
Joy Chik
Joy Chik leads Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar Identity and Network Access security business. Her organization builds solutions to secure access to everything for everyone, which includes Identity Access Management Solutions (Microsoft Entra, formerly Azure AD), Microsoft Consumer Experience (Microsoft Account), and end user Network Access Services for the Microsoft Cloud. These services provide over 100B authentications every day around the world. Joy’s team is pioneering the digital Trust Fabric to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database. This includes championing digital verification technologies, known as Entra Verified ID, that protect individual privacy while securing information for businesses and consumers. Joy graduated summa cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. In 1998 she joined Microsoft as a software engineer and has held multiple engineering and leadership roles across Microsoft. Joy is active in charities and has deep passion for supporting and helping women and girls pursuing technology careers.