Robert Wahbe leads the XML Web Services team at Microsoft. The team is responsible for a broad range of distributed technologies including ASP.NET Web Services, the Web Services Development Kit, the Global XML Web Services Architecture, .NET Remoting, DCOM, and COM+. Prior to joining Microsoft, Robert was co-founder of Colusa Software, a privately-held software company acquired by Microsoft in 1996. Robert graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.