Steve Kraynak enjoys helping others learn and succeed with Excel, and is recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for his expertise and contributions to the community of Excel users worldwide.  He is a Director at SumProduct.com, a leading modelling, training, and business consultancy firm, with offices around the world.

Steve joined SumProduct after more than a decade as a Product Manager for the Excel team at Microsoft, where he helped craft many features in Excel, including new worksheet functions like IFS & TEXTJOIN, Data from Picture, Excel for Mac, user experience improvements like Smooth Scrolling, and many others.

Steve has been a featured presenter and trainer at Microsoft Ignite, Excelapalooza, Excel Summit South, Excel Virtually Global, Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS), EuSpRIG, the Meonske Accounting & Professional Development Conference, APIC, Microsoft TechReady, the SharePoint Conference and others.

Steve has nearly 30 years of experience working with Excel and related tools. Prior to his time with Microsoft, he was instrumental in leading Customer Success at a start-up, Prodiance, who were acquired by Microsoft and their tools integrated into Excel. He has also a decade of experience in the vaccine manufacturing industry, where he made his mark by using desktop tools such as Excel to automate and simplify many business processes.

Steve likes to encourage people that "It can be done!" in Excel, so they don't limit their thinking or their goals. He also likes to provide solutions that are as simple and understandable as possible, since not everyone is an expert.