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A 10-year Microsoft Corp. veteran, Bob Kelly was promoted to the position of corporate vice president, Infrastructure Server Marketing in August 2007. He leads a team comprising more than 180 members, which resides in the Server and Tools Business (STB) organization. In this role, Kelly focuses on Microsoft’s overall infrastructure strategy worldwide in conjunction with the development, sales and evangelism teams. The infrastructure server marketing organization includes the marketing teams for Microsoft Management Solutions, Security and Access, Identity and Access, Windows Server, Windows Server Solutions and Solution Accelerators.
Kelly began his career at Microsoft with the Windows NT Server 3.51 marketing team, where he focused primarily on competitive marketing. He then transitioned to team lead and then to group manager of Windows NT Server and Windows 2000 Server marketing. Following the launch of Windows 2000 Server, Kelly helped form the company’s U.S. subsidiary. During that time, he managed the Infrastructure Server marketing team (Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Systems Management Server (SMS), Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), Operations Manager (MOM), and Application Center), as well as the information technology professional and business value marketing teams. | 