Panos Periorellis is a Lead Product Manager for AI Platforms with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Science, currently driving the AI Apps ecosystem for Zoom's Custom AI Companion. He blends hands-on technical depth—having developed IP in data processing, systems management and NLP—with strategic leadership from multiple senior roles at Microsoft, where he led Azure OpenAI efforts and pioneered concepts like reasoning on streaming data. Comfortable managing large, geographically distributed programs, Panos has a track record of turning research and incubation into production features for speech, stream analytics and contact center transformation. He combines academic rigor with practical engineering, having contributed to secure policy language tooling and EU research collaborations, and is known for bridging research, product vision and delivery across cloud-scale AI services.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Panos Periorellis - Lead Product Manager, AI Platform