Navin Sathi

GM, Datacenter Operations, Microsoft

I am a General Manager, Datacenter Operations at Microsoft, where I lead the Western Region of our Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) division. With over 20 years of experience in global IT service delivery and cloud infrastructure, I have successfully managed large-scale, highly available, and sustainable system infrastructures and operations across multiple continents and countries. In my current role, I leverage my competencies in global delivery, service management, and sustainability to enable our data centers to provide world-class, industry-leading cloud services to our customers. Some of my key achievements include leading deployment of AI technologies to our datacenters, I led one of the largest vendor to employee conversions for our data center technicians, creating a reporting methodology to reflect the performance and health of our data centers, developing a staffing methodology and process for resource management, and overseeing the operational assurance, audit, and compliance for all our global data centers. I am passionate about working with talented teams and partners to deliver innovative and impactful solutions for our cloud infrastructure. I have also led CO+I commitments for Sustainability and D&I in the past and I am active supporter of our partnerships and engagement with the local communities that support our datacenters. My fundamental areas of focus are Safety, Security and Operational Excellence.