Paul Maritz

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Paul Maritz, born 1955 in what was then Rhodesia, is President and General Manager of EMC Corporation's Cloud Computing division. Maritz was a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he served on the 5-person executive management team. He was founder and CEO of Pi Corporation, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, which was acquired by EMC in February 2008.

He sponsors third-world development projects and is the chairman of the board of the Grameen Foundation.

His last position at Microsoft was as vice president of the Platforms Strategy and Developer Group. Born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he attended the University of Cape Town where he studied computer science. Prior to working at Microsoft, he worked for Intel developing early tools to help developers write software for the then-new x86 platform.

Paul has three children and lives with his wife in Mercer Island, Washington, USA.

[edit] References

• "Microsoft Loses Another Key Executive", CNET, 14 September 2000. 
• Grameen Foundation USA Advisory Councils. Retrieved on 19 May 2007.
• Pi Corporation. Retrieved on 24 April 2006.
• Forbes article on Pi Corporation. Retrieved on 24 June 2006.
• EMC Acquisition of Pi Corporation Press Release. Retrieved on 21 February 2008.