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Mario Carvajal Has Spent 17 Years Turning Technical Detail Into Corporate Direction
He arrived at AvePoint through engineering and stayed long enough to help explain its next era. Now Mario Carvajal works where product architecture, corporate strategy and the public story meet.
Nicholas Stamos Has Spent a Career Teaching Sensitive Files Some Manners
From clinical-trial software to Digital Guardian to eSHARE, the Tufts-trained engineer keeps returning to one stubborn question: how can important information move without slipping out of its owner’s control?
Vijay Krishna Built a Career Around the Second Copy
Before cloud backup became an industry, Vijay Krishna was selling storage in Japan. Now his company protects the working memory inside Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and a widening shelf of SaaS apps.
The Microsoft Executive Who Thinks Your Next Colleague Is Software
Jared Spataro spent two decades helping Office become a service and Teams become a workplace. Now he is selling a stranger idea - software will go beyond assisting the organization and join the org chart.
Dux Raymond Sy
Dux Raymond Sy is a technology executive at AvePoint, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a long-time Microsoft MVP who has spent more than two decades helping commercial, education, and public sector organizations navigate digital transformation. He is the author of 'SharePoint for Project Management,' the creator of the LinkedIn Learning course 'How to Build Your Personal Brand,' and host of the #ShiftHappens podcast. A sought-after keynote speaker, he has presented to more than 25,000 people at events worldwide including Microsoft Ignite and the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit.
Anuj Jalan
Anuj Jalan is the Vice President of Sales Marketing at Microsoft, based in Chandigarh, India. He has built his career across major technology and services firms, moving from process development at Genpact and customer support at Dell to senior sales and marketing leadership at one of the world's largest technology companies. With an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a background spanning recruitment, operations, and client engagement, Jalan represents the archetype of a career professional who climbed the ranks through diverse industry exposure in India's booming tech sector.
Bruno Lecoq
Bruno Lecoq is the French-born co-founder, CEO and Chief Information Security Officer of BEMO, a Redmond, Washington cybersecurity and compliance company built for small and mid-sized businesses living inside the Microsoft cloud. After roughly two decades at Microsoft - working across MS-DOS, Windows, Exchange, Office and the hardware supply chain before becoming a director of business processes - he left to fix a gap he kept seeing: real, affordable security for companies too small for an enterprise security team. Since 2010 BEMO has grown into a Microsoft Direct CSP and US Partner of the Year, a back-to-back Inc 5000 honoree, and the maker of a SaaS platform that automates Microsoft 365 security and compliance for over a thousand businesses.
Douglas Pearce
Douglas Pearce is Corporate Vice President of Product Management for M365 Copilot Growth at Microsoft, where he leads the strategy to bring AI-powered productivity tools to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Based in the Seattle area, he has spent over two decades at Microsoft, previously heading product management for Office Growth and Fundamentals before pivoting to spearhead the company's flagship AI copilot initiative across Microsoft 365.
Jacqueline Ramos
Jacqueline Ramos is a seasoned Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience, currently supporting the COO, CMO for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMA), and VP for Global Partner Solutions (GPS) in the EMEA region. Based in Dubai, UAE, she has built her Microsoft career from the ground up - starting as an Executive Assistant to the Gulf Services Director in 2008, rising through roles in business operations, and eventually becoming an executive-level administrator supporting some of the company's most senior regional leaders. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in the Philippines and has leveraged her technical grounding alongside exceptional organizational and leadership skills to become one of Microsoft's most trusted operational connectors across its vast Middle East and global operations.
Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in New Delhi, India. He leads marketing strategy and execution for one of the world's most valuable technology companies in one of its fastest-growing markets. Operating at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing, Sharma drives Microsoft's brand and commercial marketing efforts across India - a country Microsoft has identified as central to its global AI and cloud expansion strategy.
Raji Dani
Raji Dani is VP & Deputy CISO for Microsoft Business, overseeing cybersecurity across Microsoft's Customer & Partner, Finance, and Marketing divisions. With over 25 years in technology and product engineering, she joined Microsoft in 2006 and built her career through Office 365 security, identity and access management, and cloud security leadership. She is a recognized voice on securing customer support ecosystems and preventing lateral movement attacks, with published guidance and RSA Conference appearances to her name.
Takeshi Numoto
Takeshi Numoto is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, appointed in October 2023 after his predecessor Chris Capossela's 32-year tenure. A University of Tokyo law graduate and Stanford MBA, Numoto joined Microsoft in 1997 after serving as a trade negotiator for Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Over nearly three decades at Microsoft, he has been the architect behind the marketing strategies that powered the explosive growth of Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, and now leads all worldwide marketing for the company's AI-driven Copilot era — overseeing brand, advertising, product marketing, events, and communications globally.
Josh Lee
Josh Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Swit Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based enterprise Work OS that unifies team chat and task management into a single platform. A former English teacher from Korea who turned his frustration with fragmented collaboration tools into a $20M ARR business, Lee launched Swit in March 2019 with co-founder Max Lim. Today, over 40,000 teams across 184 countries use Swit, which has raised $85.8M in total funding including a $32.7M Series B in 2022. Lee has pioneered the 'Super Work' framework for AI-era collaboration and unveiled Swit Snap, an AI co-pilot, at Google Next 24 in April 2024.
Michael Gold
Michael Gold is the Chairman and CEO of Intermedia Intelligent Communications, a Sunnyvale-based AI-powered cloud communications company serving over 150,000 businesses through a network of 7,500 channel partners. Since co-leading Intermedia's acquisition in 2011, Gold has grown the company's revenues and profits more than 7x, transforming it from a hosted email provider into a comprehensive UCaaS and CCaaS platform. A Stanford MBA and electrical engineer by training, Gold is a veteran cloud services operator who previously founded Zlago, led Sphera (acquired by Parallels), and served as SVP at Qwest Communications. His signature strategy - selling through partners who resell under their own brands - has made Intermedia a quiet powerhouse behind some of the biggest names in business communications.
Abhishek Agrawal
Abhishek Agrawal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Material Security, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that pioneered zero-trust protection for cloud email and collaboration environments. A Princeton-trained engineer who attended college at 16 and later earned his MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar (top 5%), Agrawal co-founded Material Security in 2017 alongside former Dropbox colleagues Ryan Noon and Chris Park, inspired by the 2016 John Podesta email breach. Under his leadership, Material Security reached unicorn status ($1.1B valuation) after a $100M Series C in May 2022 led by Founders Fund, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, and Snowflake Ventures. The platform protects organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic, Reddit, Lyft, Roblox, and DoorDash against email-based threats and data loss in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
Dmitry Dontov
Dmitry Dontov is the CEO and co-founder of Spin.AI, a Palo Alto-based SaaS security platform that protects mission-critical cloud data across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Slack. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, two patents to his name, and $21.5M raised including a K1 Investment Management round in March 2026, Dontov has built a platform serving 1,500+ organizations across 100+ countries. A Forbes Business Council member, Young Entrepreneur Council contributor, and columnist for Dark Reading, he's positioned Spin.AI as a Forrester Wave Strong Performer in SaaS Security Posture Management.