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This list showcases the top Washington based Director operating in the Software 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.
Alan Stearns
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Adobe
Alan Stearns is a Co-Chairman of CSS Working Group at Adobe Systems.
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About : Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Elliot Sedegah
Director, Strategy & Product Marketing of Adobe
Elliot is a senior manager of strategy & product marketing at Adobe. In his role, Elliot leads global business growth & go-to-market for digital asset management & rich media product offerings in Adobe’s digital experience management business. Elliot holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a MS in Engineering Management from The George Washington University, & a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland. Elliot is also a co-founder of the educational non-profit, The A.B. Foundation.
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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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Mark Shaw
Director of Hardware Engineering 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eric Bailey
Global Director, VenueSource, Payment 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Augusto Valdez
Director of Product Marketing of Microsoft
Augusto Valdez is responsible for defining worldwide marketing strategy for selling Windows 10 Pro in the business segment, collaborating across sales, marketing and partner organizations. During his 24 years at Microsoft Augusto has been part of the Windows Phone, Windows Server and Microsoft Project Marketing teams in the United States and has managed Sales and Partner teams in Microsoft Subsidiary in Peru. Before joining Microsoft, Augusto held positions in sales and project management at IBM in Peru.
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Ryan Salva
Director of Product Management of Microsoft
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David Dennis
Director of Product Marketing, Linux on Azure of Microsoft
David has over 18 years of experience in the enterprise IT infrastructure management and open source spaces, providing product and marketing leadership for a broad range of software solutions, mostly recently with a focus on cloud and containers. Prior to Bitnami, David was VP of Marketing at GroundWork. Before that, David has head of marketing for two startups, one in the Linux change & configuration management space (Levanta), and the other in the IT service catalog space (Centrata). Before entering the startup world, David served in product management and technical marketing roles for IT management products at Mercury Interactive, Hewlett-Packard, and Symantec, where he provided technical solutions for hundreds of enterprise customers in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Tony Emerson
Managing Director, Worldwide Media & Cable of Microsoft
Tony Emerson, Managing Director for Media WW at Microsoft, manages Microsoft’s Media Industry Solutions Ecosystem as well as leading Microsoft’s involvement at both the National Association of Broadcasters Exhibition and International Broadcasting Conference. A veteran of Microsoft since 2000, he was appointed Industry Solutions manager for Media and Cable in 2011 and succeeded to the Managing Director role in 2013. He has a broad background in media/broadcasting having previously worked at KCSM-TV in California and as a founding employee of the Stanford University Television network. He was also involved in as a lender to the industry while at First Chicago and Crocker Bank.
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Shawn Davis
Sr. Director, Digital Stores Analytics of Microsoft
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Chris Bunio
Senior Director, Higher Education of Microsoft
Chris is the Senior Director for Higher Education at Microsoft. Chris leads the sales strategy and engagement for Higher Education institutions working across Microsoft and partners to address they key challenges for customers in this critical segment.
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Shaun Harris
Director of Engineering of Microsoft
Shaun Harris is the director of engineering at Microsoft.
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John Doyle
Director, Industry Solutions, Worldwide Health Industry of Microsoft
As a Director within the worldwide health industry team at Microsoft, John Doyle is responsible for the development of strategy, partnerships and solutions within the health industry, globally. John, engages with industry customers and partners, developing strategies and repeatable solutions that harness the power of cloud and AI to drive innovation and transformation within the health industry.
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Darren Bacon
Associate Art Director of Microsoft
Darren Bacon is a concept artist who has contributed to the development of video games, film and animation at studios like Bungie, Disney (Walt Disney Television Animation, ImageMovers Digital) and Electronic Arts. Darren is currently living in Seattle, Washington working on Halo 5 at Microsoft’s 343 Industries.
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Praveen Palepu
Director for Marketing Data Science, Marketing Operations and Technology of Microsoft
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Analisa Roberts
Director, Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing Team of Microsoft
As the Director of Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing at Microsoft, my mission is to build a team poised to break new ground and recruit, educate and assist potential partners about the power of Azure, Azure Sphere, Windows IoT,Cloud-based business solutions and Intelligent Edge device design. The energy around the Intelligent Edge allows me to be in a constant state of learning and evolution, adapting marketing and sales to customers based on the changing technologies available and partnering with them to create something revolutionary. I help partners build out custom Cloud products, identifying where to build, how to build it, and who their potential customers may be. My experience as a hands-on leader allows me to develop valuable correlations across the Microsoft landscape, helping inter-related programs and partners find the leading-edge Cloud-based resources they seek to benefit their business and scale their IoT solution.
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Raman Kalyan
Director Product Marketing, Microsoft 365 Security of Microsoft
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Adam Baron
Director of Product Marketing of Microsoft
Directory for Microsoft 365 Security including Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Azure ATP, Office 365 ATP, Defender ATP, Microsoft Cloud App Security, and Azure Information Protection
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Harish G. Iyer
Managing Director, Datacenter Transformation of Microsoft
Harish is a global business leader passionate about helping partners transform their cloud businesses. His charter as Managing Director for Partner DC Transformation at Microsoft’s OCP organization, is to help partners optimize their own Datacenters and use Azure as their primary Datacenter to achieve more for themselves and mutual customers.
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Chris Roy
Senior Director, Customer Acquisition Lead for WW Corporate Accounts of Microsoft
Chris Roy is the Senior Director that focuses on our WW customer acquisition strategy and programs to help enable mid-size (Corporate) customers to take advantage of the incredible power, flexibility, productivity and scale of the Microsoft Clouds – Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365. In this role, he has the responsibility to help set the acquisition and programs strategy to maximize the technical and economic value provided by Microsoft’s platforms. I spend time with customers to understand where Microsoft has gaps in our existing acquisition strategy to realize the value of moving to the cloud and work across different Microsoft teams (sales, partners, marketing, etc) to address these concerns & challenges. This role allows me to influences new programs, events and sales incentives to ensure that Microsoft continues to grow our cloud based business.
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Jenny Leahy
Director of Advertising for Social and Media Partnerships Creative of Microsoft
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Colin Masson
Global Industry Marketing Director and Manufacturing of Microsoft
Colin has over 25 years of experience evaluating, implementing and selling manufacturing, enterprise and supply chain software. At Microsoft, he is focused on ‘Digital Transformation’, and the ‘Servitization’ of manufacturing leveraging IoT ‘Connected Field Service’ and IoT and Big Compute enabled ‘Connected Product Innovation’. Prior to Microsoft, Colin spent five years researching and advising the global Fortune 500 on manufacturing and supply chain best practices, and on designing software architectures that support demand-driven supply networks and demand-driven manufacturing. Strategic advisor to major ERP companies and automation vendors on their manufacturing software architectures, product development roadmaps, product marketing, partnering and acquisitions. Evangelist of Manufacturing 2.0 that…”capitalizes on service-based and collaboration-based architectures to let manufacturers dynamically reconfigure sensor and mobile-worker-enabled supply networks to make products right first time and on demand”.
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Dina Apostolou
Global Director Product Marketing, Business Applications of Microsoft
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Oliver Schulz
Director Global Partner Development of Microsoft
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Jose Gomez Cueto
Director – SMB Partners Go To Market – US Subsidiary of Microsoft
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Katy Meyer
Director, Gaming For Everyone, Xbox of Microsoft
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Kirsten Edmondson Wolfe
Senior Director, Microsoft AppSource Product Marketing of Microsoft
Responsible for building market awareness, driving demand generation, and growing market share for Microsoft AppSource.
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Hani Rachidi
Director, Marketing of Microsoft
Hani Rachidi is the Director of Commercial Licensing Programs in the Cloud Marketing organization. His team is responsible for the overall licensing and monetization of commercial offerings to Partners and Customers, globally. Hani has more than 17 years of experience in the technology industry, holding several leadership roles within Microsoft across Engineering and Marketing.
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Karen Fassio
Director, One Commercial Partner group of Microsoft
Karen leads the strategy for digital marketing engagement that serves the global Microsoft partner ecosystem. Karen has held multiple marketing roles over her 20 years at Microsoft including work in global technical readiness, licensing, sales excellence, audience and channel marketing. Karen also leads OCP Change Management and Microsoft’s Channel Inclusion strategy. She is also co-founder and steering chair of Women In Cloud, a community-centered organization focused on helping female entrepreneurs lead and grow their business in the cloud.
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Ed Essey
Director of Intrapreneurship and Incubation of Microsoft
Ed Essey helps intrapreneurs incubate new businesses in the Microsoft Garage. An MIT grad, serial founder, and veteran product guy, he’s passionate about technology, creating great cultures, and innovating through experimentation. During his engineering career, he’s researched AI, developed intelligent agent-based systems, and democratized parallel computing. He has led company-wide change management programs in innovation, design-thinking, and agile methodologies that have helped over 25,000 employees earn raving fans for their products. He founded the Garage experimental outlet that has delivered nearly 100 new and exciting projects to users. Ed practices mindfulness to bring his most courageous and caring self to every connection. He champions wise technology, because the best products cannot stop at intelligence, they need wisdom. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
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Jenn Roth
Director and Global Industry Marketing Healthcare – Microsoft Cloud Group of Microsoft
Jenn Roth is Microsoft’s director global product marketing for healthcare. Jenn has over 20 years of direct healthcare industry experience and has held a wide range of global marketing strategy and product commercialization experience. She has held diverse roles in global branding, communications, and leadership positions within global medical device organizations. She is passionate about empowering healthcare organizations to reimagine the art of the possible.
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Juan Carlos Combariza
Director of Business Strategy, WW Corporate Accounts of Microsoft
During his 18 years at Microsoft, Juan Carlos has built ample experience in working with partner ecosystems, leading distribution channels, managing partner incentive programs, creating partner demand generation initiatives and defining partner investments across the customer purchase journey to achieve revenue targets across the world.
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