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Rani Borkar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure
Rani Borkar is the CVP for Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft, Borkar has been instrumental in strengthening Azure’s place as the industry-leading cloud computing platform. She is responsible for the vision, strategy, and architecture of silicon & system development as well as global capacity deployment for Microsoft’s cloud datacenter infrastructure. Before joining Microsoft, Borkar spent most of her career at Intel. As Corporate Vice President, she led Intel’s silicon product development strategy while leading diverse global engineering organizations. She holds board membership for the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and at Applied Materials, and serves on the Board of Trustees at Oregon State University. Borkar holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute, and a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Mumbai, India. Borkar resides in the Puget Sound and is married with two sons.