About

David Houlding is a highly experienced and accomplished professional with over 30 years of relevant experience. He currently serves as the Director of Healthcare Experiences at Microsoft Azure, where he leads an expert team and program to accelerate key healthcare partners of Microsoft with Azure, the Azure Marketplace, and GTM jumpstart. His responsibilities include providing cloud, privacy, security, compliance, blockchain, and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies to healthcare partners worldwide who serve the provider, payer, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences segments. David has successfully led the onboarding to Azure cloud and the Azure Marketplace of 100+ top healthcare partners of Microsoft representing $1B of Azure use. He has also established their transactable presence on the Azure Marketplace, enabling rapid procurement, provisioning, and deployment of solutions worldwide, and completed GTM partnership jumpstart with Microsoft, including co-marketing and co-selling to catalyze growth. David is also a thought leader for the healthcare industry globally, with strong communications, public speaking, and social media presence with strong follower networks on both LinkedIn and Twitter, and for both healthcare and cybersecurity. He has a LinkedIn SSI score up to 94 and is consistently within the top 10 across Microsoft. He has presented keynotes, sessions, panel discussions at numerous major industry conferences, including HIMSS, ISMG Healthcare Security, ISMG Fraud, Distributed Health, and many more. David has extensive interviews, videos, podcasts, webinars, articles, blogs in major journals, including the Journal of Precision Medicine, Healthcare Info Security, Blockchain in Healthcare Today, Data Breach Today, Health Data Management, VentureBeat, Healthcare Technology Online, and Becker's Healthcare. David has served as an advisor to the Lifeboat Foundation, where he completed thought leadership with this group, including ethical considerations around blockchain in healthcare. He has also served as an advisor to the British Blockchain Association, responsible for advising the BBA on blockchain, DLT, strategies, healthcare use cases, and blockchain concerns, including privacy, security, compliance, performance, interoperability, deployment, and other aspects. David's educational background includes an M.A.Sc. in Data Compression and Digital Signal Processing from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Natal. His tech stack includes Blockchain, AI, Azure, and dotNET. Overall, David is a highly skilled and experienced professional who has made significant contributions to the healthcare industry and is a thought leader in the field.