Joseph recently joined Microsoft to head the newly formed Cloud Machine Learning Services and Tools organization in C&E. Prior to Microsoft, he was the VP for Global Inventory Platform and CTO of the core retail business at Amazon. In this role he had responsibility for the science and software behind Amazon’s supply chain and order fulfillment systems, as well as the central Machine Learning group which he built and led. During his 9 years at Amazon, he managed a variety of teams including forecasting, inventory, supply chain and fulfillment, fraud prevention systems, data warehouse and a novel data-driven seller lending business. Joseph is passionate about Machine Learning and its applications and has been active in the field since 1990.