Sanjay Parthasarathy
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Sanjay Parthasarathy is a former Microsoft executive and technology expert. He is currently the CEO of Indix, a technology company that provides a comprehensive product intelligence platform and a product database which aims to help websites and apps become product-aware.[1]
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Education | B.S. mechanical engineering, S.M. engineering, S.M. management |
Alma mater | MIT, MIT Sloan School of Management |
Occupation(s) | CEO and Founder of Indix, former Microsoft executive |
Parthasarathy left Microsoft in 2009 when he was Corporate VP of the Startup Business Accelerator program, a division that he created.[2][3][4][5] Before that, he was Corporate VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism from 2000 to 2007.[6][7] He grew Microsoft's developer business tools from $500 million to $1 billion, launched .NET, and has run microsoft.com and the Internet Security product unit.[8] He directed Bill Gates' first trip to India in 1997 which led to significant investment from Microsoft in the country,[8][9] benefitting the growing software industry there.[3][10][11][12]