About
I don’t like to have massive paragraphs about myself…it makes me uncomfortable. I am a retread at Microsoft, having left the company 9 years ago to head out to Wall Street and a couple of startups. Having spent time at Soros Private Equity, I learned a ton about the other side of the table, investing over $70 million, mostly in technology related businesses. Post Soros, I decided to take a management position at RLX, one of our portfolio companies. We sold that business in 2005 to HP. I went on to found IMSafer, a consumer Internet company focused on protecting kids online, in early 2006, built the company up to 150K customers, and sold that business to a company in the UK. My wife and I wanted to get back to Seattle, and, quite honestly, with two kids under age three, I needed some time to breathe. So of course I take on the massive challenge of building the ecosystem around cloud services for Microsoft. Yeah, lots of time to breathe.
I have a very dusty engineering degree and an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MBA from The Wharton School of Business. I have to be honest, I’m not sure I’m using any of what I learned in school. 
In my free time, I listen to music, read a ton, mess around with Python, train for Ironman and half Ironman distance triathlons, and, most importantly, spend time with my wife and two awesome kids.
