Crews of Microsoft MVP Program

NOTE: This post is based on LinkedIn. Updated in Mar, 2026

Management

Kim Sanchez — Director of Business Partnership, MVP Program

MVP Community PM

• Soyoung Lee— Team Leader of APAC
• Rie Moriguchi — PM of Japan and Africa
• Tina Stenderup Larsen — PM of Nordic and Denmark
• Cristina Gonzalez Herrero — PM of Spain and Portugal
• Alice Piras — PM of German
• Jumana Nsier Hakim — PM of Israel

US PM

• Rie Merritt — Principal PM of US
• Betsy Weber — PM of US
• Kathleen Khoo — Senior CPM of US
• Justin Garrett — PM of US

Ex-staff

NOTE: Some are still MSFT staff but move to anther team

• Claire Smyth — PM of UK (Left in Jan, 2026)
• Francisco Ramon Diaz-Ortega — PM of US (Left in 2025)
• Elizabeth Pappalardo — PM of APAC (Left in July, 2025)
• Martine Thiphaine — PM of France (Retired in June, 2025)
• Christina Liang — PM of China (Left in June, 2025)
• Martin Tatar — PM of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary [Left in Sep, 2024]
• Deepak Rajendran — PM of India, South Asia, Middle East (Left in Mar, 2024)
• Kerry Herger — PM of the US (Left in 2023)
• Annie Mathew— PM of Singapore (Left in 2022)
• Lana Montgomery— Director of MVP program (Left in 2022)
• Karen Juhl — Director of Developer Audience (Left in 2021)
• Simran Chaudhry— PM of Canada (Left in 2018)
• Reneata Chang — PM of Taiwan (Left in 2018)
• Viktor Sharohin — PM of Ukraine (Left)