Updated: May 6, 2008

As corporate vice president for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp., Peter Neupert is responsible for developing and driving the company's product and services strategy for health around the globe. Working with Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, Neupert identifies market opportunities and investments where Microsoft can provide disruptive technology innovations that empower users and enable transformation.

In his position leading the Health Solutions Group, Neupert uses software to address business and clinical productivity issues across enterprise and research organizations with the Microsoft Amalga family of products, as well as the personal health needs of the individual consumer through Microsoft HealthVault.

Before rejoining Microsoft, Neupert served as president and chief executive officer of Drugstore.com Inc. from July 1998 to April 2001, and continued as chairman of the board of directors through September 2004. Neupert led Drugstore.com to become a top online retail store and information site for health, wellness, beauty and pharmacy products. In 2000, he received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for his work at Drugstore.com.

Neupert served in various capacities at Microsoft from 1987 to 1998. He started at Microsoft as the director of operating systems responsible for shipping OS/2, and later was responsible for MSNBC as vice president of News and Publishing for the interactive media group.

Neupert served on President Bush's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 2003 to 2005. On that committee, he co-chaired the Health Information Technology subcommittee and helped drive the report "Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology," published in June 2004 by PITAC. He is an active member of the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine and sits on the Pacific Health Summit Advisory Board, as well as the board of GlobalScholar.com. Neupert holds a master's degree in business administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a bachelor's degree from Colorado College.

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