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As senior vice president of the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division and Communications Sector Business (MED & CS) at Microsoft Corp., Pieter Knook is responsible for the development, marketing and sales of software that powers a wide variety of devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, portable media players, televisions and devices in cars. Pieter also is responsible for Microsoft's overall business relationships with the worldwide communications sector industry, which encompasses Microsoft's activities with network service providers in the wireless, wire-line, hosting and cable arena as well as media and entertainment.
The MED & CS division's mission is to build a new platform business in areas such as Microsoft® Windows Mobile devices and a sweeping range of devices powered by Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded. These devices support a range of usage scenarios such as mobile information work, media and entertainment, and line of business applications development, and can be used in different modes such as speech, in cars or with location services on the go.
From 2001 to 2003, Pieter was responsible for the Network Service Provider (NSP) group at Microsoft before the group was merged with the Mobile Devices Division and, subsequently, the Embedded Devices Group and Automotive Business Unit.
Pieter joined Microsoft in 1990 and has held a variety of management leadership positions both at the Company’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters and internationally. From 1997 to 2001, Pieter was president of Microsoft Asia, overseeing sales, marketing and support in greater China, Southeast Asia, India, Korea and Japan. Under his leadership, the region more than doubled revenue expectations and became the fastest growth area for Microsoft.
Prior to 1997, Pieter was general manager of Microsoft's customer systems group, where he was responsible for all IT systems including http://www.microsoft.com/, which under his direction became the third largest site on the Internet.
Pieter served as the general manager of Microsoft's business customer marketing and, before that, general manager of enterprise marketing. He was director of Microsoft Consulting and the ISV group for Microsoft U.K. starting in October 1990, growing the business from one to 50 consultants over three years.
Pieter regularly speaks at wireless, telecom and executive business events. Pieter holds a master's degree in electrical science from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, England. | 