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Steven Sinofsky
Steven Jay Sinofsky (born 1965) is an American businessman, investor and software engineer. He was president of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his resignation in November 2012.
In 1998 and in 2013, Sinofsky was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School where he worked with students enrolled in a second year class on technology product development taught by Marco Iansiti and Stefan Thomke.
As of 2012, Sinofsky is a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he is on boards of investments.
Steven Sinofsky was born in New York City in 1965 to parents Marsha and David Sinofsky. Growing up, Sinofsky attended Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
Sinofsky attained his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, after graduating cum laude in 1987, with a dual major in chemistry and computer science. He pursued his postgraduate education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied under J. Eliot B. Moss in the area of object-oriented languages and databases, and acquired a Masters of Science in computer science in 1989. He also spent 3 semesters learning Russian while he was in college.
In the summer of 1984 and 1985, Sinofsky interned at Martin Marietta Data Systems (now Lockheed Martin) in Orlando, Florida. He deployed some of the first IBM PC XT/3720 computers and taught the C programming language to full time engineers.
In July 1989, Sinofsky joined Microsoft as a software design engineer where he was the project lead on the first versions of the Microsoft Foundation Classes C++ for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Visual C++.
He later served as a technical assistant to Bill Gates. Sinofsky was actively involved in recruiting for Microsoft and improving employee retention. As part of this, he took regular trips to university campuses to interview and recruit students. Sinofsky has blogged in detail about his efforts at Steven Sinofsky's Microsoft TechTalk. The blog also covered topics like what it is like to be a Microsoft employee and what new hires needed to know about Microsoft, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Windows.
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Steven Sinofsky
Steven Jay Sinofsky (born 1965) is an American businessman, investor and software engineer. He was president of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his resignation in November 2012.
In 1998 and in 2013, Sinofsky was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School where he worked with students enrolled in a second year class on technology product development taught by Marco Iansiti and Stefan Thomke.
As of 2012, Sinofsky is a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he is on boards of investments.
Steven Sinofsky was born in New York City in 1965 to parents Marsha and David Sinofsky. Growing up, Sinofsky attended Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
Sinofsky attained his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, after graduating cum laude in 1987, with a dual major in chemistry and computer science. He pursued his postgraduate education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied under J. Eliot B. Moss in the area of object-oriented languages and databases, and acquired a Masters of Science in computer science in 1989. He also spent 3 semesters learning Russian while he was in college.
In the summer of 1984 and 1985, Sinofsky interned at Martin Marietta Data Systems (now Lockheed Martin) in Orlando, Florida. He deployed some of the first IBM PC XT/3720 computers and taught the C programming language to full time engineers.
In July 1989, Sinofsky joined Microsoft as a software design engineer where he was the project lead on the first versions of the Microsoft Foundation Classes C++ for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Visual C++.
He later served as a technical assistant to Bill Gates. Sinofsky was actively involved in recruiting for Microsoft and improving employee retention. As part of this, he took regular trips to university campuses to interview and recruit students. Sinofsky has blogged in detail about his efforts at Steven Sinofsky's Microsoft TechTalk. The blog also covered topics like what it is like to be a Microsoft employee and what new hires needed to know about Microsoft, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Windows.