Rajesh George is one of the founders of the SQL Server Express project within Microsoft, and has been involved in many of the key design decisions. He worked as a program manager on the SQL Server team responsible for various functionalities in SQL Server Express, MSDE, and SQL Data Access layers. He has spoken at several conferences and has authored the SQL Server Express Overview white paper on Microsoft.com. With prior software development experience in the Windows team at Microsoft as well as companies such as Nortel Networks and Netscape, he is currently a development manager at Amazon.com. Rajesh holds a Masters in Computer Science from Mississippi State University and MBA from University of Washington. You can reach him directly at contactgeorger@yahoo.com.

Lance Delano is a lead program manager in Visual Studio. Lance has an extensive background in database tools including database design and query tools. He is heavily involved in the customer research, proposals, specification, and program management of SQL Server Express.