About
Ian Tien is Stanford MBA student.
He was formerly a senior product manager at Microsoft developing consumer cloud computing offerings extending Windows to the web. His portfolio included Office Web Applications, SkyDrive, Live Mesh, Windows Live Photos, FrameIt, and Favorites, plus new services yet to be announced. In 2009, he served as interim lead for the Hotmail product management group.
Previously, he led and managed engineering teams for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, and the Microsoft Office Business Intelligence Accelerators, developing dashboarding and business modeling capabilities now integrated into Microsoft’s Excel, SharePoint, Visio and SQL Server product lines.
Before Microsoft, Ian lived prior lives in product management and development at Trilogy Software in Austin, Texas (financial services business unit), ETrade in Toronto, Canada (institutional trading division), and a Washington D.C. start-up (supply chain automation) bought by Manugistics. He’s an alumnus of Cornell University and the University of Waterloo with degrees in computer science, cognitive science and computer engineering.
