Sean O’Driscoll first joined Microsoft Corporation in 1992 as part of the worldwide sales organization. During his first several years in the company, he held several positions responsible for the recruitment, development and engagement of Microsoft Partners. As part of these responsibilities, Sean was accountable for developing business alliances with many of our largest Independent Software Venders, including Great Plains Software, Siebel Systems and Computer Associates to name a few. In 1998, Sean joined Microsoft’s professional services organization and helped establish our first support and consulting business focused on servicing our global ISV, System Integration, and OEM partners. In January, 2003 he re-joined Product Support Services as worldwide Director of MVP and Technical Communities. In this capacity, Sean is responsible specifically for leading the worldwide MVP program and supporting infrastructure designed to award and recognize amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Sean graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon with degrees in Business Administration and Philosophy and now lives just outside Seattle, Washington with his wife Kari, and two daughters, Erin and Lauren.

Cally Ko is Regional Director of Technical Communities and MVP, Asia Pacific and Greater China. Cally’s team focuses on developing and managing superior online/offline technical communities, and responding to the vast users of Microsoft technical communities by highly interacting with these communities and MVPs. There have been hundreds of communities and nearly 600 "Most Valuable Professionals" (MVP) selected in the Asia Pacific and Greater China. The MVP plan has been carried out globally for more than a decade. The MVP Program is focused on our relationships to and with customers via online and offline communities. The program celebrates our best, most active customers who have demonstrated a technical passion and willingness to share their expertise with others. "Microsoft Technical Communities" represents Microsoft's realization to provide its customers with the largest investment and optimum services, which provides opportunities to interact with Microsoft employees, experts, and your peers in order to share knowledge and news about Microsoft products and related technologies.

Leading the Microsoft Community and MVP teams in the Asia Pacific and Greater China Group, with providing the best technical communities as well as product support services for customers to continually maintain high customer satisfaction more than VSAT 90% Cally Ko joined Microsoft in 1993 and has held a variety of positions successively as a senior system support engineer for, Windows, Office, Office Visual Basic Application, SQL Server and developer tools (Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro), Presale (Technical Specialist) for Windows NT Server 4.0, Global TAM for Intel, HP,TOYOTA Motor, ING Life Insurance etc Premier Enterprise customers, Department Manager of Microsoft Business Application Severs, Developer tools and Platform Severs, Director of Product Support Services Global Technical Support Center (PSS GTSC) and Customer Services. Her rich technical support experience has enabled her to acquire the remarkable honor of getting Bill Gates Chairman Award. With her leadership, the Support Professionals and the Rapid Response Engineer teams in Customer Service and Support have been providing the best product support, system support and on-site technical services for customers to continually maintain high customer satisfaction.

As the Chairman for Microsoft India, Ravi Venkatesan is directly responsible for Microsoft’s marketing, sales, operational and business development efforts in India. He provides a single point of leadership for Microsoft India, in partnership with the leaders of Microsoft’s other business units, playing an integral role in defining Microsoft’s relationship with policy makers, customers and business partners.

Ravi provides strategic direction to Microsoft’s four distinct business units in India; primarily the Sales and Marketing Subsidiary; Microsoft’s Indian Business Unit IT Development Center and the India Development Center in Hyderabad and the Global Support Centre in Bangalore. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ravi worked for over seven years with Cummins Inc, a US-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of engines and related technologies. He served as Vice President and Managing Director for Cummins India, Chairman of Cummins India Limited and Managing Director of Tata Cummins Limited, a joint venture between Cummins Inc. and Tata Motors.

Ravi earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, his MS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1986 and his MBA from Harvard University in 1992 where he was a Baker Scholar. Ravi was awarded Purdue University's Outstanding Industrial Engineer award for the year 2000 and the Distinguished Alumnus award for 2003 by the Indian Institute of Technology.

Ravi is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry and a member of the Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is also a Director on the Board of Thermax Ltd. He has contributed frequently to the Harvard Business Review including "Cummins Engine Flexes its Factories", "Strategic Sourcing -to Make or Not to Make" and "The Strategy that Wouldn't Travel."