Corporate Vice President
Sanjay Parthasarathy is corporate vice president of Platform Strategy & Partner Group as well as the evangelism of the .NET platform to the developer community.
Most recently, Parthasarathy was general manager of Worldwide Customer Systems, which included responsibility for www.microsoft.com, the world’s fourth largest Web site and the IT infrastructure for Microsoft’s sales and marketing organizations.
Prior to that, Parthasarathy was the regional director of Microsoft’s South Asia Region, responsible for Microsoft’s business in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan. Before managing the South Asia Region, Parthasarathy was product unit manager of Internet Security Products.
Parthasarathy has been with Microsoft since 1990 and has served in a number of roles, including director of public network marketing and product manager for multimedia technologies. Parthasarathy joined Microsoft as product manager in the Windows multimedia group in August 1990.
Parthasarathy has a master’s degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., a master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Anna University in Madras, India.
A scion from the TVS family, Parathasarathy, immediately after his masters programme, joined Microsoft in 1990 and has ever since remained loyal to the organisation. His growth in ranks is meritorious and is bound to raise envy among peers.
Parthasarathy joined Microsoft as product manager in the Windows multimedia and served a number of roles including director of public network marketing and product manager for multimedia technologies. Then, he was appointed as product unit manager of Internet Security Products.
And soon, he asked for his next assignment as regional director of Microsoft’s South Asia Region, responsible for Microsoft’s business in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan.
Before being appointed as vice president, Parthasarathy was general manager of Worldwide Customer Systems, which included responsibility for www.microsoft.com, the world’s fourth largest Web site and the IT infrastructure for Microsoft’s sales and marketing organizations.
In all his roles, it is the evangelism of .Net platform, which has caught the media attention as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems got entangled in a duel when Microsoft started promoting .Net instead of Java.
The legal battle lasted for nearly three years and was settled in favour of Sun Microsystems. But this has not perturbed Sanjay Parthasarathy who remains upbeat on .Net.
Further, his investments in Indya.com also took a beating when the site did not generate the expected returns.
Despite criticisms, Sanjay Parthasarathy has managed to hold his own and is credited with developing the Indian market for Microsoft to the size of $3billion within a few years of MS starting its operations here.
Sanjay Parthasarathy is now looking forward to the next major release from Microsoft -- the new Windows platform, codenamed Longhorn, which is due in 2005.
"This is probably the biggest bet the company has made since Windows
95. With the Windows Longhorn client you will get Office for Longhorn,
MSN for Longhorn, you will get a companion Longhorn server release. Every
one of our products in Microsoft will line up with the Longhorn wave,
" he says in an interview.
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