Matt is currently Vice President, Security in the Cloud and Enterprise division, responsible for hyper-scale infrastructure security services that Azure depends on, as well as customer-facing security services used by some of the world's largest online services such as Office 365. Previously Matt was Vice President, Trustworthy Computing Security, where he led global teams of security professionals who managed Microsoft's product/services security risks, handled global product/services privacy and security incident response, and maintained enterprise security across enterprise & production networks. He also managed government IA relationships and international security policy issues. Matt joined Microsoft in 1994 as a software engineer and has extensive experience in product and services security, cryptography, vulnerabilities and malware, as well as global policy issues. In his 20+ years at Microsoft, Matt has built and led many security engineering efforts with large customer impact, leading teams of over 250. He is named as inventor on over 20 patents on technologies ranging from random number generators to vulnerability mitigation techniques. Matt speaks regularly at top government policy conferences, engages with executives of customers and partners, and has held government advisory roles. He is highly engaged with technology leaders, executives, as well as global leaders from many countries and all levels of government including US Congress, EU Commission, heads of state, foreign ministers and other high-ranking government officials. He is former Chairman and 5-year board member of NIST’s Information Security & Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB), the only public advisory board to the US federal government on IT security. Matt has been recognized as a 2014 Federal 100 winner for his work to secure the US federal government, and a 2015 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader.

Vice President, Security - Cloud & Enterprise @ From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Security Consultant @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months)

Matt Thomlinson is skilled in: Leadership, Product Management, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Security, Go-to-market Strategy, Product Planning, Software Development, Product Marketing, Computer Security, Partner Management, Program Management, Network Security, Information Security