Eyal Itskovich
Director - Strategic Acquisition Hyperscale, AI Infrastructure, MicrosoftEyal Itskovich is a seasoned strategy and business operations professional, expert in combining strategy, analytics, and execution. Eyal loves solving complex business problems, transforming data into business insights, leading large teams, and driving change.
Eyal is currently the lead global data center strategy at Microsoft Azure, operating at the largest scale on the planet. This includes scoping, design, and implementation of new Azure regions and data centers globally, optimizing product-market fit, and strategic client pursuit.
Eyal joined Azure from LinkedIn, where he partnered with engineering leadership to develop strategy and drive results through setting clear objectives, making data driven decisions, and operational excellence. His track record includes developing business strategy that enabled LinkedIn’s infrastructure growth at scale by 5x, and helped determine next generation data center architecture, compute, storage, and network infrastructure that has been implemented in all LinkedIn data centers.