AvePoint Extends Thought Leadership and Expertise to Customers with Three Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals in 2015

With the addition of one new MVP and the continued MVP status of two AvePoint employees, customers have access to extensive knowledge and best practices for deploying Microsoft technologies

AvePoint (NASDAQ: AVPT), the global leader in data security, governance, and resilience, today announced Technical Solutions Professional Fabrice Di Giulio was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Di Giulio joins AvePoint’s existing two Microsoft SharePoint MVPs on staff – AvePoint Public Sector Chief Technology Officer Dux Raymond Sy and AvePoint Client Services Strategic Consultant Paul Olenick. Each of the three MVPs use their expansive knowledge of Microsoft products to provide the highest level of guidance and expertise to AvePoint’s customer base, as well as help steer the company’s solutions toward the future of enterprise of collaboration.

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to supporting and enriching technical communities, the company recognizes exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others through its MVP awards. The roles and responsibilities of AvePoint’s Microsoft MVPs include:

• Fabrice Di Giulio, Dynamics CRM MVP: As a Technical Solutions Professional for AvePoint France, Di Giulio helps customers to find the best combination of tools and processes to fulfill their requirements. Combining his experience and knowledge about AvePoint and Microsoft solutions, Di Giulio is a frequent speaker at events organized by Microsoft and its ecosystem on governance and Office 365, including SharePoint.
• Paul Olenick, SharePoint MVP: As AvePoint Client Services Strategic Consultant, Olenick leads SharePoint and Enterprise Search engagements for large organizations in industries including legal, life sciences, financial, utilities, retail, and non-profit. First awarded MVP status in 2012, Olenick holds specializations in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint and SharePoint 2013 Search. He shares his experiences with the greater community by speaking at events, contributing to books, and blogging.
• Dux Raymond Sy, SharePoint MVP: As Chief Technology Officer of AvePoint Public Sector, Sy is responsible for leading the development and delivery of strategic customer solutions that drive positive business transformation and enable organizations to achieve their overall mission. An MVP since 2011 with more than 15 years of business and technology management experience, Sy successfully facilitates the implementation of various business transformation solutions for commercial, education, and public sector organizations. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he has authored various white papers, articles, and the book SharePoint for Project Management published by O'Reilly Media.

“We are proud to have three Microsoft MVPs on staff to help our customers enable enterprise collaboration using Microsoft technologies,” said Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, AvePoint. “Fabrice Di Giulio, Paul Olenick, and Dux Raymond Sy have all shown deep commitment and extreme passion for becoming leaders in their fields from both a technical and business perspective. We want to congratulate each of them on this fantastic honor and look forward to their continued contributions to our customers and the Microsoft technology community in 2015.”

For more information on AvePoint’s Microsoft MVPs, please visit the AvePoint Community for in-depth interviews with each recognized employee.

About AvePoint

Securing the Future. AvePoint is a global leader in data security, governance, and resilience, and over 21,000 customers worldwide rely on our solutions to modernize the digital workplace across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other collaboration environments. AvePoint’s global channel partner program includes over 3,500 managed service providers, value added resellers and systems integrators, with our solutions available in more than 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit https://www.avepoint.com.