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Mr. Satya Nadella has been the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation since February 4, 2014. Mr. Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and served leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across Microsoft for over 22 years. He served as Executive Vice President of Cloud & and

Mr. William Henry Gates, III, also known as Bill, co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 and serves as its Technology Advisor since February 4, 2014. Mr. Gates is also a Co-Founder of Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which he co-founded in November 2015. He served as the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation from January 2000 to June 2006 and its Chief Executive Officer from 1981 to January 2000. He also founded Corbis Corporation in 1989 and serves as its Chairman and Owner. He is the Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and serves as its Co-Chairman, where he shapes and approves foundation strategies, review results, advocates for the foundation's issues and helps set the overall direction of the organization. Mr. Gates is Chair of the Board at Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Previously, he served as the Chairman of the Board at Microsoft Corporation from 1981 to February 04, 2014. He has been a Director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. since 2005 and Non-Independent Director of Microsoft Corporation since 1981. He serves as Board Member of Kymeta Corporation. He serves as a Trustee of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Asset Trust. Previously, he served as a Director of ICOS Corporation from July 1990 to February 2005. In 1999, he wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways and his previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks. While at Harvard University, he developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. He attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School.

Mr. Christopher R. Jones, also known as Chris, has been Director of Healthcare NExT at Microsoft Corporation since October, 2015. Mr. Jones serves as Engineering Director for Microsoft Corporation, a position he has held since October 2015. Previously, from February 2000 to October 2015, he served as a Corporate Vice President in various business divisions at Microsoft, including OneDrive & SharePoint, Windows Services, and Windows, where he led the engineering teams for several Microsoft products, such as OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server, Outlook.com and other consumer services, and Windows XP. He joined Microsoft in August 1991, and held several program management and engineering roles prior to being named a Corporate Vice President. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Bush School. Mr. Jones holds a B.S. degree in mathematical and computational sciences from Stanford University.

Mr. Jean-Philippe Courtois serves as Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corporation and has been its President of Global Sales, Marketing and Operations since July 2016. Mr. Courtois served as the President of Microsoft International B.V., a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation since June 20, 2005. He served as the President of Microsoft AB. He also places a high priority on spreading the benefits of technology for economic and social development - creating ubiquitous access to technology, helping ensure Internet safety, supporting education and generating economic growth and opportunity. Mr. Courtois served as Senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation since July 2000. He served as the President of Microsoft Europe Middle East and Africa for Microsoft Corporation from July 2000 to March 2003. He leads sales, marketing and services for all regions outside the United States, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Japan, China, the Asia Pacific region, Latin America and emerging markets of Microsoft. His leadership reflects Microsoft's commitment to customers, industry partners and governments. During his 21 years at Microsoft Corp., Mr. Courtois has held several key leadership positions and was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft EMEA from March 2003 to June 2005. His role included leading worldwide business planning process for EMEA, improving customer satisfaction and enhancing regional integration. Mr. Courtois served as the President of Microsoft EMEA from 2000 to 2003 and as its Vice President of Worldwide Customer Marketing, based in Microsoft's U.S.A headquarters in Redmond, Wash from 1998 to 2000. Following Microsoft's reorganization in March 1999, a process that realigned Microsoft's divisions to focus on core customers, he launched Customer and Partner Satisfaction initiative and was instrumental in managing its strategic, global rollout. Before that, he served as Vice President of Microsoft Europe in 1997 and became General Manager for Microsoft France in 1994, following several promotions. Mr. Courtois joined Microsoft France in 1984 as a Channel Sales Representative. Before joining Microsoft, he spent 18 months as a Product Manager for Memsoft, a French accounting software company. He sits on the Advisory Council of the European Policy Centre and on European- American Industry Council (EAIC) and serves as a Board Member of CSR Europe. He served as the Co-Chairman of World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force. He also shares responsibility for Microsoft Corp.'s worldwide public sector team, directing the Microsoft Corporation's engagement with governments around the globe. Mr. Courtois is an Administrator for PlaNet Finance and the official representative of Microsoft at Institute Montaigne. He served as a Non-Executive Director of AstraZeneca plc from February 18, 2008 to December 1, 2016. He served as a Director of PlaNet Finance. Mr. Courtois graduated from Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Nice (CERAM) and obtained his DECS.

Ms. Margaret L. Johnson, also known as Peggy, has been an Executive Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft Corporation since August 5, 2014. Ms. Johnson is responsible for driving strategic business deals and partnerships across various industries with key customers, strategic innovation partners, OEMs, key accounts, third-party publishers and industry influencers. She joined Microsoft from QUALCOMM Incorporated, where she served as Executive Vice President of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and President of Global Market Development since January 2011. She was responsible for commercializing new business opportunities and developing strategic relationships for Qualcomm. She served as the President of MediaFLO Technologies. She served as an Executive Vice President of Americas & India at Qualcomm Inc. since January 2008. Ms. Johnson served as the President and Executive Vice President of Qualcomm Internet Services since July 2001 and MediaFLO Technologies at Qualcomm Inc. She served as Senior Vice President of QUALCOMM Incorporated until July 2001 and Executive Vice President January 2011 to October 2012. She served as a Senior Vice President of Sales at Qualcomm Consumer Products since April 2000. She started her career as a software engineer within Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions (QWBS) and worked her way up to vice president of technology. She joined Qualcomm Consumer Products in 1997 as Vice President of Business Development and was appointed Vice President of sales shortly thereafter. Prior to joining Qualcomm, she worked as an Engineer for General Electric's Military Electronics Division. She has been an Independent Director of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. since June 20, 2013. She has been a Trustee of The Paley Center for Media since October 2017. She serves as a Director of CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. She serves as a Director of Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. She represents the United States on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council. She has been recognized by multiple organizations, a few of which include, Women in Technology International ('2013 Hall of Fame Award'), STEM ('100 Women Leaders in STEM, 2012'), Athena ('2011 Pinnacle Awards') and Fierce Wireless ('Most Influential Women in Wireless, 2011'). Ms. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University.

Ms. Paula Bellizia has been the Chief Executive Officer of Brazil at Microsoft Corporation since July 01, 2015. Ms. Bellizia manages the operations of Apple in Brazil for the last two years. Her previous experience at Microsoft lasted 10 years and ended in 2012. She holds MBA Degree in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from FIA USP from 1999-2000.

Ms. Cindy Rose has been the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft UK at Microsoft Corporation since November 01, 2016. Ms. Rose served in a variety of regional roles throughout her career. She served as Managing Director of Vodafone UK Consumer Division. Prior to this, Ms. Rose served as an Executive Director of Digital Entertainment at Virgin Media, Inc. since November 1, 2009. Ms. Rose served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Europe Middle East and Africa of Disney Interactive, Inc. since February 26, 2007. Ms. Rose served as Executive Director of Television of Virgin Media Inc. since November 1, 2009. Ms. Rose managed Virgin's European regional operations including premium subscription content and Internet-based services including advanced broadband, interactive television and mobile applications. She also managed the 14 local European versions of Disney.com. She was appointed senior counsel of European Legal Affairs for Burbank's Walt Disney Co. in 1996. She served as Vice President of Legal & Government Relations Europe for The Walt Disney Company since 1998. She joined Disney in 1995. She served as senior Vice President and Managing Director for Walt Disney International, UK and Ireland since 2001 and her territory was expanded in 2003 to include the Middle East and Mediterranean regions. She has been a Non-Executive Director of Informa plc since March 1, 2013. She holds a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Columbia University.

Mr. Richard F. Rashid, also known as Rick serves as Researcher Emeritus of Microsoft Corporation and served as its Chief Research Officer. Mr. Rashid is charged with oversight of Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. He also served as Senior Vice President Research of Microsoft Corporation from May 2000 to March 2003. Previously he served as the Director of Microsoft Research, focusing on operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. In that role he was responsible for managing work on key technologies leading to the development of Microsoft Corp.'s interactive TV system and authored a number of patents in areas such as data compression, networking and operating systems. In addition to running Microsoft Research, Mr. Rashid also was instrumental in creating the team that eventually became Microsoft's Digital Media Division and directing Microsoft's first e-commerce group. He was promoted to vice president of Microsoft Research in 1994. Before joining Microsoft in September 1991, he served as professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After becoming a CMU faculty member in September 1979, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems, and published dozens of papers about computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure at CMU, Mr. Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of many modern operating systems and remains at the core of a number of commercial systems. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for his work in operating systems and for innovation in industrial research. He also is credited with co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, Alto Trek, during the mid-1970s. His research interests have focused on artificial intelligence, operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. He has participated in the design and implementation of the University of Rochester RIG operating system from 1975 to 1979, the Rochester Virtual Terminal Management System from 1976 to 1979, the CMU Distributed Sensor Network Testbed from 1980 to 1983 and CMU's SPICE distributed personal computing environment, which included the Accent network operating system from 1981 to 1985. He has published papers on computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communication security. He received master of science (1977) and doctoral (1980) degrees in computer science from the University of Rochester. Mr. Rashid graduated with honors in mathematics and comparative literature from Stanford University in 1974.

Mrs. Julie Larson-Green serves as Chief Experience Officer of Office Experience Organization at Microsoft Corporation. Mrs. Larson-Green served as Chief Experience Officer of Applications & Services Group at Microsoft Corporation since April 2014 and its Corporate Vice President of Office Business Productivity Group since October 20153. Ms. Larson-Green served as Corporate Vice President Windows Experience Program Management at Microsoft Corporation. Mrs. Larson-Green served as the Head of the Xbox Division and Head of Devices & Studios Engineering Group at Microsoft Corporation since July 2013. She was responsible for the end-user interaction design and overall experience for Windows products after the release of Windows Vista and also responsible for program management, product design, usability and product planning within the engineering organization in Microsoft Platform and Services Division under President Kevin Johnson. Mrs. Green served as an Executive Vice President Devices and Studios at Microsoft Corporation. Mrs. Larson-Green joined Microsoft in 1993 and has focused on user-interface design throughout her career. As a program manager in Development Tools and languages, she was responsible for the first releases of Microsoft Visual C++ for 32-bit operating systems, also Microsoft's first Windows-based development tools. She then assumed the role of development manager, overseeing the team responsible for Microsoft's first customizable integrated development environment and user experience for the Windows environment. Moving to Windows team, she led efforts in Internet Explorer 3.0 and 4.0, including features for the Web-integrated Windows desktop. In 1997, she joined the Office team and led program management for Microsoft Office FrontPage, including the early work in information worker servers. Most recently, she was responsible for leading the user-interface design for Office XP, Office 2003 and the 2007 Office System of Microsoft Corp., which is being applauded for the innovation and reinvention of the user experience for productivity software. Prior to Microsoft, she held several positions in research and development in a Seattle-based company that developed market-leading desktop publishing software. Mrs. Larson-Green holds a master's degree in software engineering from Seattle University and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Western Washington University.

Mr. Michael Beal serves as General Manager and President of Belgium & Luxemburg at Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Beal has been Managing Director of Belgium at Microsoft Corporation since May 7, 2014. Mr. Beal works already 10 years for Microsoft and since September 2011 as Director of Marketing and Operations at Microsoft Japan. He holds BA Degree in Journalism & Advertising from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MBA Degree in Marketing and Internaitonal Business from University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business