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As corporate vice president of the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft Corp., Sanjay Parthasarathy’s focus is on evangelism of the Microsoft® platform to developers, IT professionals and partners. His team also manages Microsoft’s relationships with key ISV partners, including SAP AG, Siebel Systems Inc. and Dassault Systems.
Most recently, Parthasarathy was general manager of Worldwide Customer Systems, a role which included responsibility for www.microsoft.com, at the time the world’s fourth largest Web site, and overseeing the IT infrastructure for Microsoft’s sales and marketing organizations.
Before that, Parthasarathy was the regional director of Microsoft’s South Asia Region, responsible for Microsoft’s business in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan. Before managing the South Asia Region, Parthasarathy was product unit manager of Internet Security Products.
Parthasarathy has been with Microsoft since 1990 and has served in a number of other roles as well, including director of public network marketing and product manager for multimedia technologies. Parthasarathy joined Microsoft as product manager in the Windows® multimedia group in August 1990.
Parthasarathy has a master’s degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., a master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Anna University in Madras, India. | 