Jim worked at Microsoft for nearly two decades before taking on the CIO duties in 2013. During his tenure as CIO, he supported the company’s billions of customers and more than 90,000 employees in 190 countries worldwide and migrated 95 percent of the company’s on-premise IT capabilities to the cloud.
His team also implemented the first Cortana skills and practical machine-learning algorithms, including those that guided Microsoft’s sales force to improve sales. Since leaving the company in 2017, he now serves on several boards including Expeditors, Cyemptive, Collabra, SubSplash, Axcient, Profisee and Sr Advisor for McKinsey & Co. Jim has been involved with Stronger Families since the early 2000s. He served as Chair for the Board for 4 years. He and his wife Shannon (Dr. of Psychology) enjoy time with family, traveling and spending time with their 22-month-old grandson. Jim is a writer, has published a book called “Six Word Lessons to Think like a Modern CIO”(recognized by CIO.com) and he is working on his first fiction novel.
Jim DuBois
