Contributors

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Adam Piercy, Microsoft Dynamics Sales Capabilities Lead, Hitachi Solutions

Adam is the Sales Capability Lead at Hitachi Solutions within our Dynamics practice.  Additionally, Adam is a Microsoft Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect. He is a digital transformation leader for our customers with a passion for great user experience and positive adoption. 

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Brad Koontz, Hitachi Solutions VP of Industry Solution Sales


As Vice President of Industry Solution Sales, I have direct experience defining and delivering an innovative roadmap that creates and expands competitive advantage by aligning products, engineers, and executives under a single vision.

For 15+ years I  led sales and product teams by establishing a culture of innovation that defines corporate vision, effectively allocates efforts, and empowers the organization. In addition to making sure  customers feel understood, I promote the technical sales function by delivering actionable information to sales and marketing teams to ensure the expansion of our market strategy and the implementation of all unique product features.

My skills to innovate drives business growth because I leverage emerging technology, generate sales, and build high-performing teams.

bkoontz@hitachisolutions.com

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Dave Horstein, Hitachi Solutions Advisory Client Partner

Dave Horstein is an Advisory Client Partner with Hitachi Solution, Ltd., where he helps organizations gain clarity, alignment, and business value. Dave engages with his clients' leadership teams to visualize their future state, build consensus, and drive excellence.

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Joel Lindstrom, Senior Director — Low Code, Hitachi Solutions Tech Hub of Rapid Solution Development

Joel Lindstrom, the Senior Director for Power Platform and Automation at Hitachi Solutions North America, is a leader with over two decades of experience in the tech industry. Steering a team of dedicated Power Platform professionals, Joel has been instrumental in helping harness the power of low-code apps and automation. His profound impact and consistent excellence in the field have earned him recognition as a 14-time Microsoft MVP and a 3-time Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect.

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Jonathan Yundt, Regulated Industry Director, Hitachi Solutions

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Keith Shoulders, Scrum Master Team Lead, Hitachi Solutions Project Services

A Scrum Master Team Lead with Hitachi Solutions, Keith Shoulders is a trusted advisor for businesses. He advises internal teams on approaches to convert ideas into realized solutions. As a team-first leader, Keith is always surveying the landscape — looking for opportunities to evolve, mentor, and inspire both customers and team members alike. 

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Leah Quartano Bowling, Hitachi Solutions VP, Insurance & Healthcare


Leah focuses on helping insurance and healthcare industry clients and partners transform their business with the Microsoft Platform and supporting technologies. With over a decade of experience across hundreds of deployments and a wide range of workloads within insurance and healthcare, she currently leads go to market strategies and innovation centered around customer engagement and experience, data management, business intelligence, application modernization, and change management.

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Sharan Hildebrand, Hitachi Solutions VP, Global Group Partnerships

With more than 15 years of client development and consulting experience in the IT industry, I am passionate about partnering with customers and other corporate organizations to leverage technology that helps people reach their top line goals and address their biggest business problems.

I work with field sellers and partners to design, market and close projects that will provide deep value and guarantee high levels of client satisfaction. Additionally, I am a fierce supporter of elevating the next generation of female leaders in the technology space.  I’m fortunate to have an advisory seat on some amazing boards that promote female leadership development including Women in Cloud (WiC), Women’s Executive Channel Advisory Network (WECAN) and The WIT Mission.  I am also the author of, Finish the Sentence – A Business Fable About Women Unlocking Their Power And Discovering Career Success.

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Joel Lindstrom

Joel Lindstrom, the Senior Director for Power Platform and Automation at Hitachi Solutions North America, is a leader with over two decades of experience in the tech industry. Steering a team of dedicated Power Platform professionals, Joel has been instrumental in helping harness the power of low-code apps and automation. His profound impact and consistent excellence in the field have earned him recognition as a 14-time Microsoft MVP and a 3-time Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect.

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Michael Steel, Managing Principle, Cloud Security, Hitachi Solutions

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Sandeep Pawar, MVP

Sandeep is a Sr Power BI Architect at Hitachi Solutions America where he helps organizations build enterprise analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. He is also an active contributor to the Fabric community and Fabric MVP. He blogs about Fabric at fabric.guru and co-organizer of Vancouver Fabric & Power BI User Group.

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