Mike Werner

Mike Werner is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft’s developer and cloud-services technologies. Mr. Werner recently rejoined Microsoft in this roll to accelerate Microsoft’s impact with major enterprise customers, industry partners, and the innovation ecosystem to identify and promote opportunities surrounding the Azure Services Platform.

Prior to this role, Mr. Werner spent the previous two years advising and meeting with technology companies, internet elite and enterprise customers as well as traversing the developer and entrepreneur communities across the country. Mike also was an Executive in Residence with Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, Massachusetts working on IT, Cloud and Internet investments. Mike was at Microsoft Corporation from 1990 to 2006 in a variety of strategic roles in Redmond, Silicon Valley and Boston, where he most recently was responsible for Microsoft’s Venture Capital and Emerging Business in New England focused on investment, M&A, IP and product team integration with venture-backed businesses.

Mike spent seven years in the Microsoft field where he built and established the Microsoft Technology Centers in Silicon Valley and Boston. Mike also led high performance marketing and enterprise sales teams which focused on driving Microsoft server and tools revenue and deployment in Fortune 100 accounts. Throughout his tenure in Redmond, he worked on many parts of the business, with an emphasis on platform and developer oriented technologies.

Mike is known as Microsoft’s ‘father of developer community’ where he built some of the industry’s most successful developer programs and brands, including the Microsoft Developer Network, which has supported millions of developers and entrepreneurs worldwide.

Mike is a frequent speaker and panel participant at industry and academic events in the New England area.