John Nisi

Board term: 2022-present

John Nisi is the chief commercial officer of Peregrine, which creates technology to help public safety agencies and commercial organizations make data-driven decisions, power operations, and maintain strong community relationships. 

Nisi previously spent 27 years at Microsoft, most recently as the Partner VP & Head of Growth for the Strategic Missions and Technologies division. In other roles, he served as COO of Azure Data and Artificial Intelligence, where he was responsible for the U.S. business, marketing, and operations across the cloud and infrastructure portfolio of products. Formerly Worldwide Services CTO for Data and Artificial Intelligence for Microsoft Services, Nisi was responsible for technical strategy, delivery quality, delivery readiness, and technical sales support for the D&AI Services organization.  

Over three decades, Nisi has worked in strategic technology planning, business unit development, go-to-market and sales planning, project and product management, and system engineering strategies. He has been the executive sponsor for enterprise collaboration deployments including global internet portals, federal secure extranet incident response portals, pharmaceutical collaboration solutions, and The White House intranet portal for compliance and security.  

Nisi is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he received a B.S. in Systems Engineering with minors in computer science and business administration, and he earned an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.