- Brandon Wood
Brandon Wood -- Web Developer, Amateur Photographer, Alaskan Grown - January 16, 2007 @ 5:20 am
- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Steve Ballmer
Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates . Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company.
- Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 "Forbes" ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company)and chairman of Charter Communications.
- 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.
- Craig Mundie
Craig Mundie Image Gallery: A collection of images of Microsoft Chief … A collection of images of Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie . … Angeles: Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie …
- Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser (born ca. 1963), is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, Helix, among other products and services. Before RealNetworks, he became a millionaire by working for Microsoft for 10 years. Glaser is a graduate of Yale University with a BA and an MA degrees in Economics and a BS degree in Computer Science. Glaser was the 22nd largest individual donor to 527 groups in the 2004 US election, …
- Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc.(DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept. He also co-hosted the PBS TV show "The Computer Chronicles".
- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
(born November 7, 1927) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to the multi-billion dollar video game company that it is today. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, …
- 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".
- Tim Paterson
Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of the popular MS-DOS operating system. Educated at the University of Washington, Paterson worked as a repair technician for a computer store in Seattle, Washington. After he graduated "magna cum laude" in June 1978, he went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer.
- James Allchin
James Edward Allchin (born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1951) is a former executive at Microsoft, where he was responsible for leading the development of a number of Microsoft's operating systems, streaming media products and Internet services. He worked for Microsoft for over 16 years before retiring in early 2007, on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers.
- Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- William H. Gates Sr.
William Henry Gates, Sr. (born William Henry Gates III on November 30, 1925) is a retired American attorney and philanthropist who is the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- 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.
- Kevin Calabro
Kevin Calabro is an American play-by-play announcer for the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named him "Sportscaster of the Year" for the state of Washington in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2006Η. Calabro is a graduate of Ben Davis High School (1974) calling games during high school on WBDG, 90.9 FM. He graduated from Butler University (1978).
- Brian Schmidt
Brian L. Schmidt is a music composer for various video games and pinball games. Schmidt is also the creator of the BSMT2000 audio DSP, which is used in various pinball games. Currently, he is the program manager of the Audio and Voice Technologies division at Microsoft.
- Edward Felten
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. But in court, Microsoft adroitly demonstrated that, the way its software is written, Internet Explorer shows up unexpectedly now and then -- no matter how well the program is hidden -- backing its contention that the browser is integral to the operating system.
- Mary Maxwell Gates
Mary Maxwell Gates served 18 years (1975-1993) on the University of Washington board of regents. She was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM's CEO, John Akers, and the first woman on the First Interstate Bank of Washington's board of directors. Mary's son Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft.
- 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.
- Eileen Gunn
Eileen Gunn (b. June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired in part by a friendship with Avram Davidson, won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Two other stories were nominated for the Hugo Award: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" (in 1989) and "Computer Friendly" (1990).
- Scott Oki
Scott Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations. Oki also played a crucial role in Microsoft's rapid domestic growth during the 1980s. Born to a Japanese-American family, Oki attended the University of Washington, but left after 18 months to join the Air Force. While in the service he took courses at the University of Colorado.
- Zack Hudgins
Zack Hudgins is the State Representative for Washington State's 11th Legislative District, Position 1. Hudgins worked at Amazon.com as a project manager and program manager with Microsoft, before coming to the Legislature. His background includes several years as a campaign manager for various Democratic Congressional candidates. His District includes Renton, Tukwila and South Seattle.
- Gary Kimura
Gary Dean Kimura is a Professor for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and a software developer who worked for Microsoft. Born in 1956, he was brought up in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from University of Washington in 1984 with a doctorate in computing science. After graduating he went to work for DEC in Seattle for Dave Cutler. On 7 November 1988, he moved with the majority of Cutler's team to Microsoft, …
- 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 Groom
- Angie Louise
ANGIE LOUISE received her BA in Rhetoric (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, winning a Quinn Fellowship for her writing portfolio, an Academy of American Poets Prize for her poetry, high departmental distinction, a Pape Award for critical scholarship, and two Trelease Fiction Awards for her short fiction.
- Dave McClure
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo.
- Martin Buhr
Tall ( 6'5" ). Moved to Seattle in Nov 03 from San Francisco. I'm spending a lot of time with Rufus, my Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy (check out my.
- Tim Aidlin
- Henry Chou
Henry is a skilled general manager with expertise in online product strategy, product management and marketing.
- Tara Brown
Born and raised in Langley, a town outside of Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Has been residing in the USA and working for Microsoft for the past 7 years. Currently a Senior Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Office Live. Father owns a Fire Investigation company in B.C. and mother is a high school teacher and counsellor in northern B.C. Tara has a Bachelor of Science in Technology Management from BCIT. Wow, I sound like a robot. For fun I like stroking people's egos.
- Dawn Wright
- 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 . . .
- Eric Picard
Eric Picard is the director of advertising strategy and emerging media planning at Microsoft. In his role, he helps set corporate-level strategy for how Microsoft approaches advertising from a business and technology standpoint. His team manages long-term advertising platform and product strategy, emerging media strategy and planning for incubation and research teams and designs next generation advertising products.
- Bjorn Levidow
I'm a reformed nerd who has passed through the acquisitive phase of life and is now focused on family, friends and experiencing life to its fullest. Travel, with and without my kids, is high on my list. My friends have called me "the worldâs nicest guy", a "strong personality", âwicked smartâ and a "Paladin". I like doing my job well, but I keep it from consuming me when I'm not there. I make time to volunteer in my kids classrooms.
- 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