Brad Silverberg is an American computer scientist and businessman, most noted for his work at Microsoft in 1990–1999 as Senior VP and product manager for MS-DOS, Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office.
In 1990, Silverberg left Borland to lead the personal systems division at Microsoft.
[3] At the start of his tenure, the personal systems division was already a prime moneymaker with MS-DOS, at that time sold only through OEMs.
In 1997, Silverberg was given responsibilities for Office but his principal interest remained with the Internet.
In March 2000, he led a group of former Microsoft executives to found Ignition, a venture capital firm.