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Patrick LeBlanc
Patrick LeBlanc
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Patrick LeBlanc is a currently a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and a contributing partner to Guy in a Cube. Along with his 15+ years’ experience in IT he holds a Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is the author and co-author of five SQL Server books. Prior to joining Microsoft he… READ MORE

Rick Xu
Rick Xu
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Rick has been with Fabric since its inception. His mission is to make Fabric the most secure and compliant analytics platform for any and all of customers’ data estate need!  

Sara Vredevoogd
Sara Vredevoogd
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My team is focused on improving the discoverability of data content within Power BI from across Fabric. I love connecting with customers to learn how they use data to drive better decisions and how we can better support their goals.  

Santhosh Kumar Ravindran
Santhosh Kumar Ravindran
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Product Manager @ Microsoft Corporation with over 7 years of software engineering (full stack) and deep knowledge and experience in data science. Currently leading the Spark compute platform for Microsoft Fabric. Prior to my current role was responsible for the Microsoft Data Governance Platform, which included Governance Catalog (Purview), Data Estate Insights, and Lineage tracing… READ MORE

Bob Ward
Bob Ward
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Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data team, which owns the development for Microsoft SQL Edge to Cloud. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 30+ years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2022 including Azure SQL. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server… READ MORE

Ulrich Christ
Ulrich Christ
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Ulrich has worked on data warehousing and data integration for almost 20 years. After many years with SAP, in various roles across engineering and product management, he joined Microsoft’s data integration PM team in 2022.  

Christian Wade
Christian Wade
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As Group Product Manager in the Fabric and Power BI group, I manage a team of program managers responsible for enterprise modeling features across Microsoft’s BI product portfolio. I drive product strategy, feature prioritization, planning, design, execution, customer engagement and business results by making Power BI, the most successful BI platform on the planet, even… READ MORE

Sanjay Mishra
Sanjay Mishra
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Sanjay Mishra is a Data and AI product leader in Microsoft. Sanjay is the head of product management for Azure SQL and SQL Server suite of products. He drives vision, strategy, product growth and customer adoption across a diverse set of product portfolio, including Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, SSMS, SQL Copilots and vector databases… READ MORE