Prashant Ketkar, Director of Product Marketing, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corporation

Prashant is Director of Product Marketing for Windows Azure. In this capacity, he has played an integral role in turning what was an incubation project into a full business unit within Microsoft, as well as bringing Microsoft's cloud computing platform to market. Prior to his current role, Prashant led the Enterprise Partner Strategy team in the Information Worker (Office) group. He has over 10 years of industry experience in technology product marketing, branding, and strategy, and has previously worked for the likes of Sun Microsystems and Tata Elxsi Ltd.