Mike Tsalidis is a 20 year Microsoft veteran that has followed Microsoft’s server business from its very beginning.   He has spent time with Microsoft’s server product group in Redmond, Microsoft Consulting Services in Australia and Honk Kong, helped start the Microsoft Greek subsidiary and has led technical  audience marketing in Microsoft’s EMEA headquarters in Paris.  In 2007 he joined Microsoft Middle East and Africa to lead the Server and Tools business group in the region.  He is responsible for the entire product line of Microsoft’s servers and tools products and heads Microsoft’s server cloud and application platform initiatives.