Peggy Johnson is executive vice president, Business Development at Microsoft.
She is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella deal maker.
She and her team were key in the company's enormous $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. But she's done lots of other deals, too. For instance last year she helped the company establish an artificial intelligence center in Montreal with the acquisition of a startup, Maluuba, she orchestrated an investment in the AI incubator Element AI, and led a collaboration with pioneer Yoshua Bengio.
She also established Microsoft Ventures, the company's corporate VC fund.
And she's on the boards of international health organization PATH and Live Nation Entertainment.
Johnson cut her teeth as an electrical engineer coming to Microsoft from Qualcomm.