Vice President
MSN Canada

As Vice President of MSN Canada, Owen Sagness directs the Canadian team and is responsible for maintaining the leadership position of MSN's award-winning software and services including MSN Messenger, MSN Hotmail and MSN Search. Additionally, Mr. Sagness is instrumental in leading MSN's strategic alliance with Bell Canada, including the recently launched co-branded portal, Sympatico.MSN.ca, and Sympatico with MSN Premium.

An employee of Microsoft Canada since 1996, and a current member of Microsoft's Canadian Leadership Team, Mr. Sagness brings in-depth industry knowledge and management expertise to his new role in guiding MSN Canada's corporate vision within Canada.

Formerly Director, Public Sector, at Microsoft Canada, Mr. Sagness was responsible for Microsoft's Public Sector activities across Canada, including Federal, Provincial, and Municipal Governments, Healthcare and Education. Prior to this position, Mr. Sagness was Director, Enterprise Commercial Sales, responsible for Microsoft Canada's non-vertical, medium, and large enterprise customer accounts.

Mr. Sagness holds a Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. The father of three children, he enjoys recreational computing, gardening, photography and hiking.