Jay Fluegel is Vice President of Product Development at Event Innovation. In this role, Fluegel shepherds the product roadmap and leads the development team. His responsibilities include crafting detailed product requirements, managing a team of over 50 developers, and defining the architectural direction of the company's platform and products.
Prior to Event Innovation, Fluegel spent ten years at Microsoft in product development, management and strategic planning roles for some of the largest online services on the planet. He played a primary role in architecting and launching "Windows Live", combining the best of MSN web and Windows PC experiences into a single offering. As an international suite of services, Windows Live caters to over 430 million users with 33 languages in over 50 countries including Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger, Spaces and Events. He led strategic partnerships enabling Ebay, ESPN, Citibank, Match.com and several others to achieve their primary goals and business objectives.
Fluegel began his career as Director of Business Operations at Jump Networks which developed the Web's first free, completely-connected calendar, email and address book service, and was later acquired by Microsoft to bring that technology to Hotmail.
Jay Fluegel obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and a MBA in Technology Management from The University of Washington.
I'm Jay Fluegel, a '98 grad from the CALS school. I spent 10 years in Microsoft working on strategy and design of social software. I worked in Hotmail, Messenger, Spaces which is their big social networking product and was their fastest growing service ever because of the phenomenon of social netw...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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