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As corporate vice president of Exchange at Microsoft, David Thompson is responsible for the Exchange Products and Hosted Services. The Exchange products and services are the e-mail and calendaring members of the Unified Communications portfolio of products and services. Thompson goes out of his way to meet with groups outside Microsoft to evangelize the company’s products and vision. By his very nature, he is passionate about working with customers and partners to build world-class products that help people do their jobs better and more easily.
Thompson joined Microsoft in 1990. He initially led a development group in the Network Business Unit, working on the LAN Manager product. He later moved to the Windows NT team and formed the Networking Group for Windows NT, eventually becoming the general manager of Distributed Systems. He has been responsible for a variety of distributed system technologies, including Active Directory and Windows Security. In April 2000 he became the vice president for the Windows Server Product Group, assuming responsibility for the Windows 2000 Server product line. In all, he led major portions of the development of seven versions of Windows NT and the Windows operating system, including Windows Server 2003, before assuming responsibility for Exchange.
Before coming to Microsoft, Thompson worked for Digital Equipment Corp. on the first VAX Clusters and at Concord Communications as director of software development.
A New Jersey native, he holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from Cornell University.
He is married, with two grown children. An active outdoorsman, he skis, snowboards, bicycles and hikes. | 