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Vice President, Product Management, Azure Edge Infrastructure

Dean Paron is Vice President of Product Management at Microsoft, leading Azure’s adaptive cloud infrastructure portfolio including Azure Local, Azure Operator Nexus, and Azure Stack. He defines and drives Microsoft’s strategy for delivering distributed cloud and AI capabilities across hyperscale, edge, and sovereign environments, helping customers operate securely and independently wherever they need to run.

 

With more than 25 years at Microsoft, Dean has built and scaled multiple global businesses across cloud, edge, and AI, creating new product categories and guiding them to worldwide impact. He has also held a research appointment at Argonne National Laboratory and is an active investor and advisor in startups shaping the future of cloud and AI.

 

Dean holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.