Analisa leads the marketing for IoT solutions and is focused on how Microsoft can go to market with our partners. Across the portfolio of IoT solutions, Analisa is responsible for the IoT solutions value proposition, global marketing strategy, and supporting partner co-sell motions. She also works in partnership with product marketing, engineering and sales to provide training, resources and programs to reduce barriers, foster beneficial relationships and enable partners to confidently bring IoT solutions to market.

The mission of the Windows IoT team is “Be the platform and service of choice for all device builders”. As the Senior Director for Sales Strategy & Operations within Microsoft’s IoT Device Partner group, Andrew leads both the business transformation plans and also the operational capability development for our fast-moving IoT Device business.

In his 17 years at Microsoft, Andrew has held positions in the Enterprise Sales, Enterprise Services, Public Sector, and Marketing & Operations divisions of Microsoft’s UK Subsidiary, and has held leadership positions with worldwide responsibility for sales strategy and execution in both the Small & Medium Solutions & Partners group and the OEM Division. Prior to joining Microsoft, Andrew held a variety of engineering, management and policy-making roles within the UK Government.

Andrew graduated from the University of York in the United Kingdom with a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer and outside work is a keen pianist.

As the Principal Lead Program Manager, Azure Sphere, Danielle is very passionate about ideating, brainstorming, and managing creative process to deliver bold new ideas and product stories that come to life across mediums and channels. She specializes in developing value proposition, positioning and messaging strategies by getting inside the minds of the customers and understanding their motivations, needs, and barriers. Danielle enjoys working in cross-functional teams, and coaching and mentoring people.

Josh Nash is a Principal Product Planner on the Azure Sphere engineering team at Microsoft. In his role, he is responsible for representing the product team in customer engagements as well as communicating priorities of new customer requirements to engineering. In previous roles at Microsoft, Nash was Director of Escalations & Resolutions for the Cloud + Enterprise business, Chief of Staff and Strategy to the Chairman of Emerging Markets and a Product Manager in the Windows Emerging Business Unit. He has served in leadership roles at Calgary Scientific Inc. and Intellectual Ventures and began his career as a Consultant at Accenture. Nash holds a BA from Columbia University as well as an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Lou Lutostanski was named vice president, Internet of Things (IoT) for Avnet in March 2017. In this role, he works across the company to identify and create opportunities to leverage Avnet’s capabilities and expand the company’s reach and expertise to entrepreneurs, startups, leading technology OEMs and other IoT innovators, enabling them to bring IoT solutions to market, from idea to production. He reports to Pete Bartolotta, Chief Transformation Officer for Avnet.

Lutostanski has 30 years of experience and industry knowledge. He joined Avnet in 1987 as a system sales manager. Throughout the next 13 years, he gained increasing responsibility as a field application engineer, sales manager, branch manager, and vice president, area director. Lou left Avnet in 2000 and spent 12 years at Motorola/Freescale where he served as the global vice president of sales covering Hewlett Packard and Motorola, and then as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. Since his return to Avnet in 2013, he has served as vice president of sales for the Americas and as vice president of demand creation for the Americas.

Lutostanski graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and earned an MBA from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He resides in Austin, Texas.

Rodney Clark is the Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Internet of Things and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Rodney is responsible for building Intelligent Solutions, from edge to cloud, with partners across the ecosystem, and driving sales and go to market execution to accelerate solution development and customer solution implementation.

A 20+ year Microsoft veteran, Rodney has held a number of executive positions within the company including, General Manager of the Global Alliances, General Manager of Strategy and Sales for the worldwide small and medium business team, and General Manager of Microsoft Across America, a Technical Sales and Marketing Evangelism organization. Prior to Microsoft, Rodney spent nine years with IBM.

Outside of work, Rodney serves as an advisor of the Board of Directors for Children’s Museum Seattle and the Craig School of Business CSU-Fresno.

Sarah Maston is a senior solution architect at Microsoft. She works with our partner ecosystem to build global scalable IoT solutions on Azure. She specializes in process architecture and data solution architecture.

She is the inventor of the Project Edison, a safety notification and response 3rd party solution accelerator, for which she won the Microsoft Polaris Award. In her 20 year career, she has architected many of the data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Prior to joining Microsoft, she won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for the invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe.