Rajiv Kumar is the General Manager for the Business and Office Team at MSIDC. He joined Microsoft
Redmond office in the year 1992 as a SDE in Visual Basic Complier team. He has worked on several
business and high profile products including Visual Basic, Ole Automation, Biztalk Server, Content
Management Server and Commerce server in the Redmond office before relocating to MSIDC Hyderabad in
the year 2004.
In the year 2001 Rajiv was appointed to drive the execution of acquisition and integration of nCompass
Labs. This acquisition resulted in Microsoft getting into the Content Mangement Server space (CMS) and
is believed to be very successful acquisition by Microsoft. Rajiv played a critical role in making the
nCompass acquisition successful. These product releases were highly successful as it consistently beat
the revenue goals.
Rajiv is credited with six patent awards and has filed four more patents recently.
On a personal facet, Rajiv received Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Roorkee and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin.
In spare time, Rajiv enjoys traveling and loves to spend time with his 2 young daughters Eshita and
Sneha and his wife Rekha.
Interested to know more about Rajiv? Here is link to the article published about Rajiv in
Seattle Times, a USA publication.