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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Developer Tools space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jared Murrell
Director of GitHub
Jared Murrell is the Director at GitHub.
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Jeremy Adams
Director, Business Development – BD/Alliances of GitHub
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Kyle Daigle
Senior Director, Strategic Programs of GitHub
Kyle Daigle is the Senior Director, Strategic Programs at GitHub.
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Jamie Jones
Director, Field Architecture of GitHub
Jamie Jones is the Global Head of Field Services at GitHub.
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Nathan Henderson
Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East of GitHub
Nathan Henderson is the Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East at GitHub.
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Danielle Leong
Director Of Engineering of GitHub
Danielle Leong is the Director Of Engineering at GitHub.
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Matt Duff
Director of Delivery – Professional Services of GitHub
Matthew Duff is the Director of Delivery – Professional Services at GitHub.
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Matt Duff
Director of Delivery – Professional Services of GitHub
Matthew Duff is the Director of Delivery – Professional Services at GitHub.
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Brandon Middaugh
Director, Climate Innovation Fund of Microsoft
Brandon Middaugh is the Director of Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund program and strategy. In this capacity, she is focused on accelerating the widespread adoption of climate solutions and investing in innovative technologies. Previously, Brandon led the company’s global distributed energy strategy for Microsoft’s cloud energy and sustainability team. Prior to joining Microsoft, Brandon was a Vice President at SunEdison. Earlier in her career, Brandon led consulting engagements for energy clients and sustainable investment clients as a Vice President at Albright Stonebridge Group. Brandon holds an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and environmental science degrees from Yale University.
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Scott Hunter
Director of Program Management of Microsoft
Scott Hunter works for Microsoft as a Director of Program Management for the Azure Developer Experience Team overseeing the server frameworks, such as ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, Web Pages and NuGet. Before this Scott was the CTO of several startups including Mustang Software and Starbase, where he focused on a variety of technologies – but programming the Web has always been his real passion.
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Roy Sharples
Global Director, Industry Product Marketing and Microsoft Cloud of Microsoft
Roy Sharples is the worldwide leader for Microsoft’s industry product marketing management team that help industries innovate advance human achievement and positively impact society. Roy has held a range of product development marketing and consulting leadership positions with diverse international experiences at bringing new products and services to market profitably. Developing growth businesses with large enterprises emerging markets and start-ups across global north American European and UK markets.
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Gundrala Devender Goud
Sr Director – Systems Engineering /Azure of Microsoft
Gundrala Devender Goud is a Sr Director for Systems Engineering /Azure at Microsoft.
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Mahendra Sekaran
Partner Director of PM – Skype and Teams Services of Microsoft
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Allison Saltzer
Partner Sales Director of Microsoft
Allison Saltzer has spent the last 13 years at Microsoft, where she is the IOT Partner Director for the Americas in the Global Black Belt Sales Team. Prior to this role, Allison was the Senior Business Development Manager for Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research (AI & R) focused on Microsoft’s newest innovations in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing.
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Tina Tran
Director Of Business Development of Microsoft
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Mandana Javaheri
Global Director, Business Development of Microsoft
With more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and networking industries, Mandana Javaheri currently leads Microsoft Cybersecurity Business Development team. Before joining Microsoft, Mandana served as the CTO and head of technology alliances at Savvius, a network forensics company, where she defined product and technology directions as well as led strategic partnerships, product management and development. Mandana has a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MBA with concentration in finance and management. She also holds certifications in security, product management and leadership.
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Mark Shaw
Director of Hardware Engineering of Microsoft
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Mikhail Prudnikov
Director, Business Strategy of Microsoft
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Clayton Fernandez
Global Sales Director, Internet of Things (IoT) of Microsoft
Clayton is the Global Director for the Internet of Things and has been responsible for the growth of multiple emerging business for several high tech companies. Clayton has lived & worked Australia, UK, USA & Singapore and has extensive international experience. In his earlier career Clayton successfully led high profile enterprise infrastructure projects in several countries. Joining the Microsoft worldwide team in January 2013 as the first Internet of Things employee in Asia, he was responsible for defining the Internet of Things strategy around how Microsoft delivers experiences to a world of connected devices in Asia Pacific. Today Clayton is responsible for the Global Internet of Things Sales within the Intelligent Cloud Business. Clayton helps enterprise customers and partners take advantage of new, cloud-based opportunities, and fundamentally rethink their orthodoxies about value creation and value capture by leveraging Azure.
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Mira Lane
Partner Director, Ethics & Society – Cloud & Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
Mira Lane is the Partner Director of Ethics & Society within Cloud & AI at Microsoft. Mira runs a multidisciplinary team within an engineering context that is responsible for guiding technical and experience innovation towards ethical, responsible, and sustainable outcomes. The technology areas of interest to her team include speech & language, computer vision, ambient devices, intelligent meetings, intelligent agents, and mixed reality (AR, VR, HoloLens). Mira’s history at Microsoft has focused on experience strategy, incubation of new product concepts, and bringing products to market. She holds numerous patents across platforms and collaborative interfaces. She has held various roles through her technology career in development, product management, UX architect and design. Mira has a background in art, computer science, and mathematics. Her video art has been featured in film festivals and galleries.
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Jaime Perena
Director Marketing and Strategy and Enterprise Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
Jaime Perena is a Director of AI Marketing focused on Enterprise Solutions. He joined Microsoft in Feb 2009 as a Product Manager in the SQL Marketing Team. He has a large international career having held positions in Western Europe, as Modern Datacenter, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe leading Business Development activities. Prior to joining Microsoft, he obtained a Master’s degree in the Stanford Graduate School of business. Before moving to the US, he was the founder of the first ever Spanish Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. He also has experience as a consultant and researcher. In his early days as student he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Physics and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
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Itir Aloba-Curi
Sr. Director of Microsoft Advertising Sales, East Region of Microsoft
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Payal Gupta
Director of Program Management, Marketing Technology and Engineering of Microsoft
Payal is a marketing technology leader at Microsoft, leading the strategy and engineering for modernizing marketing at Microsoft by building the modern marketing cloud – including deploying first and third party cloud marketing capabilities, ecosystem integrations, data flow optimizations and building deep insights and analytics. Her deep focus is on deploying the global demand center capability for Microsoft to generate and nurture demand for their products.
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Jonas Nicholson
Director, Automotive Industry Technology Strategy of Microsoft
Jonas Nicholson is part of Microsoft’s Automotive Industry team. Rejoining Microsoft in June of 2018, he is responsible for the development of Microsoft’s global Automotive industry technology strategy. Leveraging the breadth and depth of Microsoft technologies along with partner solutions, Jonas focuses on strategy and business development in the areas of connected vehicles and smart mobility. Jonas has 19 years of experience building and delivering successful hardware and software products and services around new and emerging technologies. He originally joined the Microsoft WinCE Automotive team in 2000, working on the original Toyota G-Book project in Japan, Fiat’s Blue and Me in Turin, Italy followed by early work in the Ford Sync program. At Tweddle Group Technologies (TGT) in 2009, he designed and built the underlying server and mobile handset technologies that drove the “Toyota Entune,” “Lexus Enform App Suite” and “Chrysler Uconnect App.” During his tenure at TGT, he successfully led the company to acquisition by Nuance Communications. As CTO of OpenCar, his leadership and experience with the acquisition process led to another successful company buyout, this time by Kirkland-based Inrix. Jonas comes to Microsoft most recently from Kymeta, where he led the engineering and product development of a holographic beam-forming satellite Ku Band satellite antenna and the supporting Azure-based Virtual Network.
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Perry Lea
Director Of Architecture of Microsoft
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Amer Hassan
Senior Director, Principal Group Program Manager, Skype Business Services of Microsoft
Amer Hassan is a Senior Director, Principal Group Program Manager, Skype Business Services at Microsoft.
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Ian Bergman
Managing Director, Americas – Microsoft for Startups of Microsoft
As Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups, Ian is responsible for reaching and supporting the best early-stage technology startups in North and South America.
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David Weston
Director of Enterprise and OS Security in Azure Edge and Platform of Microsoft
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Sven Seger
Global Creative Director of Brand of Microsoft
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Russell Wilson
Partner Director of Microsoft
Russ Wilson joined Microsoft in December 2014 as a Partner Director and Head of Design for Business Intelligence, a collection of features and services that enable you to visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways. Prior to Microsoft, Russ was the founder and Director of IBM’s Mobile Innovation Lab. The mission of the lab is to identify disruptive mobile technologies and trends and transform them into new products and solutions that deliver significant value to individuals and companies. Russ also served as the Head of Design for IBM’s Application and Integration Middleware business unit, providing design leadership for Websphere, MobileFirst, Pure, IoT, and SmarterProcess. As one of IBM’s new Design Executives, Russ helped to teach and evangelize design thinking throughout IBM, and influence a new era in software product development. Prior to IBM, Russ was the worldwide Senior Vice President of User Experience at CA Technologies where he led the development of an enterprise-wide design language and a common application platform. Russ joined CA as part of the acquisition of NetQoS, where Russell was one of the original executives. Russ is a serial entrepreneur, an experienced executive, and has proven success in both startups and large companies. His interests include approaches to innovation, user experience design, rapid prototyping, and team building.
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Amol Adgaonkar
Director, Manufacturing Industry of Microsoft
Amol Adgaonkar is a Director of Business Strategy within the Manufacturing & Resources Industry team at Microsoft. The team is responsible for driving Microsoft’s industry strategy, sales, marketing, solutions development, development of Microsoft’s global industry partner ecosystem, as well as strategic engagements with global multinational customers. With a core focus on solution areas like Connected Field Services, Product Lifecycle Management, Configure-Price-Quote and Contract Lifecycle Management, Amol drives the go-to-market initiatives to transform manufacturing focused enterprises. He also focuses on field enablement and works with our solution sales teams & partners to drive industry solution wins globally. With a passion to enable digital transformations for customers along the Industry 4.0 initiatives, his interests lie in the Aerospace, Industrial Equipment and High-Tech industries all of which make up key verticals in the Manufacturing industry space.
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Chris Charla
Senior Director, Content Curation and Programs of Microsoft
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Irena Hsu
Director, Global Commercial Lifecycle Marketing of Microsoft
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Ravi Kandukuri
National SAP Sales Director, Retail & Consumer Goods (US) of Microsoft
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Harald Becker
Director Customer Engagements & Insights, Modern Work Customer Co-Innovation of Microsoft
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Nicholas Bouvier
Art Director of Microsoft
Nicolas Bouvier (Sparth) has been an active artistic director and concept designer in the video game industry since 1996. Born in France, he now lives in Seattle, Washington, working for Microsoft. He has contributed to the development of several released games since 1997; Alone in the dark 4 (2001), Cold Fear (2005), Prince of Persia – Warrior Within (2004), Assassin’s Creed (2007), and Rage (2011). Sparth also published two books highlighting his digital art, Structura I and Structura II, as well as more than 80 book covers for the book industry. In 2003, he decided to leave Paris for Montreal in order to join Ubisoft on their ongoing projects. He then left Montreal for Texas in October 2005, where he spent more than three years working for IDsoftware in Dallas. Finally, in January 2009, he joined Microsoft to participate to the future HALO adventures, releasing the awards winning game Halo 4 in November 2012.
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Michael Smuga
Principal Program Manager Director and Chief Of Staff of Microsoft
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Adam Isgreen
Creative Director of Microsoft
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Caroline Goles
Senior Director, Business Strategy of Microsoft
Senior sales & marketing executive with 16 years of software industry experience, specializing in go-to-market and connected sales-marketing strategies. Agile leader of global organizations with international leadership posts in Japan and Asia Pacific. Currently, a senior director in the Global Corporate Accounts Strategy team, leading digital sales strategy.
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Sachin Gupta
Americas Director, Advanced Compliance GBB Team of Microsoft
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Ali Alpay
Senior Director, Surface Commercial Marketing Leader of Microsoft
Ali Alpay is responsible for worldwide marketing of Surface to commercial, public sector, and educational organizations. Working closely with a broad network of partners, his team helps people do great things with the most productive devices on the planet, including Surface Go, Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, Surface Studio, Surface Book, and Surface Hub. In his 15 years at Microsoft, Ali served in several leadership positions, ranging from developer evangelism to product management, spanning commercial, business operations, consumer and online. Prior to Microsoft, Ali was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. Ali holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sandra Larrea
Director Technical Specialist Management, US NSO Dynamics Finance and Supply Chain of Microsoft
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Fernando Hernandez
Director Supplier Diversity & Sustainability of Microsoft
Mr. Hernandez serves as Supplier Diversity Director for Microsoft Corporation. In this capacity, he drives Microsoft’s strategies to achieve supplier diversity objectives. He is responsible for Microsoft’s $3.2 Billion annual Supplier Diversity initiative and $4 Billion in indirect sustainability. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Hernandez served as Senior Vice President of Multicultural Marketing Strategy for Washington Mutual Bank where he established, developed, and implemented comprehensive multicultural marketing initiatives. He formerly served as Executive Director of Multicultural Marketing with AT&T. Mr. Hernandez was the first to establish and implement multicultural business to business and consumer marketing (Hispanic, African-American, and Asian) at AT&T in 1991. This resulted in the creation of a $1.5 Billion market segment. He holds a degree in Accounting from Saint Peter’s College and his Masters in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology. He studied at the Wharton School of Business.
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Kathy Minnis
Director of Product Strategy, Modern Workplace Verticals of Microsoft
Kathy Minnis is Director of Product Strategy for Modern Workplace Verticals at Microsoft. She helps shape Microsoft’s vision and product innovation roadmap for addressing the need for modern collaboration tools in healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and other specialized industries. She has played a key role in the expansion of Office 365 and Microsoft Teams with capabilities to empower the world’s more than 2 billion Firstline Workers. Prior to her current role, Kathy was part of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence & Research group, where she was involved in innovation planning and product design for Microsoft’s search business and AI user experience, as well as driving a cross-company effort to develop ethical design principles for AI products. Before shifting to the technology sector, Kathy was an Emmy-award winning journalist and independent television/documentary producer passionate about empathetic storytelling. She brings that passion to product development at Microsoft helping drive empathy in product design, putting the customer at the center of product strategy.
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Max Wheeler
Engineering Director of Microsoft
Max Wheeler has been serving as Engineering Director at Microsoft since December 2015.
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Andrew Flick
Director of Microsoft
Andrew Flick joined Microsoft in December 2018 and is responsible for DevOps on Azure. His role can best be described as ensuring that Azure is perceived as the best solution for DevOps which includes both 1st party and 3rd party solutions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Andrew was a Senior Director at HP/Micro Focus responsible for their DevOps toolset. Andrew graduated from Bradley University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science.
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Omeed Rameshni
Studio Senior Business Director of Microsoft
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Carr Phillips
Director of Product Marketing of Microsoft
Carr Phillips is the industry product marketing director for the financial services industry.
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Eric Bailey
Global Director, VenueSource, Payment of Microsoft
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Jeremy Diamond
Global Director, Financial Services, Insurance of Microsoft
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Julie Strauss
Partner PM Director of Microsoft
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Portia Wu
Managing Director of US Public Policy of Microsoft
Portia Wu is Managing Director of US Public Policy for Microsoft; her team handles federal policy issues critical to the technology industry, including Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, workforce, and emerging technologies. Wu previously served in the Obama Administration and as Labor Counsel to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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Tren Griffin
Senior Director of Microsoft
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Jon Farmer
Director, Financial Services Industry Marketing of Microsoft
Jon Farmer is the Director of Financial Services industry marketing for the Microsoft 365 unit of Microsoft. Jon focuses on modern work initiatives in banking, capital markets and insurance – specifically in the areas of collaboration, productivity, security and trust. He is a graduate of UCLA and Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and resides in Seattle area.
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Director – Business Architecture of Microsoft
Manav leads the Data, AI and IOT partner (channel) strategy and Go To market for Microsoft. Extremely passionate about partner transformation, Manav is focused on ensuring partners are able to build profitable practices and business leveraging Microsoft’s portfolio of data, AI and IOT products and services.
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Kevin Chan
Director, Global Partners of Microsoft
Kevin Chan leads the development & business transformation of key global partners across Microsoft’s products and cloud services. Kevin has being with Microsoft for over 20 years.
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Dan Greenawalt
Partner, Creative Director of Microsoft
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Chung Webster
Partner Director of Software Engineering – Modern and Government Commerce, Cloud+AI of Microsoft
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Tatiana Ospina
Sr. Director – Global Manage Service Providers at Microso of Microsoft
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Ivan Gomez
Director of Marketing and Operations of Microsoft
As a Business Strategy lead for the Small and Medium size market my role is to work with our sellers in the field and our partners to find the best route to markets to enable organizations to achieve more.
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Dan Rippey
Director of Engineering, One Commercial Partner of Microsoft
Dan Rippey is the Director of Engineering for Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner organization, leading a team of engineers that power digital experiences across partner.microsoft.com
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Natalia Mackevicius
Director, Program Management – Azure Stack of Microsoft
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Adwait Joshi
Director of Product Marketing of Microsoft
Adwait Joshi (AJ) is a Director of Product Marketing for Azure Security. He leads product management and marketing for security services available on Microsoft Azure, most recently focused on cloud native SIEM offering called Azure Sentinel. AJ has over 15 years of experience in the enterprise security industry with various roles across technical consulting, product management, marketing and sales.
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Charles Morris
Director, Global Learning & Development of Microsoft
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Erin Friedman
Senior Director Product Marketing, Biz Apps of Microsoft
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Indranil Sircar
Director, Business Strategy of Microsoft
Indranil Sircar is a CTO for Microsoft Manufacturing Industry. Indranil is focused on shaping Microsoft’s industry solutions by driving the full value of product innovation and roadmap to accelerate digital transformation and value to customers and partners. Indranil joined Microsoft in 2012 and has been responsible for establishing and driving Microsoft’s strategy for high-tech, semiconductor industry and intelligent supply chain with focus on IoT, AI, Mixed Reality, Blockchain etc. Indranil brings with him more than 30 years of experience at strategy and technology leadership in developing industry solutions and processes.
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David Sayed
Senior Director Azure Media & Entertainment Technologies of Microsoft
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Jeremy Chapman
Director of Microsoft
Jeremy leads Microsoft Mechanics at Microsoft for the tech enthusiast and IT pro audience. Before joining Microsoft, Jeremy spent 7+ years in IT in roles in Europe and Asia. In his time at Microsoft, he’s been in engineering and technical marketing roles for server and tools, Windows client, Office and the Microsoft Cloud. He’s a frequent speaker at events and a fixture of new product announcements for tech audiences. @deployjeremy www.microsoft.com/mechanics
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Ed Doran
Senior Director Product Management, Microsoft Research, 4x Founder of Microsoft
Ed Doran is a proven technology leader and founder (Cortana). He began his career in market research and insight, expanded to management consulting, and ultimately to product and business leadership. He has experience leading in large and small organizations, local and global teams, and complex partnerships. Ed sets the vision, builds the teams, and drives… 1. Developing a deep understanding of consumers, competitors, and the technology landscape. Identifying the high value business opportunity based on the market conditions 2. Delivering compelling experiences by bringing together business, engineering, and design across platforms. 3. Driving momentum for the experience, brand, and company through marketing (e.g., brand, positioning, messaging), business strategy, and strategic partnerships Ed’s teams integrate design, engineering, and business to create great products at a global scale. Ed has earned a doctorate degree as well as received specialized training at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Keith Boyd
Director, Field Applications and Data Management Services of Microsoft
A 19-year veteran of Microsoft, Keith recently joined the Field Application and Data Services team where he’s responsible for Microsoft’s Connected Data Services offerings. Prior to joining the team, he worked in Microsoft Learning where he managed the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) and instructor-led training learning portfolio. Previously he served in leadership roles in C&E and Windows, working on every release from Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1.
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Dennis Vanderlip
Director, Industry Solutions of Microsoft
Dennis Vanderlip is the Director of Insurance Industry Solutions on the Worldwide Financial Services Industry team at Microsoft. Dennis is responsible for helping Microsoft’s largest insurance customers leverage the Microsoft platform to provide solutions to business challenges. His focus is on helping customers on their Digital Transformation journey. He was previously the Financial Services Industry Director at Microsoft in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Dennis has worked in the Financial Services industry both in the United States and in Europe for more than 20 years.
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Mike Walker
Senior Director, Applied Innovation and Digital Transformation of Microsoft
Mike J. Walker is a Research Director responsible for conducting research in the Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation areas. Mike Walker is specifically focused on how organizations can use business-outcome-driven EA to respond to disruptive trends, such as digital business, emerging technologies and smart machines. Prior to joining Gartner, Mike Walker was a seasoned Chief Architect both working as an advisor with the top global 100 companies on business transformation, strategy and enterprise architecture, along with also leading and establishing internal enterprise architecture programs within major organizations. As an enterprise architecture thought leader, Mike Walker published numerous books, publications, authoritative architecture guidance, white papers, publication of international standards and standardized frameworks.
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Ankur Arora
Director, WW Partner Strategy: Security & Compliance of Microsoft
Cybersecurity and Compliance are top-of-mind board level conversations today. Gartner predicts customer spend to the tune of $153B by 2021. As customers embrace cybersecurity and compliance as an integral part of their digital transformation, they look upon Microsoft partners to simplify this journey for them. Ankur’s goal is to be able to engage with OCP Field teams and Microsoft partners to capitalize on this opportunity and ultimately align the right partner with the right skill set for the right customer opportunity.
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Nick Katsivelos
Global Media Industry Digital Strategy Director of Microsoft
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Gavin King
Senior Director of Marketing and Chief Storyteller of Microsoft
Gavin King is a marketing and communications leader with unique experience building the brands of technology businesses. Currently Gavin is the senior director of marketing for Microsoft 365 where he and his team drives commercial product marketing and storytelling for Windows, Office and management product areas. In a 18 year career at Microsoft, Gavin has held a variety of marketing and communications leadership positions, including Chief of Staff to current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella where he lead operations for Microsoft’s $20bn+ cloud business.
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Charles Noski
Board of Directors of Microsoft
Noski retired as vice chairman of Bank of America Corporation in September 2012. From May 2010 through June 2011, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for all finance functions as well as Corporate Treasury, Global Corporate Strategy Planning and Development, Investor Relations, Corporate Investments and Global Principal Investments. Noski joined the Microsoft Board in November 2003, and also serves on the boards of directors of Avon Products, Inc., The Priceline Group Inc., and the National Association of Corporate Directors. From 1999 to 2002, Noski served as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of AT&T Corporation, and retired as vice chairman of the board of directors upon the completion of AT&T’s restructuring in November 2002. From 2003 to 2005, Noski was corporate vice president and chief financial officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, and was a director from 2002 to 2005. Prior to joining AT&T, Noski was president, chief operating officer, and a member of the board of directors of Hughes Electronics Corporation, a publicly-traded subsidiary of General Motors Corporation in the satellite and wireless communications business. Since 2000, he has also served for various periods on the boards of directors of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Avery Dennison Corporation, and Morgan Stanley. Noski is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Executives International, immediate past chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the FASB, and a past member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Noski retired as vice chairman of Bank of America Corporation in September 2012. From May 2010 through June 2011, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for all finance functions as well as Corporate Treasury, Global Corporate Strategy Planning and Development, Investor Relations, Corporate Investments and Global Principal Investments. Noski joined the Microsoft Board in November 2003, and also serves on the boards of directors of Avon Products, Inc., The Priceline Group Inc., and the National Association of Corporate Directors. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Noski served as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of AT&T Corporation, and retired as vice chairman of the board of directors upon the completion of AT&T’s restructuring in November 2002. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Noski was corporate vice president and chief financial officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, and was a director from 2002 to 2005. Prior to joining AT&T, Noski was president, chief operating officer, and a member of the board of directors of Hughes Electronics Corporation, a publicly-traded subsidiary of General Motors Corporation in the satellite and wireless communications business. Since 2000, he has also served for various periods on the boards of directors of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Avery Dennison Corporation, and Morgan Stanley. Noski is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Executives International, immediate past chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the FASB, and a past member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
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Daniel Yu
Director Products – Azure Data and Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
WW Product Marketing Lead for Azure Analytics and Storage.
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Joe Wallis
Director, Microsoft Military Affairs of Microsoft
Joe Wallis is currently Director of Military Engagement, Microsoft Military Affairs. Joe is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Marine Corps Reserve. Upon commissioning as a Second Lieutenant, Joe served over five years on active duty as a Communications Officer and Recruit Training Commander. He continued serving in the Marine Corps Reserve with 28 years of combined active and reserve service. Post 9/11/2001, Joe served over 5 years on active duty. He worked on NATO accession in Eastern Europe with EUCOM and then supported SOUTHCOM in Central and South America designing training for UN Peacekeeping Missions globally. Joe completed his reserve time on active orders with Headquarters Marine Corps Manpower Management as the Section Head of Active Duty Officer Career Counseling. Joe’s corporate experience has been in talent management and acquisition. He has held staffing, consulting and leadership positions with Bradley-Morris, Accenture, A.T. Kearney Executive Search and Washington Mutual Bank. His recruiting experience spans over 20 years supporting IT, Manufacturing, Finance, Consulting and Supply Chain. Well over half of his experience in recruiting has been focused on transitioning veterans. He is honored to have a role at Microsoft that allows him to serve military veterans. Joe has a BS from the U.S. Naval Academy and a MA from the University of Miami in International Relations. He has also studied at the Naval War College, Joint Forces Staff College, and the National Defense University.
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Chandra Stevens
Global Director, Microsoft Marketing Solutions of Microsoft
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Johan Jonsson
Director Dynamics Partner Incentives of Microsoft
Mr. Jonsson is a 25-year veteran with Microsoft. A native of Sweden, he has worked for Microsoft in several capacities in the Nordics, Ireland and in the US, where he currently is a Director on the Incentives team in the One Commercial Partner (OCP) organization. Mr. Jonsson is focused on Usage and Dynamics incentives, and he is responsible for Design and Go-To-Market for incentives relating to the following partner incentive programs: Online Services Usage, Online Software Advisor Sell, Certified Software Advisor incentive and the SPA agreement.
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Chris Boar
Director ISV Partner Experience of Microsoft
Chris leads the partner execution and go to market strategy for Applications and Infrastructure on Azure. Chris is extremely passionate about helping our partners accelerate our customers migration to Azure and driving advanced innovation into their critical applications.
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Gunter Schneider
Director WW Software Asset Management & Compliance of Microsoft
Gunter leads the worldwide Microsoft SAM Solution Assessment organization. He is now based in Redmond after multi-year assignments with Microsoft in both Europe (2000-2010) and China (2010-2016). He was born in Austria and educated at the Universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Birmingham. He holds a master degree in legal studies and bachelor degrees in both political science and history.
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Jake Zborowski
Director of Strategy of Microsoft
Jake Zborowski leads the commercial marketplace product management and horizontal category management teams within Microsoft. His team focuses on defining the capabilities that help partners grow their business by leveraging Microsoft’s commerce capabilities, brand, products and channels. Jake has more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry. Jake joined Microsoft in 2006 from a business intelligence software startup. He has subsequently held several leadership roles within Microsoft, most recently with Azure and DX, and previously helping lead the transition of Office, Exchange and SharePoint Server into the leader in cloud productivity.
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Gideon Bibliowicz
Director of product marketing – Unified Endpoint Management (MEM/Intune/SCCM) of Microsoft
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Chris Massot
Director of Co-Innovation of Microsoft
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Charles Eichenbaum
Senior Director, Marketing Technology and Applied Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
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Debbie Hutchings
Director, Integrated Marketing of Microsoft
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Aaron Rimmer
Director of Microsoft Teams Outbound Marketing of Microsoft
Aaron Rimmer is the Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Teams where he is responsible for driving outbound marketing efforts through Microsoft’s field, partner community, and direct to customer channels. He’s been with Microsoft for 12 years previously focused on driving awareness, adoption, and usage of SharePoint and OneDrive. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, Aaron worked for several global consulting firms where he focused on designing, implementing, and deploying content management and custom business solutions built on Microsoft technologies. Aaron holds a B.A. and MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business.
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Karen Garrette
Global Retail Industry Director of Microsoft
Karen Garrette, Industry Director, Retail & CG, Karen joined Microsoft in 2011 and has spent all her working life in retail & distribution, business technology solution sales, marketing and pre-sales. This experience has taught her 1st hand the challenges that retailers of today deal with in the age of the connected customer and the issues and restrictions that many face in meeting these challenges with disconnected solutions and process’s. Having worked in a variety of roles from presales to consultancy means she has the depth and breadth of experience and the deep technical understanding that allows her to translate the feature and function set into customer solutions and win against the competition. She moved to the US from EMEA 5 years ago, and spent a couple of years in C&E building retail industry solutions, now she is part of WW Retail driving strategy and operations.
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Frank Rey
Senior Director, Global Network Infrastructure of Microsoft
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Badriddine Khessib
Senior Director, Windows Azure of Microsoft
Badriddine Khessib is a Senior Director for Windows Azure at Microsoft.
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Casey Hudson
Creative Director of Microsoft
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Jonathan Silverman
Director, WW Insurance Industry Solutions of Microsoft
Jonathan Silverman is the director of WW Insurance Industry Solutions at Microsoft.
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Dianne O’Brien
Sr. Director, Azure Partner Strategy of Microsoft
Dianne O’Brien is the Azure Partner Strategy Lead for the One Commercial Partner organization of Microsoft responsible for developing and landing the Azure partner strategy with our field and partners. Prior to this, she was Chief of Staff for Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Business Development. In this role, Dianne is responsible for managing the office of the EVP, including setting and managing the long term organization strategy, developing and executing our communications strategy, and setting policies and processes for managing the organization. Prior to this role, Dianne was Senior Director of Business Development for Cloud & Enterprise. In this role Dianne was responsible for developing the Cloud & Enterprise business development strategy for commercial deals that fill key technology or business gaps that will help accelerate the C&E business growth, with a particular focus on realizing our Cloud OS vision and the success of Microsoft Azure and Dynamics. Prior to moving into Business Development for C&E, Dianne was a part of the Microsoft Azure business team, joining as its third member in 2008 as the Senior Director for Business Planning and Operations, responsible for all long-term business planning, offer and channel strategy, business desk, and performance management. During her nearly nineteen-year Microsoft tenure she has held senior leadership positions in the corporate planning and finance functions including leading the Global R&D finance team and serving as IT Controller. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dianne owned a private CPA practice, and was the Assistant General Manager of a public utility service in San Diego County where she was responsible for the implementation of several major technology initiatives. Dianne holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of San Diego. She lives with her husband and on Whidbey Island near Seattle, and enjoys fishing and watching baseball.
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Mark Protus
Director Modern Learning & Video Office of Microsoft
Mark Protus started his Microsoft career more than 25 years ago, developing interactive training and courseware for their first certification program which remains one of the most sought-after global standards. His multi-dimensional impact to promote learning and software solutions includes roles in customer marketing, training, education, and courseware development. Mark is now the Director of Modern Learning and Video for Microsoft Office leading online training across platforms and devices. As a Microsoft employee and industry consultant, Mark has a long history of leading pioneering learning and training efforts, including the Microsoft Virtual Academy and the Microsoft Mastering Series products.
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Jay Schmelzer
Partner Director of Program Management of Microsoft
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Alexander Pries
Director Business Planning of Microsoft
Alexander is Director of Business Planning in Microsoft’s Cloud Marketing Division. His primary mission is to define the worldwide partner strategy across Azure, Data Platform, Hybrid Cloud, Application Platform, IoT and Security. In this role, he and his organization are transforming and expanding Microsoft´s cloud partner ecosystem across ISV’s, Managed Services Provider, Consulting Partner and Resellers.
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Donna Macek
Global Client Director of Microsoft
Donna Macek is Board of Directors at Lumity.
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Ben Porter
Director of Business Development – Quantum Computing of Microsoft
Ben Porter is Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s quantum computing group. He is a seasoned business development and strategy executive with a long track record of structuring and negotiating high-impact partnerships. With over 15 years of experience innovating at the intersection of hardware, software and services, Ben has a strong passion for launching new businesses. Prior to working with Microsoft’s quantum computing group he designed strategy and new business models for Microsoft HoloLens and other mixed reality products and services. Earlier in his career, Ben was a key member of the team that developed and launched the interactive entertainment platform on Xbox. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree from New York University.
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Stella Chernyak
Sr.Director, Marketing of Microsoft
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Brad Larsen
Senior Director, Microsoft Partner Co-Sell Programs of Microsoft
Larsen is a long-time Microsoft leader and currently serves as Senior Director of the company’s Partner Co-Sell Programs within the One Commercial Partner organization. In this role, he leads a team to define the strategy and program development to accelerate how Microsoft and its commercial business partners engage to sell industry-aligned cloud-based solutions to our mutual customers. This approach accelerates time to customer success in digital transformation scenarios, grows partner revenue, and deepens Microsoft’s role as a trusted technology advisor. Prior to this role, Larsen held positions leading Microsoft’s partner enablement and readiness efforts, and in various commercial marketing and operational roles at the company.
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