
Director of Product Management at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area

Director of Product Management at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
Saleel Sathé is Director of Product Mangement for Microsoft adCenter, which provides highly-targeted online advertising. Saleel manages product planning for Microsoft Search Ads, Content Ads and Display Ads. Previously he was VP of Product Management at AdReady, Inc. on online advertising start-up in Seattle. He was previously a Program Manager on the MSN Search team where he helped launch MSN’s own algorithmic web search service. Prior to joining Microsoft Saleel was a Senior Product Manager for algorithmic relevance and paid search products at AltaVista, Overture and Yahoo!. Saleel also has investment banking experience in Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston, and software engineering experience at Synopsys, a leader in Electronic Design Automation. Previously, he founded and later sold, a company manufacturing data processing machines for banks in Bombay, India.
Saleel holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Internet industry)
November 2003 — February 2008 (4 years 4 months)
Head of product management for Microsoft's contextual advertising product Content Ads and Microsoft's advertising products for publishers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Sr. Product Manager responsible for web search relevance at AltaVista. Later managed paid inclusion at AltaVista, Overture and Yahoo!
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SNPS; Computer Software industry)
February 1994 — August 1998 (4 years 7 months)
MBA , Finance , 1998 — 2000
MS , Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1994
Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
BE , Electronics Engineering , 1986 — 1990