2017.

@_AlexYates_

Annette Allen

Microsoft MVP and DBA at Well Data

Annette is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and has been a SQL Developer since 2000, starting work with a London City based Law firm before moving to Cornwall and working as a part Developer part Managerial role. She then worked as Developer for a health care company and in 2015 joined the University of Exeter where she was the SQL Server DBA until April 2018. Now Annette is working on a project and does both SQL Database code and DBA work on an Azure environment.

Neil Hambly

Founder, CEO, and Principal Consultant at DataMovements Limited

Neil Hambly is a SQL Server Consultant, Founder & MCT @ Beacon Intelligence (aka Datamovements), a Gold Microsoft Data & Analytics Consulting company.

Neil has 20+ years in SQL Server roles and is also an MCT. He is a regular presenter (400+ events) at user groups, PASS events, including PASS Summit, SQLSaturday, and many UK events (SQLBits, Data Relay), and honoured to be long term Friend of RedGate (FoRG).

Richard Macaskill

Product Manager at Redgate

Richard is a Product Manager at Redgate, having previously spent almost 20 years in IT management, database administration and development for Insurance and Financial Services firms in London, back-filling other roles along the way. He spends much of his time boring anyone in earshot about the DevOps and automation implications of financial compliance and audit.

@DataMacas

Renu Martingale

Marketing Manager at Redgate

Renu joined Redgate just over a year ago, to lead our positioning and messaging to senior decision makers in enterprise organisations. With over 15 years' experience, Renu has spent much of her career specialising in technology marketing, and takes particular pride in researching and understanding customer groups, in order to successfully articulate how a deeply technical solution can offer them tangible business benefits.

Chris Kerswell

Lead Pre-Sales Engineer at Redgate

Chris joined Redgate in 2018, before which he was a Solution Architect and a Pre-sales Consultant at other software companies. Chris brings experience of working with IT professionals from a wide variety of enterprises of all sizes and verticals, where he focused on helping solve their compliance and productivity challenges.

David Atkinson

Head of Product Strategy at Redgate

David has been at Redgate for over 14 years and has covered a variety of roles before discovering his vocation in Product Management. As well as working on headline Redgate products such as SQL Compare, SQL Prompt, and SQL Source Control, including their Oracle counterparts, David's mission has been to evolve the offering to build out a complete Database DevOps solution, unlocking benefits that have until very recently been exclusive to application development.

@dtabase

Chris Godfree

Technical Lead (Data) Investments Technology Solutions at Aberdeen Standard Investments

Since starting his career as a Mainframe Developer in 2001, Chris has had a varied technical career in the banking and finance industry. He first used Redgate SQL Server tools in 2010.

Chris' current role focuses on Database Lifecycle Management with SQL Server databases, especially the automated deployment of changes using Redgate tools integrated into Azure DevOps pipelines.

Graeme Wilson

DBA at Aberdeen Standard Investments

Graeme has worked in IT since completing a post graduate diploma at Stirling University in 1987. He also has a 2:2 in Agricultural Botany from Glasgow University.

Graeme was employed by various Surrey based consultancies using Oracle, Ingres and Sybase in house and on customer sites. Since 1996 he has worked for what is now Aberdeen Standard Investments in Edinburgh as a DBA, surviving demutualisation and merger. An ex committee member of the Oracle User Group Graeme has been using SQL Server for the last 10 years.

Mike Vessey

Performance Tuning DBA at Linney

Mike’s current role is with Linney in Nottingham, primarily a performance tuning DBA, but as the only DBA in a company with almost 1500 people he also acts as a bridge between their software teams, with over 100 developers, and their Networks operations team.

He is currently championing the DevOps process after realising in his first week that things needed a big shake up.

Nicholas Taylor

Computer Programmer, Linney

Nicholas' fascination with computers started with a bang from the day his parents bought a Commodore 64 in 1987. Before then he had zero experience with any technology whatsoever. His new hobby quickly blossomed into a career, and these days he loves to solve real life problems for people developing software and databases using C# and SQL Server, and this is precisely what he does every day at the incredible company called Linney in Mansfield.