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Rajiv Kumar is the Managing Director, Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) and Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices (E+D) India Group.

Rajiv started his career at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer 27 years ago. Having worked with several product groups in the compiler and server space in the initial years, Rajiv rose through the ranks from being a developer in the Visual Basic team to the Development Manager in BizTalk, and subsequently the Product Unit Manager for Content Management Server team.

Rajiv moved to IDC 15 years ago to start the Dynamics CRM and Office product development team. He started with 10-member team in 2004, supporting Dynamics CRM, that has grown to 2500+ today and is now called the E+D India team. Rajiv’s team also led the incubation and launch of Kaizala from India and today, the enterprise chat-app is globally available in 40 languages across 180 countries.

Rajiv’s vision 2025 for IDC is to create a world class development center and be the source of innovation for the next billion users and help Microsoft achieve its mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Rajiv holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin.

Outside of work, Rajiv has a keen interest in spirituality and is a fitness-enthusiast who practices Yoga and cycles every day. He plays the Tabla and loves to travel with his daughters Eshita and Sneha, and wife Rekha.

Sundar Srinivasan leads the AI team at Microsoft India Development Center. He and his team work on technologies spanning search engines, Cortana (Microsoft’s digital personal assistant) and other AI services. Sundar has a wide range of experiences from building consumer products, cloud services at scale and building intelligent services using AI. He continues to learn from his experiences as a developer, product manager and as an organization leader. He is a firm believer that AI amplifies human ingenuity and that AI will help humans achieve a lot more in our future.

Sundeep Kunchala brings over 20 years of composite experience in software product architecture and deployments, spanning several functions in the IT Industry. His mainstay being Data Warehousing, Data Management and Business Intelligence with industry experience in semiconductors, high-tech manufacturing, B2B, and financial institutions. Sundeep has repeatedly proven his ability to lead through diverse and challenging situations and has an excellent track record of accomplishments that include the turnaround of chaotic and struggling operations in the past. Creating a vision that results in business value and leading the team through the change are the best aspects of Sundeep's leadership.

Vishwa leads the Bings Ads Marketplace team, his team is responsible for Bing monetization for INTL markets where they extensively use Machine learning algorithms for matching user queries to the relevant ads. He started his career as a Software developer working on telephony switches in Siemens and Ericsson. He joined Microsoft in April 1999 and has previously worked on various products including Windows Networking, Web Services protocols, Server Virtualization, etc.

His qualification includes a bachelor’s in Electronics and Communications from University of Mysore. Vishwa lives in Bangalore with his wife and daughters. His passions outside of work includes reading, running and playing squash.

Deepak leads the Product Design and Research teams across products in the Experience & Devices (E+D) division at Microsoft India. Deepak’s team helped define the enquiry around ‘What is productivity for billions of mobile-only users’ which has led to product innovations like Kaizala and Microsoft Office – mobile products that helps businesses connect with their value chain to collaborate and complete business workflows. Deepak was also responsible for designing and defining the Ribbon interface for Microsoft Office. He was also the driver for the Microsoft centre for Information work which reimagined the future of productivity and won the IDSA gold reward in 2003.

Deepak has worked at Google leading User Experience teams in India and Seattle. He was also the Chief Product and Customer officer at Myntra where he led teams across multiple functions.

Deepak completed his B.Arch. from REC Trichy, his M.Arch on a fellowship and MFA from The Ohio State University. He loves sports of any kind and lives in Hyderabad with his wife Ashwini and 2 sons Adhvai & Prathyai.

Sanjay Anand is a Partner Director Software Engineering in Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) focused on the Visual Studio family of developer productivity offerings.

In a previous stint, he was the Managing Director of Google Engineering in India. Prior to Google, Sanjay was at Microsoft for over 18 years in various Engineering and General Management roles, notably founding the Microsoft India Development Center at Bangalore, focused on online advertising.

Sanjay holds a Masters (CS) from Arizona State University and a BTech (CS) from BITS, Pilani, India. He was recently featured among the top 50 graduates from BITS Pilani as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations.

Binu Raj is a Partner Director at Microsoft and leads Engineering for Microsoft Teams and Insights in Bangalore.

An industry veteran with a history of building scalable platforms, he has broad experience in leading high performing teams building distributed systems, across start-ups and large enterprises. He has, in the past led Microsoft Outlook, M365 cloud platform (Substrate) and products such as MileIQ and the Bing advertising platform. Prior to Microsoft, Binu worked with Yahoo, where his stint involved various cloud platforms like Hadoop, the Yahoo IaaS, and distributed data processing.

Binu has a Master’s in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science.

Charu is the site leader for the growing Cloud + AI organization at IDC and an engineering leader for Azure, responsible for the Compute engineering organization. During her near-thirty-year career at Microsoft in the US and in India, Charu has demonstrated engineering excellence, innovation, and strong organization leadership over multiple roles at the organization. She has delivered innovation in many areas including database replication, server virtualization, data protection, disaster recovery, migration, modernization and hybrid management.

Charu is currently responsible for exploring new technology directions, articulating a long-term technical vision, developing effective engineering processes, partnering with key stakeholders to build a strong internal and external brand and recruiting, mentoring, and growing great talent.

Charu is passionate and intentional about creating a culture of inclusion and has led numerous efforts to attract, develop, and retain diverse talent at Microsoft. Charu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Anna University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Charu is a Board member on the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Technology and helped create the founding vision for CII’s Centre of Excellence on Digital Transformation. Charu has provided the founding vision of the Microsoft WISE Mentoring Program where tech leaders at Microsoft volunteer to mentor women in computer science and software engineering.

Sandeep is the Director for Product, operations, and strategy for Microsoft India Development Center; He currently leads the frontier of growth for Microsoft in the Emerging Market. He is passionate about technology and committed to creating a world class development center and being the source of innovation for the next billion users in helping achieve Microsoft’s mission to empower every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Sandeep's professional stint started in 1998 at the IIT Bombay campus as a sole techie founding member of shaadi.com, a matrimonial service, touted as one of India's biggest e-commerce successes till date.

His penchant for serial entrepreneurship, has led him to successfully exit 3 start-ups, and participate in 8+ start-up journeys as co-innovator, mentor, and investor. During this journey, he has lead product for Microsoft's Billion-dollar product portfolios such as SharePoint, Office 365, Office, and Visio.

Most recently, Sandeep led the scaled growth of IDC partnering with a full set of business functions and global development centers.

Sandeep started at Microsoft in 2005 and has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Sandeep lives in Hyderabad with his wife and daughters; and loves travelling, meditation and coding.

Vijay heads Product Management for Azure Commerce + Ecosystem focusing on Partner, Seller & Marketplace Experiences. His team is primarily responsible for the partner & customer growth on Microsoft Azure Platform. In his tenure at Microsoft, Vijay has worked across a wide variety of products and services ranging from Online Services, Windows Server, Visual Studio & Microsoft Azure in various capacities - engineering, product management & strategy roles. Vijay is very passionate about customer focused innovation & cultural transformation in organizations.

Vijay spends a lot of time with customers, partners & developers, drawing insights from customer support & product telemetry, presenting at conferences and encourage a constant feedback loop between Microsoft's customers, partners, and engineering team. Vijay is a trained classical singer & continues to learn music and is an avid cricket enthusiast.

Finance leader with 19+ years’ work experience covering large emerging markets and multi-national region environment across Asia Pacific with IT software & services (Cloud focus), Consumer Durables and Telecom industry.

Diversified exposure & proven track record in various finance streams including Commercial & Sales Finance, P&L Management, Revenue Planning & Analysis, Controllership, Treasury and Working Capital Management.

Strong expertise in Business Partnership, Organization transformation & landing of new models, Leadership & People Management & working with cross functional teams to solve business issues, drive growth and change management.

Vijay heads the Engineering team at Azure, Microsoft. He has more than three decades of work experience. Vijay has a Masters in Industrial Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (now Chennai).

Deepak leads engineering teams for three areas for E+D - M365 Core services: SCM, CSE and M365 Growth (Emerging Market / Kaizala).

Deepak joined Microsoft in 2004 and has been engaged in various mobile and cloud initiatives in India. Starting with Windows Phone Office applications, he led the team with Office on Android which has now more than a billion footprint and then incubated Kaizala which has become the first product inside Microsoft to graduate from Garage offering to become part of the O365 SKU. Recently he is building, and leading teams focused on core backend services for Exchange, Skype, Teams, Special/Sovereign Cloud, Substrate Intelligence Platform, Customer Success Engineering, End Point Security, Microsoft Compliance solutions and Emerging market solutions. Prior to Microsoft, Deepak worked for companies like Geometric Software, SolidWorks, and Polaroid.

Deepak is an alumnus from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He lives with his wife, two daughters and a canine daughter in Hyderabad. He loves to travel and to read.

Aloka leads several product teams working on M365 business applications and modern life and education across Noida and Hyderabad, which include Excel Web, Web Experience and Service Platform, Fluid collaboration framework, Stream, EDU, Whiteboard and Flipgrid.

Aloka joined Microsoft in 2017 and has led the Office Lens and Excel Web team at IDC as a Group Engineering Manager before taking on a Director role in 2020. Before joining Microsoft, she has had a wide range of experience over a span of 20 years from EDA tools to multimedia applications, consumer electronic device, video streaming and co-founding a startup in video calling space.

Aloka is passionate about technology and pride and depth in engineering products and solution. She cares deeply about building high performing, collaborative teams with an open and respectful environment.

Aditi has close to 20 years of experience working with large US Companies and top tier law firms in India. She is currently the CELA Commercial and Developer Lead for Microsoft India. Aditi supports the product counselling and sales and marketing business where core responsibilities apart include streamlining processes, negotiating complex and strategic deals, identifying privacy issues, regulatory advice, and working with the senior leadership of Microsoft India to unblock legal challenges.

She is active on many legal forums and part of regular industry workshops.

PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY LEADER - In my 20-year technology career I have developed a reputation for deep knowledge of technology, business acumen, strategic thinking, and proven track record for managing scale, taking an idea from vision to implementation and driving complex change.

I have experience in all aspects of technology including Social, Mobile, Analytics (BI & Big Data), Cloud and Package Implementation (Oracle/ SAP). Career highlights include:

CHIEF OF STAFF FOR STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE SERVICES IT, MICROSOFT

This is my current role where I lead strategic business initiatives and drive product and operational excellence, agility, and customer focus for multi-discipline organization with annual budget of $250M and 1500+ staff.

Responsibilities encompass strategy, investment, portfolio planning, business operations, budgets, operational excellence, and change management.

KEY LEADERSHIP ROLES WITH MICROSOFT & GENERAL ELECTRIC INDIA CENTERS in packaged and customer software development. Microsoft IT India – Driving innovation and playing a key role in the success of the largest operation of Microsoft outside of the US; collaborating with constituents globally and consistently delivering on commitments.

General Electric’s Center of Excellence India – Developing and executing strategy of India 2 India (I2I) outsourcing model and implementing Oracle Apps in record time, with some being cited as case studies of rapid deployment; Graduate of GE’s prestigious EIMP – Experience Information Management Program.

INSPIRING TEAMS TO SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS & ACHIEVE EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS - I am a collaborative leader who inspires and leads teams to peak performance, pushes the envelope to stay on the leading edge of the technology landscape and champions programs that promote diversity and inclusion.

Additionally, I developed strategy for a leading publishing company that evolved into a startup company where I serve as an advisor.

Experienced Senior Human Resources Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Succession Planning, Recruiting, Human Resources, Workforce Planning, and Performance Management.