

“My organization is focused every day on delivering the solutions so that every customer, in every industry, and every country can adopt Azure to further their mission,” he explains.ĭuring his time with Azure, he led initiatives that included:Ĭreating the first hyperscale cloud in Africa and the first hyperscale cloud in ChinaĪdding the Azure Government Cloud in 2014Īdding industry cloud solutions for financial servicesĬreating the Microsoft Vanguard initiative, which guided 15,000 engineers to solve Microsoft’s biggest challenges, like General Data Protection Regulation


He incubated several new business opportunities from within Azure. “To this day, I am rarely the smartest person in the room - and when you work at a company with 190,000 employees it’s almost impossible to be,” he says. Widely known for his disciplined and results-driven approach to business, Keane has fostered innovation at Microsoft through collaboration. The Microsoft executive was responsible for a team of 600 engineers across 15 countries and countless new products across the company.Īs a core leader at Azure, Keane helmed the worldwide team that created The World’s Computer, the convergence of several technologies - including Artificial Intelligence, cloud, the Internet of Things, and more - to create the new frontier in technology and to alter life as we know it, much like the birth of the World Wide Web in 1991. Microsoft technology executive, Tom Keane, who has been pivotal in these technologies over the course of his 20-plus year career announced yesterday his departure from the Microsoft cloud team. Do you follow the NBA? Or play Gears of War on Xbox? Or manage your money through the National Australia Bank?
