Azure Accelerator Mentor: Charlie Kindel Founder, BizLogr, Inc.

Charlie Kindel is building a Seattle startup doing innovative things where space and time collide. He is an active angel investor, mentor and advisor in the Seattle startup community. Charlie was previously the GM for the Windows Phone 7 app platform at Microsoft. During his 21 year tenure at Microsoft, Charlie built a broad range of products and technologies ranging from ActiveX and Internet Explorer 3 to Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and Windows Phone 7. He started his first software company while in high school in 1983 and built some of the earliest shareware apps for Windows. He is passionate about customer focus, lean methods, going deep technically, soccer, and cars. He lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife of 21 years and two teenage kids. Read his musings about startups, technology, and other random things on his blog.

Follow @ckindel