Mr. John Devadoss
Board of Director

John Devadoss joined the Board of Directors as an Additional Director in November 2007.

JOHN DEVADOSS is Senior Director of Technical Strategy in the Application Platform and Developer division at Microsoft. His areas of responsibility include architecture and technology strategy and product planning for the SOAplatform, and the evolving Software + Services platform. He has over 15 years of experience in the software industry; he has been at Microsoft for over 9 years, all of it in the enterprise space - as a consultant, as a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, as an architect working with some of Microsoft's key partners, Director of architecture strategy and most recently leading technical strategy for the application platform.

Prior to Microsoft he spent many years as a technology consultant in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley.

His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both services and access), but most of all in creating business value from technology investment.

John has a B.Eng.in Computer Science and Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, India, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. He did work towards a PhD in Computer Science and hopes to complete at some point in his career.