As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud + AI Group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for Microsoft’s cloud computing fabric, artificial intelligence platform, and the company’s industry cloud solutions. This spans products and services such as Microsoft Azure, the global cloud computing platform, Microsoft Business Applications, including the automated business process capabilities of Dynamics 365 and low-code/no-code tools in the Power Platform. It also includes a rich set of developer tools with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and GitHub, core commerce capabilities and infrastructure, and compliance solutions across the Microsoft Cloud. The recent acquisition of Nuance Communications brings deep conversational AI and ambient intelligence domain experience to the portfolio.

Previously, Guthrie was corporate vice president of the Microsoft Azure team. Since joining the company in 1997, he has made critical contributions to many of Microsoft’s essential cloud, server and development technologies, and was one of the founders of the .NET project.

Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University.