Natalie Gibralter is a mother, wife, daughter, and product leader.

Hi, I’m Natalie. I love building products, teams, and communities. I am passionate about democratizing access and opportunities, leveling playing fields, diversity of thought, and the power of human connection and I enjoy working on products and ideas that attempt to contribute in these ways. So does my husband, Aaron, and in what little spare time we have you will find the two of us tinkering away together on various ideas.

My career has largely been shaped by entrepreneurial and intra-preneurial pursuits in technology and social impact. I joined both KIND (www.kindsnacks.com) and Squarespace (www.Squarespace.com) when they were each early stage start ups and helped them grow to become multi-billion dollar public companies. I founded and ran a non-profit called TrailTalks focused on developing skills and opportunites for cross-cultural connection among young Israeli backpackers traveling abroad.

I currently spend the majority of my time focused on my role as VP of AI Innovation at Microsoft, working across the portfolio of products on ‘Horizon 2’ product and platform investments that will help people and organization achieve meaningfully more with AI. I choose to do this work because I care deeply that the AI tools and agents we are creating will be expansive for humanity. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to shape these tools to genuinely augment human capability, and how to ensure AI expands opportunity for all of humanity rather than a concentrated few.

And outside of work, I continue to be involved involved in community building and bridge building across communities. I’ve been spending time thinking about how to engage the youth of NYC in shared service as a medium for building connection across communities… if this is something you are thinking about too, I’d love to chat.

My most important role is being a mother to two curly-headed kids who have inherited their father’s love of slapstick humor and my penchant for asking lots of questions.