Community Grandmasters represent the best of the best when it comes to collaboration, leadership, and the passion to share their knowledge and expertise within the community. Evaluated on a yearly basis, each Grandmaster is chosen based on the quality and quantity of Community contributions. Visit our monthly leaderboard to see where you stand!
Strategy celebrates the following Community Members. Stay tuned for future developments in our program!
Samundar is a BI Strategist / Head of Enterprise Business Intelligence and Customer Insight & Analytics group. Samundar has over a decade of expertise in end-to-end BI solution design using MicroStrategy and passion towards continuing to learn and share MicroStrategy product knowledge via Community. Samundar specializes in Data Analytics and Business Intelligence project deliveries in various business domains (Banking and Financial services, Insurance, Healthcare, and Retail).
He has been a member of MicroStrategy Community (then called Forum) since 2011-12 and he was Sr. Guru and top contributing member for multiple years in a row before transformation of Forum into new MicroStrategy Community. He is most passionate about sharing experience around BI practice in general and more specific to MicroStrategy discussion questions as well as encouraging and inviting other members to participate in the solution conversations. He was MicroStrategy Community Influencer for the year 2021.
Manish is a Senior BI Architect at Cognizant, and winner of the 2019 Datathon. Manish has spent many years learning the ins and outs of our product, and has earned nine MicroStrategy Certifications. He is a true MicroStrategy expert with a proven track record of executing several BI projects and strategic initiatives in the Retail, BFS and Live Sciences domains.
Manish's passion for helping people gather intelligent insights is evident through his contributions to MicroStrategy Community. Manish spends time helping MicroStrategy users from across the globe in our discussion forums. He is quick to troubleshoot and provide resolutions, which has led to him receiving over 100 "Best Answer" designations.
Shivam is working in BI field with over two years of experience in BI field. He has good working knowledge in MicroStrategy Development and Administration, specifically with administrative tools. Shivam excels in automating workflows using System Manager, creating procedures/scripts using Command Manager, creating amazing automation shell scripts, as well building Dashboards to help customers resolve any complex/challenging issues they face in their environment.
In his free time, Shivam loves to help answer questions and contribute to discussions in Community which not only helps him gain more knowledge about the various tools/features but alos helps fellow users to find answers about their queries.
Ryan is the Chief Analytics Officer at AllScient and is a former MicroStrategist with over 20 years of MicroStrategy experience. Ryan has seen it all and has the unique ability to work through technical details while simultaneously keeping his eye on the big picture. Ryan has worked with over 50 companies to create analytics products that allow companies to maximize their ROI on data assets.
Ryan is a 6-time Community Grandmaster, and one of the all-time Community greats. Leveraging his 20 years of MicroStrategy experience, Ryan is an excellent asset within the Community and is often found in our Discussion section sharing his knowledge and solving problems for others. Ryan approaches data from the unique perspective that it is as much art as it is science, and believes that analytics should be treated as a core competency of an organization rather than simply a technical implementation. We agree!
Nate is a BI Solutions Engineer at Lincoln Financial. Nate has built out several MicroStrategy solutions in the Insurance and Finance industries since becoming a customer in 2008. He is skilled in many areas including administration, schema architecture, system manager automation and mobile development. He has been a certified MicroStrategy Architect for 10 years.
Nate enjoys being a part of the MicroStrategy Community and actively participates in discussions, the generation of new ideas and was even a v10 Beta Tester. He loves to assist team members in architecting new solutions, performance tuning schemas and databases, and providing the best customer experience to end users. When providing feedback on Community discussions he likes to give options and perspective on different ways to solve a problem and he hopes to continue to learn from the greater Community.
Iulian is the CEO of Empower BI, a Bucharest-based consulting firm with the goal of helping customers make the most out of their investment in #MicroStrategy. Iulian has seven MicroStrategy certifications and has dedicated years to becoming an expert.
Iulian does not shy away from a challenge. One of his favorite things about the MicroStrategy Community is the sense of accomplishment that comes with helping people find solutions to their challenges, as well as the support he receives from the Community when he needs a hand.
