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Bernardo Caldas
CVP, Azure Edge Product Management
Caldas leads the Azure Edge Product Management team in Azure Edge + Platform, where he drives a portfolio of Azure Edge services including Azure Arc, Azure IoT, Azure Stack, and other Azure Arc enabled services. Prior to this role, Caldas led Microsoft Core Operations System PM, responsible for platform technologies that powered Azure cloud and edge. Earlier roles at Microsoft included product marketing and business planning for Windows, where he was deeply involved in growing the Windows device ecosystem and the Windows commercial cloud business as part of Microsoft 365. Education – Caldas earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica in Brazil and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Asha Sharma
CVP, Head of Product, Microsoft AI Platform
Sharma leads product development for Microsoft’s AI Platform. The AI Platform team aims to supply Microsoft’s first party teams with critical AI infrastructure and services to grow and delight our third party customer base of developers and data scientists with products ranging from Azure Machine Learning to Cognitive Services to our customizable APIs and Azure AI services. Pre-Microsoft Work Experience – Prior to Microsoft, Sharma was the Chief Operating Officer of Instacart (Nasdaq: CART) responsible for the P&L, product, design, data science, research, marketing, operations, support and new businesses. Sharma was also previously Vice President of Product at Meta overseeing multiple product groups building Messenger, Instagram Direct, Messenger Kids, Remote Presence (calling, video, etc.), and company-wide platforms. Education – Sharma earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

Arun Ulagaratchagan
CVP, Azure Data
Arun leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for Azure Data, which includes databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging, and business intelligence. The products in his teams' portfolio include Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure MySQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric. Previously, as the GM of the APAC Cloud & Enterprise Division, Arun was responsible for growing Microsoft's Windows Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence for Microsoft in the APAC region based out of Singapore. Before moving to Singapore, Arun held WW accountability for growing Microsoft's SQL Server business with enterprise customers.

Jeremy Winter
CVP and Chief Product Officer, Azure Platform
Pioneering Microsoft’s cloud-native and management solutions for Azure, Jeremy brings more than 25 years of experience as a developer, operations, and product manager to his role. An entrepreneur at heart, Jeremy has an innate talent for identifying market gaps and is passionate about innovating new solutions to enable and empower customers, whether that’s incubating a new solution, building a business or thru acquisition. At the core, his leadership is centered on people, trust, and humility. Jeremy is responsible for a broad portfolio of Azure products and areas such Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Linux, Azure Resource Manager and recently launched Azure Arc, which brings Azure services and management to any infrastructure, anywhere. The depth of his hands-on experience juggling the multitude of complexities of helping customers transform through software and migrations, leading Hotmail Operations, and managing the Systems Center portfolio is foundational to his holistic approach to business.

Christine Sarros
Senior Vice President, OCI Product Development
Christine Sarros is the Senior Vice President of the OCI Enterprise Engineering organization spearheading transformative change for Oracle employees and customers. Tasked with delivering cutting-edge cloud IT services to over 170,000 global employees, Christine designs and deploys Oracle and Oracle partner services into Enterprise production. As the steward of Employee Experience, she champions initiatives to bridge the gap between technology and human interaction. At the core of her portfolio lies Engineering Solutions that accelerate cloud adoption and cloud lifecycle management for agility and efficiency.Christine has 25 years of experience as a leader for Fortune 500 technology companies and currently leads of team of 1500 global staff within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure organization.