Paul Maritz, born 1955 in what was then Rhodesia, is President and General Manager of EMC Corporation's Cloud Computing division. EMC Corporation ( is a US Fortune 500 and S&P 500 Provider of information infrastructure systems software and services Cloud computing is Internet -based (" cloud " development and use of computer technology (" Computing " Maritz was a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he served on the 5-person executive management team. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer He was founder and CEO of Pi Corporation, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, which was acquired by EMC in February 2008. Warburg Pincus is a Private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
He sponsors third-world development projects and is the chairman of the board of the Grameen Foundation. Grameen Foundation, founded as Grameen Foundation USA, is a global 501(c(3 Non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works to replicate
His last position at Microsoft was as vice president of the Platforms Strategy and Developer Group. Born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he attended the University of Cape Town where he studied computer science. Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colony of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent ( Unilateral Declaration of Independence See also Great Zimbabwe National Monument. For information about the March and June 2008 presidential elections see Zimbabwean presidential election The University of Cape Town ( UCT) is a Public university located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak, in Cape Town Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Prior to working at Microsoft, he worked for Intel developing early tools to help developers write software for the then-new x86 platform. See also X86 assembly language The generic term x86 refers to the most commercially successful Instruction set architecture in the history of Personal
Paul has three children and lives with his wife in Mercer Island, Washington, USA. Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, USA The population was 22036 at the 2000 census