Jesse is the director for the high-tech and electronics industries. He serves as an industry advisor and change agent for clients and within Microsoft. He has worked on digital transformation within manufacturing at Microsoft for the last decade across sales, business development and strategy. He’s focused on leveraging AI in: the factory, supply chain, products, sales and workforce transformation. He has worked on autonomous systems within the automotive and aviation industries. Prior to Microsoft, Jesse worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group and multiple engineering and production capacities at Honeywell and John Bean Technologies (Formerly FMC). He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) and an MBA in technology strategy and finance from Carnegie Mellon University.