Bio

In Microsoft's Enterprise & Partner Group (EPG), Ron supported the company's worldwide sales force
as Competitive Strategy Manager, producing sales tools and ammunition to advance Microsoft products
in enterprise scenarios against competitors such as Oracle, IBM and various Linux-focused companies.

On Microsoft's Communications Sector team, Ron was Senior Product Manager for the company's
Connected Services Framework product, enabling the world's largest telecommunications providers, mobile operators,
and hosting companies to combine web services into exciting new offerings for wireless, fixed-line, consumer and
business customers.

Prior to his Microsoft career, Ron built several software ventures, including e-Sell® Commerce Systems
(sold to RMI in 1998), which produced one of the earliest Internet storefront software packages for small businesses
to conduct online transactions, and Application Methods, Inc., which produced components, tools, launch demos
and sample applications for software-industry clients such as Netscape, Borland, Symantec, Microsoft and others.

For more information on Ron, see www.ronstevenson.com.