Peter Pouliot has been a key leader in driving support for Microsoft's virtualization platform, Hyper-V within the Openstack ecosystem. In 2011 while with SuSE he deployed the first Openstack cloud on Hyper-V. Now with Microsoft he has successfully organized a community to support the ongoing development of the Hyper-V compute driver for Openstack, as well as provided leadership and guidence for the successful reintegration of the Hyper-V/Nova code back into the Folsom codebase after being removed in the Essex release.