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Principal Director of Program Management, Supply Chain Engineering team
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Kavita Kamani is a Partner Director of Product Management on the Supply Chain Engineering team at Microsoft. The Supply Chain Engineering team powers the Microsoft\u2019s Cloud and Device Supply Chains which bring hardware devices and cloud services to Microsoft\u2019s consumer and commercial customers. She started as a developer and moved into a PM role while pursuing her MBA at University of Washington. She loves being able to influence and define product strategy, and obsesses about customer needs. She is also an advisor to the Product Management course at the University of Washington MBA program. As a PM, she started on developer products (.NET Developer Platform), and then focused on communication, collaboration and productivity solutions for Information Workers. A few of the products where she’s left a mark are Lync\/Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. She is passionate about growing the representation of women in technology, and has been involved in driving initiatives within Microsoft and also externally with organizations such as Women in Product. On the personal front, she is married and is a mother of two young and energetic kids, and loves sports and is an avid runner, biker, skier, hiker and mountaineer. She is also a certified coach and has a coaching practice called Find Your Arete Coaching<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kavita on mentorship<\/h2>\n\n\n
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I would love to help share my experience with others and give back to UW.\n <\/path>\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Some topics I\u2019m excited to mentor students in include:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Product management<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Leadership and management<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Technology information systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Favorite books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Atomic Habits by James Clear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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