Jawad Khaki oversees development of all networking and communications technologies within the Microsoft® Windows® operating system, including the information protocols and application program interfaces (APIs) used for wireline and wireless networking. Since Khaki was named vice president in April 2001, his division has worked on wireless, home and peer-to-peer networking capabilities in Windows XP, the newest version of the operating system, and Windows Server 2003, the first Microsoft server product built on the Microsoft .NET framework. Khaki’s division is focused on enabling an always-on, hassle-free dream network that is secure and scaleable. This network also will offer the necessary infrastructure components to support enterprise solutions, revolutionize the peer-to-peer Web, and enable new and exciting consumer scenarios by extending the Web to the home and the home to the Web.

Khaki combines strong technical skills with a passionate drive to make live communication via computer networks as convenient and pervasive as talking on a telephone. He has worked on networking technologies since joining Microsoft Corp. in 1989. He started as a software design engineer in what was then the Networking Business Unit and has contributed to the networking communications technologies in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. He helped spearhead the effort to add dial-up networking, wireless networking and broadband infrastructure to Windows.

Before coming to Microsoft, Khaki worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he developed UNIX operating system software. He also developed minicomputer hardware, firmware and operating system software while working for GEC Computers Ltd. in Great Britain.

Khaki holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from City University, London. A native of Tanzania, he has lived in five parts of the world and has done mentoring and other community work since he was 13.

He is president and founding director of a local community organization and is currently leading an effort to establish the first purpose-built mosque and religious educational facility for his eastside community in King County, Wash., which includes Redmond and Bellevue. He also is an active leader and teacher at community weekend programs for children and youth.

He and his wife, Kaniz, have two daughters, Ateqah and Asiya, and a son, Ali.