Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos

• CapitalG, Alphabet/Google’s independent growth fund, invests in generational companies transforming the world's largest markets. https://www.capitalg.com/team/satish-thomas/

Jan 2015 – Jan 2025 · 10 yrs · Redmond, Washington

• Microsoft Accelerator is a global program empowering entrepreneurs to build and scale great companies. Helps startups become enterprise-ready across engineering, product, and go-to-market.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2026 · 20 yrs · Redmond, Washington, United States

• Led Microsoft’s Business & Industry Clouds engineering organization -- spanning product, design, development and AI/ML teams across Industry Clouds and Business Applications (enterprise & SMB). Accountable for industry & cross-industry solutions in Sustainability, Sovereignty, Retail & CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, Financial Services, and Public Sector—driving AI-powered industry transformation, customer impact, and a scaled partner ecosystem.
• Other roles held at Microsoft:
• Head of Product, Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Group Manager, Microsoft AppSource
• Group Program Manager, Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Software Engineer
• Intern

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · Chicago, Illinois

• Intern technology analyst in Global & Corporate Investment Banking (GCIB) group.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs · Chicago, Illinois

• Webmaster responsible for the main IIT website (www.iit.edu). Responsibilities included delivering on webdev projects for departments, Apache Web Server administration & configuration, UNIX sys administration.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs · Gaborone, Botswana

• eDumela was a social network targeted at youth in Southern Africa, launched in 1999. It was built on the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack and garnered over 100,000+ users in a decade where the internet and the concept of social networking was nascent, especially in Africa.