Henry Brian Valentine (born November 28, 1959) is an American software executive and casual poker player.
[1] Upon graduating from CCC in 1979 with an associate degree, Valentine then enrolled in the University of Washington's engineering department.
[3] In his senior year at EWU, Valentine was selected to develop the software for an automated energy management and control system.
[6] As a result of his success with Exchange, he was personally asked by Steve Ballmer in 1998 to rescue the then-failing Windows 2000[7] project.
In 2006, Valentine moved to join Amazon.com[9] where he built and led the eCommerce Platform team, before leaving in early 2014.