{"id":279829,"date":"2026-02-04T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279829\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:54:06","slug":"microsoft-teams-founder-jigar-thakkar-to-lead-amazon-quick-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279829\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams founder Jigar Thakkar to lead Amazon Quick Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian American engineering innovator and Microsoft Teams founder and engineering innovator Jigar Thakkar has joined Amazon Web Services to lead its new AI-powered digital workspace Quick Suite product.<\/p>\n

During his 19-year tenure at Microsoft, Thakkar built large-scale products and served in various leadership positions in Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Bing, Windows and MSN divisions.<\/p>\n

As the new vice president of Amazon Quick Suite, Thakkar will lead AWS\u2019 team in building out a portfolio of agentic applications and services designed for business users, Amazon stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cJigar brings over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation and engineering excellence across global financial services and major technology platforms,\u201d it stated. \u201cHe spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft, where he was the founding engineering leader for Microsoft Teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thakkar joined Microsoft in 1999 and quickly became a software development lead for Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. He spent five years as a principal development manager for Windows Mobile Devices team, then spent several years in various top engineering roles, according to his LinkedIn profile. In 2015, Thakkar became Microsoft\u2019s engineering leader and founding member of Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n

Read: \u2018ChatGPT is great but you can\u2019t use it at work,\u2019 AWS Julia White says as Amazon launches Quick Suite\u00a0(October 10, 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n

On LinkedIn, Thakkar said that he \u201cdeveloped Microsoft Teams product and engineering team from scratch and launched the beta within 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI led a team of over 400 engineers in Bellevue WA, Palo Alto CA, Bangalore India, Stockholm Sweden and Prague Czech Republic,\u201d Thakkar said, referring to Microsoft Teams. Responsibilities included product architecture as well as the \u201centire engineering team [and] site reliability engineering,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he was promoted to corporate vice president of Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business engineering. He left Microsoft in 2018 to become the CTO and head of engineering for financial services giant MSCI Inc.<\/p>\n

At MSCI, Thakkar led the technology and data functions for all product lines and enterprise operations at MSCI, overseeing a global team of approximately 4,000 technologists, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

Read: OpenAI in talks for $60 billion investment from Amazon, Nvidia and Microsoft\u00a0(January 29, 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon Quick Suite, the company\u2019s new AI-powered digital workspace for AWS is designed to help businesses and users find insights, automate tasks, and take actions across enterprise applications.<\/p>\n

Launched in October, it unifies several AI capabilities into a single experience, stemming from the integration of Amazon Q Business and Amazon Quick Sight.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining MSCI, he served as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, leading software engineering for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business.<\/p>\n

He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian American engineering innovator and Microsoft Teams founder and engineering innovator Jigar Thakkar has joined Amazon Web Services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3468,2334,61,135442,60,80],"class_list":["post-279829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-ie","tag-indian-american","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}