Javier Soltero is a Puerto Rican entrepreneur and executive. Previously, he was the Corporate Vice President advisor to Rajesh Jha at

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

. Prior to Microsoft, he was co-founder and CEO of Acompli, after being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at

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. Most recently, he was General Manager and Vice President of

Google Workspace Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...

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until July 2022.

Career

Soltero received a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems and Industrial Management from

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

in 1997. Upon graduation, he started work at

Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was o ...

where he helped build internet infrastructure technologies. He then became a senior engineer at BackFlip.com before co-founding Hyperic in 2004. Hyperic provided monitoring and management software for all types of web applications and was acquired by

SpringSource Spring (previously known as SpringSource) was a software company founded by Rod Johnson, who also created the Spring Framework, an open-source application framework for enterprise Java applications. VMware purchased Spring for $420 million in ...

in 2009. As a result, Soltero became the CTO of Managed Products at SpringSource. SpringSource was eventually acquired by VMWare for $420 million. Soltero co-founded Acompli in 2013, with Kevin Henrikson and JJ Zhuang where he served as the company's CEO. Acompli was a company which built email mobile applications and raised $7.3 million in venture capital financing. Acompli was acquired by

for $200 million in 2014, and is now Outlook Mobile. In 2019, Soltero joined Google to lead G Suite (now Google Workspace).

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