TORONTO – Irwin Rodrigues has joined AirIQ Inc. as vice president, marketing and sales. Rodrigues will provide marketing and sales leadership for two of AirIQ’s business divisions: Consumer Vehicle Solutions and Marine Vessel Management.

Anne Taylor, vice president, Commercial Division, will continue to drive new business across all vehicle fleet market verticals.

Rodrigues spent the past six years at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Wash. He was most recently director of the Microsoft Project Business, where he was active in developing and executing global strategies for products, marketing, sales, and partners. He also spent three years in Microsoft’s Mobile Devices Division, where he drove the launch of the first Microsoft Smartphone, focused primarily on the software platform and third party developers. Prior to his employment with Microsoft, Rodrigues worked in the venture capital industry and prior to that spent four years in management consulting.