Dave Drach

Managing Director, Microsoft Emerging Business Team

Dave Drach is a Managing Director for the Microsoft Emerging Business Team. Dave works with venture capitalists and early stage start-ups helping them to develop their businesses and effectively partner with Microsoft. Recently Dave has been actively engaged with SaaS companies in the ERP, CRM, SCM, BI and Human Resource areas, both on the Microsoft platform and on other platforms. Dave has 6 years of experience navigating through the Microsoft development organization as a Product Unit Manager.

Dave’s previous roles include V.P. CTO of FRx Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft and General Manager for Platform and Technology at Great Plains Software. Dave has participated in numerous acquisitions, and integrations, as a buyer, and as an executive in an acquired company. Dave managed enterprise level systems implementations for 3 years at Ernst & Young and built numerous, large scale, enterprise solutions over 8 years at Boeing Computer Services. Dave holds a graduate degree in business and information systems technology from Carnegie Mellon University, and an undergraduate engineering degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.