Primary Job Title General Manager, Copilot Accelerator Primary Organization 
Microsoft
Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Niki
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Nikesh Parekh is the General Manager of the Copilot Accelerator team and was the formner Dynamics 365 Finance Insights & Chief Strategy Officer for Finance Business Applications. at Microsoft. Nikesh was the co-foudner and CEO of AI for Procurement start-up Suplari which was purchased by Microsoft in 2021. He attended Harvard Business School
and Harvard University.
Nikesh Parekh is a product leader in social media, performance media, lead generation, enterprise Saas solutions, and AI in the Finance industry.
Nikesh Parekh is the VP of New Ventures at Trulia, which was recently purchased by Zillow for $2.5Bn. As VP of New Ventures, Nikesh manages Trulia's rentals, mortgage and new construction businesses and is one of three revenue owners at the company. Previously, Nikesh was CEO of ActiveRain and the EVP of Product at Market Leader. Market Leader is the leading provder of Saas solutions to the real estate industry and was purchased by Trulia for $380m in 2013. At Market Leader, Nikesh managed products from CRM, social media and consumer web sites like RealEstate.com. ActiveRain is the largest blogging network and professional social network in real estate. ActiveRain was purchased by Market Leader in October of 2011.
Prior to ActiveRain and Market Leader, Nikesh was CEO of a cleantech company called Bio Architecture Lab that had developed technology to convert seaweed into low cost sugars for biofuel and renewable chemical development. Bio Architecture Lab raised $35m in financing in a very challenging financial environment and built a 40 person company located in San Francisco and Chile.
For five years, Nikesh was an executive at one of the leaders in online marketing for the real estate industry called HouseValues. Nikesh helped grow the company to 600 employees, 2 locations, and nearly $100m in revenue over a five year period. Nikesh joined in 2002 and ran product, business development, consumer marketing, and corporate development. In 2005 and 2006, I started and ran our mortgage division.
