Joy Chik

Joy Chik is the Corporate Vice President, Identity Division at Microsoft. Her team is responsible for Active Directory, Azure Activity Directory, Microsoft Account (MSA), Microsoft Graphy, Identity Protection, and Identity Management Suites. Joy joined Microsoft in June 1998. She started as a software design engineer in the Windows NT Terminal Server group and worked on features such as Remote Desktop Protocol. Windows 2000 was her first release. She became a development lead in 2001. She was responsible for delivering the Remote Desktop features for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In 2005, she took on the Development Manager role for the entire Terminal Server and VDI business. She has shipped all versions of Windows Client and Server releases from XP, Server 2003 all the way to current Windows 10 and Server 2016. Prior to joining Microsoft full time, Joy interned at Microsoft with the Exchange team in 1996. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1998.