Steve Winter

Steve Winter is the Vice President for State and Local Government and Education at Planet Technologies. Steve is responsible for driving the Microsoft corporate strategy for these business segments. Steve also serves as the business lead for Eastern US revenue. Under his leadership, Planet has been awarded Microsoft’s State and Local Government Partner of the Year an unprecedented five times. Steve speaks regularly on the transformation of Government and Education IT at Key Notes, the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and various local conferences.

Under Steve’s direction, Planet developed a series of Solution Accelerators targeting Criminal Investigation, Inspection, and Management functions of Governments and Education organizations. These applications and others like them are the cornerstones to Planet’s burgeoning SaaS business. The adoption of these services is changing the responsiveness of the government to its constituents. Prior to Planet, Steve founded eQuest Technologies — a leading provider of Microsoft-based services to the worldwide hosting community. This organization was later acquired by Planet Technologies and was the launching point for Planet’s cloud business leveraging Steve’s vast cloud domain knowledge and leadership.