Rani Borkar is a force of nature.
Over a three-decade career, she has established herself as a technology leader and product visionary. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Rani for many years. We were colleagues together at Intel where she led the microprocessor product development team. She’s also held executive positions at IBM and she is currently Corporate Vice President for Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure at Microsoft. In fact, her leadership has intersected the most seminal platform shifts in the evolution of modern computing: the rise of the PC, the introduction of consumer mobile, the arrival of multi-core processors, and the proliferation of digital transformation via cloud, AI, and quantum computing. In her current role, she owns the vision, strategy, and architecture of silicon and systems development, cloud supply chain and global capacity deployment for Microsoft’s cloud data center infrastructure. Under her leadership, Microsoft’s brightest engineering minds focus on developing technologies that empower the world to innovate and drive end-to-end business value for Azure’s products and solutions.
In addition to her day job, she serves on the Board of Directors of Applied Materials, the Global Semiconductor Alliance, and on the Board of Trustees of Oregon State University, her alma mater. She holds both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master of Science degree in Physics from the University of Mumbai and a second Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.
In the latest episode of the Revealing Li podcast, Ep7 Mission First, People Always, of Rani and I talk about her childhood in India and the impact her family and her community had on the leader she has become. You can listen to Rani's inspiring story now on:
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