Alex Simons is Corporate Vice President, Product Management & Security Engineering Team, Microsoft Identity and Network Access Division. He is responsible for driving the vision & strategy, product roadmap, and feature design of the Microsoft Entra Suite. He prides himself on being deeply connected to customers and has direct relationships with many of Microsoft’s largest enterprise customers. In addition to managing his own team, Alex is responsible for partnering with teams across Office, Windows, Azure, Visual Studio, Dynamics, Xbox, and LinkedIn to deliver world class identity experiences and security and compliance controls.

A career Microsoft employee, Simons joined the company full time in 1993 and has worked in a broad range of software and cloud services including Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Windows 7 & 8. He joined the Identity Division in January of 2012 and to lead Microsoft’s push to create a cloud-based identity and network access set of services.

Simons has a degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a self-taught computer programmer. In his spare time, he coaches competitive high school and college volleyball.