Charbel Nemnom is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Hyper-V and a team leader, with Infrastructure expertise and a vast knowledge of a variety of Microsoft and VMware technologies. He has over thirteen years of professional experience in the Information Technology field and guiding technical teams to optimize performance of mission-critical enterprise systems. He has worked as a system and network engineer, as a senior consultant, and as an IT manager and has a history of successful enterprise projects in the IT, banks, education, and publishing sectors. He works as a Virtualization Consultant Architect in the MENA region.

Charbel also runs his blog where he blogs frequently about Software Defined Data Center and Cloud Computing.

Charbel is a Microsoft, Cisco and VMware Certified and holds the following credentials:

VCA-DCV, MCP, MCSA, MCTS, MCITP, MCS, MCSE, CCNP, ITIL® and PMP®. You can also follow him on Twitter @CharbelNemnom

Patrick Lownds is a Master level Solution Architect working for TS Consulting EMEA, in the Data Center Consulting practice, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and is based in London, UK.

Patrick is also a current Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM) and has worked in the IT industry since 1988 on various technologies, including Windows Server Hyper-V, System Center, Windows Azure Pack and Microsoft Azure.

In his current role he works mainly with the most recent versions of Windows Server and System Center and has participated in the Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016 and Microsoft Azure Stack Early Adoption Program.

Patrick has previously contributed to a number of books entitled Mastering Hyper-V Deployment, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide. All of which were published by Wiley and Sybex.

He is a community blogger for HPE and tweets in his spare time, and can be found on Twitter as @patricklownds.

When not consulting, speaking or writing, he can be most often found on a rugby pitch teaching contact rugby to children of various ages.