Ron Markezich, CIO and vice president, managed solutions at Microsoft enjoys a unique position in the industry. As CIO, he is not just responsible for overseeing the IT infrastructure and management at the world’s leading software maker, but also gets to test and try most of the software that Microsoft lines up prior to release.

He is also in charge of Microsoft’s fledgling managed solutions business, which would mark the software maker’s foray into offering Software as a service to customers. This business is still in its pilot stage and the company hopes to roll it a few years from now. Read more about the Interview here.