Christian Bolton is the CEO of Cloud Rede, a leading provider of managed services for SQL Server and public cloud services. He was the first person outside Microsoft globally to become certified as a Microsoft Certified Architect in SQL Server and is also a Microsoft Certified Master and Trainer.

A former Microsoft employee, Christian has co-authored 5 books on SQL Server and was the lead author for the popular SQL Server Internals & Troubleshooting books.

He is based in the UK and lives in the south of England with his wife and children. Christian can be contacted through https://cloudrede.com