As corporate vice president for the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft Corp., Robert Wahbe leads the team responsible for Microsoft’s service-oriented architecture and Web services platform. His key product responsibilities include Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows Server Active Directory, Microsoft Certificate Lifecycle Manager, and the wide array of distributed system technologies available in Windows and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. Through these efforts, Wahbe leads the Connected Systems Division’s efforts to make it substantially easier to build, deploy and manage distributed applications.
Since joining Microsoft in 1996, Wahbe has served in a number of product development roles with a focus on enterprise development tools in Visual Studio. In 2000 he co-founded the team chartered to deliver Web services and the Windows Communication Foundation; out of this grew the Connected Systems Division.
Before joining Microsoft, Wahbe was co-founder of Colusa Software Inc., a privately held software company acquired by Microsoft in 1996. Wahbe graduated in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley. |