Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader. http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/249299_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader. Corporate Vice President of Global Foundation Services, Debra Chrapaty, is in charge of a worldwide team that runs the foundation servers for Microsoft’s data centers, networks, infrastructure and server architecture as part of our software + services strategy. Charles and Jennifer, in their on-going WM_IN Technology journey, talk to this energetic, dynamic, smart woman who fulfilled her childhood dream of being on the cover of Information Week (read geek). She used to be the CTO for the National Basketball Association (NBA) . . . and that’s just the beginning of where this successful woman gets interesting. Check it! en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:21:15 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:21:15 GMT Rev9 Re: Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader. This was a really interesting interview.  It's good to hear that the MS VPs get along.

The story of how Debra navigated her career to become a corporate VP is really worth listening to.

My favorite bit is this:

Jennifer:  What were you hired in as?  Director, GM, VP...?
Debra:  Corporate VP.
             Ah, you're smiling ... how did I do that?
laughter
Jennifer:  Pray tell!
Charles: Yeah ...
more laughter
Debra (serious):  Because I am one.  Cool

posted by Richard.Hein

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094321010000000 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:21:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094321010000000 Richard.Hein Re: Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader.

Sending an e-mail out to everyone on your team each week is a great idea that I wish more executives and managers would  emulate.

Cool

posted by raymond

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094321130000000 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:21:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094321130000000 raymond Re: Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader.
Rock on, Debra.
C

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094321250000000 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:22:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094321250000000 Charles Re: Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader.
Charles wrote:
After this interview, both Jennifer and I wanted to go work for Debra! What a great leader. I hope she rises through the ranks to become our first (dare I say it) CEO! Yeah.

Rock on, Debra.
C


Although playing fill-in-the-missing-word is fun, I think I'll just assume you missed out a "woman" somewhere in there.

Although I'm sure there are alternatives which would fit just as well.

Or is MS operating rudderless at the moment Tongue Out

posted by Massif

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094640570000000 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:14:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633094640570000000 Massif Re: Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader. Really enjoyed this interview.  Especially the section when you all talked about Datacenters and measuring them in megawatts instead of square feet.
I wish there was more information on the MS datacenters to help counter the whole Google rocks!!!! and their datacenter is teh b0mb!!!!

Very very smart woman...

posted by j0217995

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posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633330621280000000 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:15:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/WM_IN/Debra-Chrapaty-A-Company-Import-A-Great-Leader#c633330621280000000 Minh