What is more rewarding than a well-deserved kudos? Learning from the incredible people who earn recognition for their hard work and ingenuity.

Which is why I’m very pleased to share that our fellow Avanade colleagues have been named 2019 Sitecore MVPs. Sitecore MVPs, or Most Valuable Professionals, are recognized by Sitecore as being among the best in the world at implementing the technology and evangelizing the platform with the wider community. Not only do Avanade’s Sitecore MVPs help enterprise clients solve business problems with Sitecore and other technologies, but they take extra time and care to share their knowledge beyond the task at hand.

Please join me in congratulating our tremendous MVPs, and take a few moments to get to know them a little better:

• Benjamin Adamski – United States


• Ben Morgan – United Kingdom


• Boris Brodsky – United States


• Chris Lowndes – Japan


• Craig Taylor – United States


• Derk Hudepol – Netherlands


• Jeroen De Groot – United States


• Katsuyuki Ogura – Japan


• Norihide Tokuyama – Japan


• Steven Ebrahimi – United States

Nearly half of these individuals have earned this prestigious title for several years running, which means they continue to build and expand their expertise as they set a new - ever higher - bar for Sitecore-based accomplishments. And we don’t take that lightly. In fact, as Sitecore’s first Global Platinum Implementation Partner, Avanade has a stellar history of supporting our people and giving them the tools needed to nurture their end-to-end customer experience (CX) skills and expertise. This continuously improving knowledge and talent base, in turn, helps our enterprise clients earn high-impact business results and industry award recognition. In other words, CX wins for our people lead to bigger CX wins for our clients.

Last year was a big one for our team of Sitecore experts: we embraced Sitecore 9 to take advantage of the latest and most effective features that help our enterprise customers achieve their business goals, guided our security-minded clients as they prepared for GDPR, led 10 sessions at Sitecore Symposium around topics that speak to the digital marketing community, and helped five global clients earn Sitecore Experience Awards for CX excellence. Those award wins demonstrate how our experts can get the most value from technology products like Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), Sitecore Experience Database (xDB) and Sitecore Federated Experience Manager to help global brands achieve key business outcomes like increased sales, conversions, and customer satisfaction.

What will 2019 hold for our Sitecore MVP community? To find out, stay in touch and be sure to come see us at Sitecore Experience London on April 3^rd.