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Editorial Team

Mirela Ardelean

Founder and board member of RoOUG, board member of EOUC, Mirela is a database and APEX developer who is dedicating part of her free time to activities that lead to collaboration between Oracle User Groups. She is organizing the annual OGBEMEA Tour, she is part of #mashprogram team and she is also an Oracle ACE.

Andrejs Vorobjovs

Andrejs’ qualifications and background are in data base administrating and data engineering, with 15 years of experience in Oracle technology. In 2007, he has established LVOUG (Latvia).

Ann-Sofie Vikström Often

Board member of OUGN (Norway) who is responsible for international contacts. She is also program manager for the conferences. Daily working as consultant in integration team at Sysco in Norway.

Christian Trieb

A member of DOAG since 1991, founder of the Rhine-Main regional group, and Oracle ACE Director since 2011. As a board member, Christian was responsible for all special interest groups in the Oracle area. From 2007 to 2009 Deputy Chairman of the Board for Database and International Strategy. As head of the database community, he has been on the DOAG board since 2011 and represents DOAG in the IOUC and is involved in the EOUC. Professionally a senior database administrator at Paragon Data GmbH; likes to spend time with family and likes to eat good. 

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