The Kentico MVP awards for 2012 were presented to:

• Brian McKeiver, Partner and Senior Developer at BizStream, a Kentico Gold Partner from Michigan;
• Bryan Soltis, Director of Research&Technology at Bit-Wizards a Kentico Gold Partner from Florida;
• Jeroen Furst, Kentico Lead Developer at IBL-Software a Kentico Gold partner from the Netherlands.

Each received this prestigious honor for their passion about the tools and technologies of Kentico, .NET and the CMS community worldwide.
 
Brian McKeiver was honored with his first Kentico Most Valuable (MVP) Award, for his exceptional contributions to the Kentico community, represented by his blog about ASP.NET and Kentico technology. His blog can be found at: http://mcbeev.com.
 
“The Community is a vital part of Kentico CMS and .NET, and MVPs are the heart of this community”, said Thom Robbins, Kentico Chief Evangelist, “The consistent and valuable contributions of Bryan Soltis and Jeroen Furst this year are an example of this. Recognizing Brian McKeiver as a Kentico MVP is a natural extension for his outstanding contributions to help the worldwide community.”
 
Brian McKeiver has over 12 years experience in web development. Brian has been using Kentico CMS since version 3.1a. “It sure has come a long way since those days. I am still impressed with how quickly you can build blocks of content, create custom forms on the fly, and integrate with existing databases all with the same product.” says Brian McKeiver, newest Kentico MVP.
 
“I am extremely excited about being selected as a Kentico MVP. I feel honored and proud to receive this award, and hope that my contributions to the community have helped other developers overcome their hurdles. It’s easy to be passionate about Kentico CMS because it is such a great piece of technology with a great group of people behind it. I will do my best to keep contributing to the community and growing the use of Kentico CMS,” adds Brian McKeiver, Senior Developer at BizStream.
 
Kentico MVPs are selected from hundreds of Kentico CMS experts located within any of the 87 countries where Kentico CMS is used. To receive the Kentico MVP Award status, individuals can submit their application at the Kentico web site. These submissions are then reviewed by a board of Kentico executives. More information about the MVP Award can be found at: http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Thomas-Robbins/January-2010/Announcing-the-Kentico-MVP-Award.aspx

 
About Kentico CMS
 
Kentico CMS is an affordable Web Content Management and Customer Experience Management solution providing a complete set of features for building websites, community sites, intranets and on-line stores on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports WYSIWYG editing, workflows, multiple languages, full-text search, SEO, on-line forms, image galleries, forums, groups, blogs, polls, media libraries and is shipped with 330+ configurable Web parts. It’s currently used by more than 12,000 websites in 87 countries. The clients include Microsoft, McDonald's, Vodafone, O₂, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, Guinness, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.

 
About Kentico Software
 
Kentico Software (www.kentico.com) helps clients create professional websites, online stores, community sites and intranets using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It's committed to deliver a full-featured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the Microsoft .NET platform. Founded in 2004, Kentico is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has offices in the United States (Nashua, NH and Seattle, WA) and United Kingdom (Reading area). Since its inception, Kentico has continued to rapidly expand the Kentico CMS user base worldwide. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2010, Kentico was named the fastest growing technology company in the Czech Republic in the Deloitte Technology FAST 50 awards.