Ali is the worldwide VP of Azure AI Platform, Customer eXperience Engineering, responsible for Azure OpenAI (GPT4, ChatGPT..), Cognitive Services, Azure Search, & Azure ML customer engineering, tooling, product planning, business strategy, product commercialization, & strategic engagements. Ali is Board Member of the Open Voice Network, representing Microsoft with the Linux Foundation; and he is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP). He is a global, broad, multi-disciplinary leader with 28+ years’ experience in the tech industry across business, product, engineering, research, M&A, corporate strategy, product & startup incubations, VC’s. He has held many senior leadership roles at Microsoft, built multiple businesses from the grounds up and scaled them, drove product incubations, and in his current tole, has scaled Microsoft’s AI business to hundred of millions of dollars. He holds patents in Computer Vision, as co-inventor (USPO Patents 10748001, 10748002, 20190332864 A1). He holds B.Sc. in Business Administration in Computer Applications & Systems. He has lived in Europe, MEA, and currently lives in Washington State, USA with his family. He enjoys the outdoors, is an avid reader, and loves to travel and learn about new cultures.