

“Reed introduces students to a broad set of course work in subjects as part of their liberal arts education.

“In my field a lot of the creative process is about finding connections across different parts of the industry that were not there,” DelBene said.

He had joined Microsoft in 1992, working on the development of several high-profile applications including Outlook, Exchange, Schedule+, messaging, and personal information-management applications, and was responsible for the development of Microsoft client and server software. Prior to his appointment, DelBene was president of the Microsoft Office division responsible for global strategy for a wide range of products including Office, Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync, and Visio. DelBene had started as a trustee at Reed in April 2013, but when President Obama tapped him to rescue the troubled Affordable Care Act website,, he resigned from all nonprofit board work because of the potential conflict of interest. Kurt DelBene returns to the board after serving as the senior adviser to the secretary of the U.S.
