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Job Titles:

• Chief Human Resources Officer
• Executive Vice President
• Campaign Executive for the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship

As executive vice president and chief human resources officer, Amy Coleman is focused on empowering 220,000+ global employees to achieve Microsoft's mission. In her role, she is dedicated to making Microsoft an exceptional workplace for employees and fostering a culture that attracts and inspires the world's most passionate talent. Coleman previously served as corporate vice president of Microsoft's corporate functions HR team, overseeing HR, Corporate, External & Legal Affairs, Finance Business Development, Strategy & Ventures, Marketing Consumer Business, and the Office of the CEO. She also served as an executive lead for the Enterprise Crisis Management team and Microsoft's Work Environment policies. Prior to that, she held a variety of HR leadership roles during her 25 years as part of Microsoft's HR team. Coleman serves as a campaign executive for the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship, the first public-private scholarship program dedicated to building lasting pathways to secondary education and high-demand STEM and trade careers for all Washington students. Coleman holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A. in organizational psychology and human resources from Antioch University.

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer
• Executive Vice President
• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft

Amy Hood is the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Microsoft and is responsible for leading the company's worldwide finance organization, including accounting and reporting, acquisitions, business development and ventures, financial planning and analysis, global real estate, internal audit, investor relations, tax planning and treasury. Hood joined Microsoft in 2002 and became EVP and CFO in 2013. Through her tenure with the company, she has advanced global momentum in cloud and helped Microsoft and its customers drive growth through technological shifts, including the era of AI. She is deeply involved in the company's operations, as well as the strategy development and overall execution of the company's successful acquisitions of Activision Blizzard, LinkedIn and GitHub. She has been a strategic partner to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, propelling long-term financial growth, championing culture and driving corporate initiatives that have bolstered the company's broader ecosystem. She has also served on the board of directors of 3M since 2017. Hood earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University.

Job Titles:

• Fleet Manager

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• Partner
• Partner Network

Job Titles:

• President
• Vice Chair
• Microsoft 's Vice Chair and President

As Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith is responsible for spearheading the company's work and representing it publicly on a wide variety of critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental sustainability, human rights, digital safety, immigration, philanthropy, and products and business for non-profit customers. He leads a team of roughly 2,000 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals located in 54 countries and operating in more than 120 nations. In Smith's bestselling book, coauthored with Microsoft's Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, he urges the tech sector to assume more responsibility and calls for governments to move faster to address the challenges that new technologies are creating. In his podcast by the same name, Smith and his guests expand on the themes in the book, exploring potential solutions to the digital issues shaping the world today. The New York Times has called Smith "a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large" and The Australian Financial Review has described him as "one of the technology industry's most respected figures." He has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress and other governments on these key policy issues. Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, first spending three years in Paris leading the legal and corporate affairs team in Europe. In 2002, he was named Microsoft's general counsel and spent the following decade leading work to resolve the company's antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. Over the past decade, Smith has spearheaded the company's work to advance privacy protection for Microsoft customers and the rights of DREAMers and other immigrants, including bringing multiple lawsuits against the U.S. government on these issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. In 2014, Smith was named to the board of trustees of Princeton University, for which he continues to serve today. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors for the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. In 2024, he transitioned to board chair emeritus of the Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization he cofounded with Angelina Jolie in 2008, and served as its chair of the board of directors for 15 years. Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University, where he met his wife, Kathy. He earned his J.D. from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He can be followed on X and LinkedIn. His podcast, Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith, is available on all podcast platforms.

Job Titles:

• Chief Commercial Officer
• Executive Vice President
• Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Microsoft
• President of Microsoft North America

Judson Althoff is executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Microsoft. He is responsible for the sales strategy, execution and revenue growth of the company's commercial business, which spans enterprise, public sector, small and medium businesses, services, developer and partner communities in more than 120 regional and national subsidiaries globally. Althoff is passionate about co-innovating with customers to democratize and scale digital experiences across their organization - from the boardroom to the factory floor - and in the marketplace. Under his leadership, Microsoft has posted uninterrupted commercial cloud revenue growth, powered by close partnerships with customers that are driving business outcomes through digital transformation. Althoff joined the company in March 2013 as president of Microsoft North America. Earlier in his career, he spent multiple years in senior sales roles at Oracle and EMC. Althoff is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and serves on Ecolab's board as an independent director and a member of the Audit and Finance Committee. Originally from Ohio, Althoff has four kids and resides in Seattle with his wife. He can be followed on LinkedIn and X (@judsonalthoff).

Job Titles:

• Lead Independent Director
• Operating Partner at Clayton

Sandra (Sandi) E. Peterson joined the Microsoft board in December 2015, and is the lead independent director. Peterson is an operating partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a private investment firm. She works closely with the firm's investment team and corporate leaders to source and evaluate transactions as well as support portfolio company management teams as they execute their value creation plans. Previously, Peterson served as group worldwide chairman for Johnson & Johnson, where her portfolio included medical devices, consumer, global operating infrastructure, technology, supply chain and key strategic initiatives. Peterson had an extensive global career in healthcare, life sciences, consumer goods and consulting. From 2005 through 2012 she was chairman and CEO of Bayer CropScience AG in Germany and CEO of Bayer Medical Devices. Prior to that she worked for Medco Health Solutions Inc., formerly Merck-Medco, from 1999 to 2004. Peterson holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an MPA from Princeton University.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Chief Executive Officer
• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft

Satya Nadella is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. Before being named CEO in February 2014, Nadella held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company. Joining Microsoft in 1992, he quickly became known as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and businesses to transform some of Microsoft's biggest product offerings. Most recently, Nadella was executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group. In this role he led the transformation to the cloud infrastructure and services business, which outperformed the market and took share from competition. Previously, Nadella led R&D for the Online Services Division and was vice president of the Microsoft Business Division. Before joining Microsoft, Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems. Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington, with his family. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University, a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Nadella serves on the board of trustees to his alma mater the University of Chicago.