Dan'l Lewin

Corporate VP, Microsoft

Dan'l Lewin is corporate vice president of Microsoft® .NET Business Development at Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for managing and expanding strategic business relationships in Silicon Valley and with emerging venture capital backed businesses worldwide around Microsoft's Microsoft® .NET initiative. A 25-year Silicon Valley veteran, Lewin was most recently CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., an enterprise software company focused on intellectual property asset management. He also spent 18 years as an executive leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Corp., NeXT Software Inc. and Go Corporation. In addition, Lewin has served as a consultant for emerging companies and joint start-up enterprises such as Kaleida and Taligent, and has worked with venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and SOFTBANK Venture Capital. During Lewin's tenure at Apple, he developed and executed the company's strategy and programs to enter the higher-education market from the Macintosh division, eventually serving as director of all education sales and marketing for the company. He then became a founding vice president at NeXT, leading worldwide sales and marketing. At Aurigin, he expanded the company from a concept to a system implemented at more than 60 Fortune 500 companies.

Dan'l holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University.