- Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS Bandit, a popular .NET-based RSS reader he wrote on a whim. He is the son of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
- Ken Lobb
Ken Lobb is a video game designer. He worked for Nintendo in the early 1990s on such video games as "Donkey Kong Country" and "Great Greed", but his "masterpiece" was "GoldenEye 007" for the Nintendo 64, hailed as one of the best shooters of all time. The game included a gun (based on the Vz 61) named after him, the Klobb, short for Kenneth Lobb. This is widely considered the very worst gun in the game. He also worked on "Perfect Dark".
- Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991.
- Jay Bhatti
Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers.
- Brady Forrest
Brady Forrest is Chair for O'Reilly's Where 2.0 and Emerging Technology conferences. Additionally, he co-Chairs Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Berlin and NYC. Brady writes for O'Reilly Radar tracking changes in technology. He previously worked at Microsoft on Live Search (he came to Microsoft when it acquired MongoMusic). Brady lives in Seattle, where he builds cars for Burning Man and runs Ignite . You can track his web travels at Truffle Honey .
- David Feinleib
David invests in Internet-enabled companies at MDV. Prior to MDV, David ran a profitable online advertising business. He founded Centeris, a venture funded company providing interoperability software for mixed Windows and Linux environments. Before Centeris, David was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Partners. David holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Stanford.
- Karen Worstell
Microsoft; CISO; Feb 2005 - April 2006; Lead Microsoft's internal Information Security program: identity and access management, policy, governance, compliance strategy and monitoring, security engineering, IDS, technical investigations and forensics. AT&T Wireless; VP, IT Risk Management and CISO August 2003 - January 2005; Oversee 300+ senior directors, managers, analysts, project managers and consultants for delivery of improvements in company-wide security and risk . . .
- Bill Spencer
Bill Spencer is Senior Director of Business Development at Microsoft in the greater Seattle area.
- Tedd Riggs
Communications Satellite Engineer working in the International Telecommunications Satellite Field for over 25 years. Former Microsoft Windows CE MVP. Avid sailor of my 34 ft Bob Perry design Nordic sailboat "Phoenix" thru the San Juans. Computer Geek since the days of the Ohio Scientific and Osbourne days (yikes CPM..) now settled down in the great Northwest area enjoying life in the Redmond, WA area
- Jeff Teper
Jeff Teper , Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform Microsoft Jeff Teper , Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform Microsoft will deliver a keynote address on Wednesday, April 18 at 10:00 AM. As corporate vice president of the Office SharePoint Server Group at Microsoft, Teper is responsible for Office SharePoint Server and its portal, content management, search and line-of-business integration technologies.
- Pete Higgins
Pete Higgins has served as a director of HouseValues since April 2004. He is a founding partner of Second Avenue Partners, one of Seattle's most experienced teams providing management, strategy and capital to early stage companies. Prior to founding Second Avenue Partners, Mr. Higgins spent 16 years at Microsoft Corporation. Most notably, Mr. Higgins was a member of the Office of the President, reporting to CEO Bill Gates.
- Brad Goldberg
Brad Goldberg is General Manager of Microsoft's Windows Client Business Group. Prior to working at Microsoft, Goldberg was an associate at A.T. Kearney. Mr. Goldberg has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Zack Hudgins
Zack has been a member of the Legislature since December 2001. Before serving in office Zack worked at Amazon.com as a project manager, as a program manager at Excell Data Corporation on assignment at Microsoft, and has led seminars on democracy in Iraq, the Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan with the National Democratic Institute. Zack attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and now lives in Tukwila.
- Todd Holmdahl
Todd Holmdahl Todd Holmdahl , Corporate Vice President of the IEB Hardware and Technology at Microsoft Corporation, is responsible for the design, engineering, testing, and manufacturing of all Xbox consoles worldwide. In addition, Holmdahl is in charge of compliance and corporate citizenship related to all Microsoft hardware products. Holmdahl has played an instrumental role in growing the Xbox program.
- Ginny Hutchinson
Chief Marketing Officer who has successfully led companies through dramatic growth and rapid change in large and small corporate environments and has a track record and passion for achieving results. Ginny has CMO experience in both the telecom and technology sectors in the U.S. and Europe. Ginny is presently the CMO at Speakeasy, one of the leading, independent broadband voice and data companies in the U.S. She leads strategy and planning, product development, marketing communications, . . .
- Steve Chernyavskiy
- Chris Satchell
Chris Satchell , general manager of Microsoft's Game Development Group, has questioned whether the Nintendo Wii has got what it takes to keep gamers' interests in the long run.
- Joseph V. Debons
I am currently designing a scalable strategy analysis and improvement model which illustrates how Balanced Scorecarding, Strategy Mapping, Six Sigma, and Lean can be combined with Social Network Analysis to drive increased strategy execution, process quality, and profit.
- Jim Gemmell
Jim Gemmell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Internet Services Research Center . His current research focus is on personal lifetime storage, as architect of the MyLifeBits project and chair of the First and Second ACM Workshops on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experience (CARPE). Dr. Gemmell received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and his M. Math from the University of Waterloo.
- Steven Sinofsky
Steven Sinofsky is an employee of Microsoft. He "is the senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group — the user experience of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live services. The group is responsible for the development of Windows Vista technologies, including user interface, device support, graphics and media as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer; the group delivers Windows Live services experiences, including Windows Live Hotmail, …
- Tony Audino
Tony Audino founded the Microsoft Alumni Network in 1995, and currently serves as Chairman of both MSA and MSAGF. Audino joined Microsoft in 1987, holding several management positions over the next seven years. In his role as the Director of Marketing for MS-DOS, he had worldwide product management responsibility for this $600 million business.
- Nathan Burkhart
I'm a California native, newly transplanted into the fair city of Seattle. I have a love-hate relationship with most things technology-related, but in the end it pays the bills so I don't complain. I recently ended a committed relationship with.
- Tom Leung
Entrepreneurial executive with deep experience in most facets of technology management.
- Terry Hanold
Marketing and Business Development executive with experience in both enterprise and consumer software. My focus has been early-stage businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups, and new business initiatives inside larger companies (e.g. Microsoft and Amazon.com). My areas of expertise include defining market opportunity, developing the entry strategy (including funding), and building out the product definition, marketing infrastructure, and sales pipeline. As part of this process, I . . .
- Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister is Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He was previously Director of the School (1997-2004) and has held chairs at the University of New South Wales and the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen.
- Dima Suponau
- Ray Zambroski
An enthusiastic, results-driven leader with a bias for action and a passion for developing and building new software products, Ray Zambroski brings 14 years senior management experience in the creation, development, and marketing of emergent PC and web-based technologies. Zambroski spent seven years with Microsoft Corporation where he was instrumental in developing the company's worldwide value-added reseller channel, and built ISV partnerships contributing to Microsoft Windows, SQL . . .
- Alex Acero
Alex Acero , an area manager for Speech Technology, Natural Language, and Communication and Collaboration. Acero became a computer scientist and linguist after attending a demo fair where he was captivated by a computer system that helped deaf children learn to form words properly. Acero has been working ever since on viable speech technologies and devices, successfully transferring them to products and helping hundreds of thousands of users.
- Lena Moses
"Only a handful of companies understand that all successful business operations come down to 3 basic principles: People > Product > Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two." - Malcolm Forbes
- Roger Shanafelt
Roger Shanafelt , Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Myri o: Prior to joining Myrio Roger was in a wide variety of senior sales, business development and product marketing positions with such companies as Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), Exodus Communications, a Cable & Wireless Service, Excite@Home Corporation, and Qwest Communications.
- George Snelling
George Snelling joined Microsoft in 1992 as a software designer for Microsoft Access. He held various design and management roles at Microsoft including Group Program Manager, Office. With Matt Bellew and Mark Igra he co-founded Westside in 1999, chaired by Paul Maritz, where he was CEO. After BEA acquired Westside he served as Director, Engineering and Product Management, WebLogic Workshop. At LabKey George manages the business.
- Ben Zorn
- Fiona Robertson Remley
Fiona Robertson Remley VP Project Managment Fiona's expertise in process, workflow, negotiation, and all aspects of precise project management ensure the smooth delivery of Worktank's unique and complex projects. She has been in the business of effective creative facilitation for over 15 years, and honed her skills at some of Seattle's leading agencies and brand houses. Fiona began her career as a model agent, working at internationally recognized agencies in London and New York.
- Eric Aarrestad
Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing, is a senior business executive with over 18 years of marketing and business development experience in the software and services industry. Prior to joining WatchGuard, Aarrestad served as Director of Product Marketing and Worldwide Marketing for Microsoft in the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division. There he led the global product and business segment marketing strategy and execution from early stage start up to a $300M+ P&L business group.
- Chris Nodder
Chris Nodder is a User Experience Specialist with Nielsen Norman Group. He works with clients across Europe and the USA, large and small, in industries as diverse as financial services, health care, entertainment, e-commerce, telecommunications, government, intranets, and several highly specialized B2B sectors.
- Matt Cannard
Matt Cannard joined Widevine in March 2005 and is responsible for overseeing glo bal marketing and communications initiatives. Cannard brings over ten years of experience in product management, product marketing and corporate communications in the technology and telecommunications industries. Prior to Widevine, Cannard held a senior product marketing role at WatchGuard Technologies
- Jeff Pobst
Jeff Pobst Jeff Pobst (“How Video Games Get made: My Perspective”) Jeff Pobst , Founder and CEO, Hidden Path Entertainment Jeff has held roles as a game programmer, producer, operating officer, group leader for the Xbox/Xbox 360 platform teams, and is now CEO of Hidden Path Entertainment, an independent video game development company producing games for the major consoles and computing platforms.
- Peter Hussey
Peter Hussey first worked at IBM from 1983 to 1987 in technical sales. He joined Microsoft in 1989 where he led the program management team on the first two Microsoft-developed releases of SQL Server. Peter joined Westside as a partner in 1999, where he designed the security and data access layers of the Westside platform. He joined BEA after Westside was acquired as Director Product Management, WebLogic Workshop.
- Kristin Tolle
Kristin Tolle received her Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems from the University of Arizona while working as a Research Associate in the Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab. During that time she developed several applications ranging from an adaptive internet music matching agent to a pharmcodynamic/pharmacokinetic-based drug dosing application.
- Jana Carter