FastTrack Recognised Solution Architects—Power Platform

Rishi Sapra

Group Manager, Avanade, United Kingdom

Rishi brings a strong mix of commercial and technical skills combined with a solid academic background. He graduated with a first-class degree from the London School of Economics and prior to pursuing a career in Microsoft BI at Altius/Avanade, Rishi was a chartered accountant with more than 12 years of experience in Big 4 consulting and financial services. He is a Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform MVP—running the Power Platform Finance and Learn Data Insights communities—and has a keen interest in Power BI governance/self-serve architecture. Rishi brings together his financial and analytical prowess to design BI solutions that drive impactful decision-making.

Robin Abramson

Lead Data Architect, Competency Lead, 3Cloud Solutions, United States

Robin is a data enthusiast with more than 21 years of experience and a current focus on Power BI. As a lead data architect at 3Cloud, she crafts data reporting solutions using Azure to create app-like reports for her clients, as well as creating engaging reporting solutions so users can explore their data for insights. Robin develops techniques to encourage in-depth analysis and guides clients through best practices to adopt the same. Outside of work, Robin enjoys mentoring others and evangelizing Power BI. She has a strong commitment to the user community and has served on the PASS Board of Directors.

Shabbir H Mala

Consulting Director, 3Cloud Solutions, United States

With more than 23 years of experience in complex development projects, analytics systems, and processes, Shabbir designs and architects data and advanced analytics solutions using the Microsoft technology stack for BI. He stands out for his technical depth and ability to articulate the rationale behind key architectural decisions and their impact on performance optimisation. Shabbir enjoys building solutions with predictive modelling and data mining using Azure Machine Learning. His expertise is in the market research, logistics, retail, banking, and pharmaceutical industries.

Steve Rein

Managing Consultant, adesso SE, Germany

Teo Lachev

Consultant, Prologika LLC, United States

Teo designs and implements innovative solutions that bring tremendous value to his clients and help them make sense of data. His expertise in strategy formulation for organisational and self-service data analytics, data warehousing, BI governance, and performance optimisations empower his clients to better understand, improve, and transform their business processes. The 15-time Microsoft MVP has written several books on data analytics and has led the Atlanta Microsoft BI group since founding it in 2010.

Tom Rogan

Manager, Power Platform Solution Architect, Avanade, United Kingdom

Ville Gullstrand

Blackbelt Ninja, Exobe, Sweden

William Rathbone

Principal Consultant, Simpson Associates, United Kingdom

Will started his IT career as a systems developer within investment banking. Having gained a firm foundation in the implementation and maintenance of financial and risk management applications, he became interested in strategic approaches to reporting and the development of decision support systems. After completing his MBA, Will joined IBM and quickly began leading analytics initiatives, before moving into a principal consultant role at Simpson Associates. Will is a Microsoft evangelist with a particular passion for all things OLAP—from multidimensional models to tabular and Power BI—but his primary focus and motivation is the delivery of cutting-edge analytics solutions that solve real business problems.