As General Manager of Microsoft's developer & platform evangelism efforts, Matt has the first hand opportunity to both observe and work with a number of Silicon Valley's most unique technology startups.

His time is split between working with this influential community of technologists as they adopt Microsoft technologies (including Microsoft's cloud offering, Windows Azure, and new phone platform, Windows Phone 7); advising a number of early stage startups; and working with Microsoft customers & partners as they implement solutions on top of the breadth of the Microsoft platform offerings.

Previously, as Sr. Director of Sun's Cloud engineering organization Matt was responsible for the development of Sun's platform as a service offering and related cloud developer tools. In a previous role, Matt was responsible for Sun's developer program and technology outreach worldwide. When not working you'll likely find Matt off an island somewhere following his passion, underwater photography.