Bill Veghte 

Bill has spent more than 17 years at Microsoft in a variety of development, sales and marketing positions across the company. 

Most recently, Mr. Veghte was responsible for Microsoft’s North American business, leading that region to an 18% increase in overall customer and partner satisfaction and growing the business by over $2B in top-line revenue in 3 years.  Previously, he was a Corporate Vice President in the Windows Server Group, where he oversaw development and marketing of several award-winning server products, including Windows Server 2003 and Small Business Server 2003, and helped shape Microsoft’s overall position on open source software.

Prior to that, Mr. Veghte led Microsoft’s embedded and appliance business, managed the development of Windows 98, and was one of the founding members of the Microsoft Office team.     

Mr. Veghte graduated with honors from Harvard University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies.  Veghte lives in Seattle, is an enthusiastic husband and parent of two boys, and an avid outdoorsman who loves hiking and skiing.