Brian Arbogast

Mr. Brian Arbogast is Vice President at MSN Communications, Inc. and Investment Committee Member at W Fund Management LLC.
Mr. Arbogast worked at Microsoft from 1986 to 2010.
From 2000 to 2010, he served as a Corporate Vice President, responsible for delivering the mobile services strategy, platform, and experiences for Windows Live and Windows Mobile, as well as the strategy, platform, and integrated services for network operators.
These R&D efforts spanned campuses in the U.S., China, Israel, and Portugal.
Prior to 2000, he managed the teams which developed the core technologies behind Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger, calendar, contacts, storage, VoIP, and online identity services when these were the highest-scale services in the world, growing from 150m to over 500m users.
Earlier roles included running Visual Studio from 1997 to 2000 and Access from 1994 to 1997, and working as a lead developer on Access 1.0.
Mr. Arbogast joined Northwest Energy Angels in 2010 and has been an investor in the clean energy sector since 2007.
He is a founding board member of the Progress Alliance of Washington, which organizes a community of donors to make strategic investments in progressive social and political change in WA state, and of Fuse, which uses online communications and grassroots organizing to give people a stronger voice in Washington State government.
He is currently an angel investor and advisor, working mainly with early-stage clean tech companies.