Jason Horowitz

Jason Horowitz is Director of Business Operations for the Client Software Group at Sun Microsystems. Starting in 1997, he played a key role in expanding Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s global product development activities. In 2004, he was a founder of Sun's St. Petersburg (Russia) software development center. He has also been involved in global strategy & planning, managing Sun's Prague operation and running an outsourced software engineering program in three locations in Russia. Prior to joining Sun, Jason worked for the U.S. State Department as a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service. From 1993-96 in Moscow, he analyzed the development of the emerging market economy in Russia and helped to manage US economic assistance to that country. Jason has Bachelors and Masters degrees from Columbia University and UCLA respectively.