KD Hallman

K.D. is an accredited investor with E8 and Alliance of Angels, a strategic advisor and board member for environmental startups, and a Northwest Conservation fellow. She is on the national council for Earthjustice and the Conservation Committee for The Nature Conservancy. K.D. is a retired Microsoft vice president with a passion for addressing environmental issues.

K.D. brings to the environmental space the experiences, talents, and skills developed during her 35+ year career in the global software industry. During her nearly 25-year tenure at Microsoft, K.D. held both software and/or hardware leadership positions in Office, Windows, Visual Studio, and Research. K.D. served as a corporate technical strategist where she was an advisor to Microsoft’s CEO’s was responsible for setting Microsoft’s semiconductor vision, strategy, and architecture.

Among her most notable accomplishments include deal lead for various acquisitions and industry impacting efforts such as the 2010 ARM architecture license, 2015-2016 Nokia (semiconductor), and Perceptive Pixels, Inc. K.D. led the development efforts in Natural Language technology which transformed how humans interact with computers through written and spoken human languages. She has a knack for building high performing, high morale teams. She holds over 25 US and European patents.