Judson Althoff — Executive Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Business at Microsoft

Mr. Judson Althoff serves as an Executive Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Business at Microsoft Corporation and served as its Corporate Vice President and President of North America Sales & Marketing since March 29, 2013. He leads Microsoft's commercial business strategy, including enterprise, public sector, small and mid-market, services, developers and partners. Mr. Althoff served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances, Channels and Embedded Sales at Oracle Corporation and also served as its Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances & Channels. Mr. Althoff was responsible for the ongoing development and execution of Oracle's Alliances and Channels programs and strategies, partner revenue generating business initiatives, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program and the models for managing all of Oracle's over 22,000 Alliance and Channel partners. Prior to this role, Mr. Althoff was responsible for marketing, sales and technical relationships with Oracle's strategic platform and distribution partners and served as head of Oracle's Technology Channel Program Office. In this position, he developed technology and applications initiatives and go-to-market programs with Oracle's top partners targeting mid-sized businesses and these programs have become some of the fastest growing business units within Oracle. Before that, Mr. Althoff was Director of E-Business Solutions at Oracle, where he led a team responsible for developing Oracle Corp., next generation of platform technologies and enterprise applications. He also helped to develop customer solutions in the areas of supply chain management, customer relationship management, data warehousing, as well as middleware and database technologies. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Althoff was an Area Business Development Manager and District Sales Manager for EMC Corporation. In this capacity, he was responsible for a team of direct and indirect sales staff in a five state region in the Midwestern United States. He has worked for Oracle for 14 years both in Chicago and Oracle's corporate headquarters in Redwood Shores, California. He has been a Director of Avanade Inc. since November 2016. Mr. Althoff holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.