Jenny Lay-Flurrie (CELA) is Corporate Vice President and Head of Microsoft’s Trusted Technology Group, where she leads efforts to embed trust, responsibility, and accountability across the company. Her team brings together expertise across accessibility, privacy, digital safety, human rights, risk, resilience, responsible AI, and governance. She has three decades of experience aligning innovation with societal expectations and working with customers, governments, and industry partners to support responsible technology adoption at global scale.
Jenny Lay-Flurrie (CELA) joined Microsoft in 2005 in London to work on Hotmail and has since held roles spanning accessibility and other areas across Microsoft products and services. She led Microsoft’s accessibility strategy and founded the Disability Employee Resource Group early in her Microsoft career.
She identifies as deaf and disabled and has long advocated for accessibility and disability inclusion.
She holds a B.Mus. in Classical Music, an MBA, and an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering and serves on the boards of Disability:IN and Team Gleason. Her recognitions include being named a White House Disability Employment Champion of Change in 2014, one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2017, and to Forbes’ Future of Work 50 in 2023.
