Joel Dehlin is an entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of the

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company.

Biography

He has held chief technology officer positions at

Instructure Instructure Holdings, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is the developer and publisher of Canvas, a web-based learning management system (LMS). History The company was founded in 2008 by ...

, O.C. Tanner Co., a human resource consulting services company and at iQor, a business process outsourcing (BPO) company. He was the chief information officer for

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(LDS Church). Prior to working for the LDS Church, he worked 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 ...

for 10 years in various roles, at

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, and at

Novell Novell, Inc. () was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as NetWare. Novell technolog ...

. While at Microsoft, Dehlin worked on the original microsoft.com product, in the mobile devices division, and as the executive producer and co-designer of

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. He was also one of the co-creators of

Microsoft PixelSense Microsoft PixelSense (formerly called Microsoft Surface) was an interactive surface computing platform that allowed one or more people to use and touch real-world objects, and share digital content at the same time. The PixelSense platform consis ...

. He has 21 patents. Dehlin co-authored the book ''Object Programming with Visual Basic 4 and Microsoft Office for Windows 95''. Dehlin was chairman of the board for Rhomobile, until the company sold to Motorola Solutions in 2011. Dehlin was also listed as one of the 2019 CEO of the Year Honorees by ''Utah Business''.

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Microsoft Awarded 10,000th Patent, Filed By Curtis Wong, Asta Roseway, Steven M. Drucker, and Joel P. Dehlin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dehlin, Joel Living people American computer businesspeople Latter Day Saints from Utah Brigham Young University alumni Microsoft employees American chief technology officers American technology chief executives Chief information officers Year of birth missing (living people)