Anil Nori is a Distinguished Engineer working in the SQL Server group at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience in building complex database and eBusiness systems. He is currently driving initiatives in data platform architecture, WinFS, database manageability, and mobile and embedded database technologies.

Before coming to Microsoft, he was with Oracle as a database server architect for Oracle8 and Oracle8i database releases. At Oracle, he headed the efforts in Oracle object-relational and extensible technology, Internet and multi-media DBMS development, and XML technology.

Nori also worked as a Database Architect for DEC database products, where he was involved in the development of centralized and distributed DBMS products.

Nori co-founded Asera Inc., which built eBusiness platform, tools and solutions in order management and supply chain.

He is actively involved in the database research community, and has published papers at ICDE, SIGMOD and VLDB conferences. Nori holds over dozen patents in database technology.