Title Director, M&A and Business Development Europe Company Microsoft Bio Yair Snir is Microsoft’s Director of M&A and Business Development for Europe and Israel. Prior to joining Microsoft Mr. Snir was with ECI Telecom, where he was the Head of Corp. Strategy and Business Development. Previously, he was a strategy consultant for leading global and Israeli firms across a wide range of industries. Earlier in his career path, he had worked in the Bio-tech and Hi-tech industries, where he established and managed R&D groups, wrote patents and published scientific papers. Yair is a lecturer and a project faculty at the Global Consulting Practicum (GCP) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Hertzelya, Israel. Yair holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and Computational Biology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and an MBA from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Hertzelya.