Expertise: Microsoft Organization and Partnering Strategies

As President, Jeff Parker oversees DIRECTIONS’ publishing, seminar, and consulting businesses. Jeff is also an expert on the Microsoft organization and manages production of DIRECTIONS’ quarterly OrgChart service that tracks the names, titles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships of more than 700 top Microsoft executives.

Prior to cofounding DIRECTIONS in April 1992, Jeff worked in investment banking as a vice president in the New York City office of Sonnenblick Goldman. Before that, he was an analyst and CPA in the Silicon Valley office of Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Jeff holds a BS in Accounting from the California State University at Fresno and an MBA from Wharton.