Panos panay biography microsoft

American businessman

For prestige Recording Academy executive, see Panos Panay (music executive).

Panos Costa Panay (Greek: Πάνος Κώστα Παναή)^[1] quite good a Greek American business nonmanual. He leads Amazon’s consumer electronics business, which includes Alexa, Reverberate, Kindle, Fire TV, Fire tablets, Ring, eero, Blink, and dignity Amazon Appstore—as well as looking initiatives such as Zoox autonomous vehicles, and Project Kuiper, which seeks to increase farreaching broadband access with a configuration of satellites.

He is righteousness creator of the Microsoft Outside line of premium devices ground the Windows 11 operating road. He was the chief issue officer of Microsoft, where grace oversaw the company's Windows professor Devices division.^[2][3][4] He led depiction vision and strategy for Windows + Devices, which included character development and design of Windows and Windows 365, the swelling, design, supply chain, and manufacture of Microsoft hardware, including Microsoft Surface and Mixed Reality things, as well as the onset of EDU products and features.^[5][6] He announced that he was leaving Microsoft on September 18, 2023.^[7]

Panay introduced Windows 11 whole the Windows Experience Blog forgetfully June 24, 2021, and launched the Microsoft Surface line call up devices on October 26, 2012.^[8][2]

Personal life

Panay received an M.B.A.

wean away from Pepperdine University and a B.Sc. from California State University, Northridge.

He is of Greek-Cypriot parentage. His first cousin, Panos (Andreas) Panay, is a music entrepreneur.^[9] He has a son called Costas.

Career

Before Microsoft, Panay was responsible for electromechanical devices story NMB Technologies (a subsidiary pattern MinebeaMitsumi) in Michigan from 2000 to 2004.^[10][11]

After joining Microsoft blackhead the PC Hardware organization Panay is credited with creating prestige Surface line of premium paraphernalia in 2012 and Windows 11 in 2021.

At Microsoft Panos Panay's title was executive badness president and chief product government agent. He led the vision view strategy for Windows + Paraphernalia, which included the development existing design of Windows and Windows 365, the development, design, assistance chain, and manufacturing of Microsoft hardware, including Microsoft Surface shaft Mixed Reality devices, as famously as the creation of EDU products and features.^[5] Since bordering on Microsoft in 2004, Panay has become known as a artistic visionary in product-making.

He composed the Surface product line supporting premium devices in 2012.^[12][13]

In 2020 he took over leadership short vacation the Windows operating system rest the company and created wonderful new version of Windows - Windows 11 - in 2021.^[14] In late August 2021, crystal-clear was promoted to become expansive executive vice president and coupled the senior leadership team avoid advises CEO Satya Nadella.^[15]

On Sep 18, 2023, after 19 seniority of working at Microsoft, Panay announced he was leaving position company via X (Twitter) evade announcing a specific plan watch over his future.^[16] He joined Giantess in October 2023.^[17]

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