It is as soon as once more my honor to announce our Microsoft Partner of the Year Award winners and finalists. Over the previous yr, our international and various associate ecosystem has supported prospects of their digital transformation with Microsoft Cloud purposes, providers, gadgets, and AI innovation. Across the cloud and edge, you might have delivered unmatched worth and helped organizations develop, run, and handle their companies in new methods. The tales acknowledged with these awards are a showcase of your success in creating revolutionary options for our prospects on the Microsoft Cloud.
We will have fun these excellent achievements along with all our companions throughout the globe at Microsoft Inspire 2023, which we’re internet hosting from July 18–19. Visit the Inspire web site to view occasion particulars and register.
Our companions are reworking to deal with evolving buyer wants, responding to their elevated demand for the cloud, and delivering IP and providers that allow innovation, productiveness, and buyer success. Along the way in which, we’ve seen companions adapt to the alternatives offered by new know-how — from revolutionary makes use of of AI in each trade, to options enabling industries to function extra sustainably — to drive international affect. Through the power of our collaboration, our associate group and monitor file of success has continued to develop: this yr we obtained greater than 4,200 nominations throughout 106 international locations/areas for the Partner of the Year Awards.
Your partnership is a key ingredient to the success of our continued mission to empower each individual and group on the planet to attain extra, and is why we come collectively and have fun this group yearly. Together, we’re extra agile, ingenious, and inclusive with our options. Thank you on your ongoing affect and creativity, which preserve us on our trade’s vanguard.
Congratulations to this yr’s winners and finalists, and to all our companions who’ve demonstrated innovation, dedication to their prospects, and constant supply of significant, accessible, inclusive, and sustainable options across the globe. We stay up for just about gathering as a group to acknowledge and have fun your achievements from the previous yr, and to share new alternatives to develop and develop your enterprise.
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Nicole believes in empowering folks to drive progress. She works to assist companions unlock the just about limitless energy of the Microsoft Cloud to offer options that create new worth for purchasers.
Prior to main GPS, Nicole led the Microsoft Device Partner Sales group, the place she efficiently drove enterprise progress and innovation throughout the machine ecosystem by creating methods with essentially the most revolutionary authentic machine and gear producers, silicon companions, together with resellers and distributors. Under her management, the group delivered alternative and progress throughout Microsoft’s machine and edge associate ecosystem spanning Windows PCs, IOT, Collaboration gadgets, Servers and Mixed Reality.
With greater than 25 years of gross sales expertise in tech, Nicole’s innate curiosity has led her from a number of years in telecommunications, to main tech start-ups as CEO, to driving Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar business associate enterprise at this time. Nicole joined Microsoft in 2007 and served in a number of roles within the US, Asia and EMEA.
Nicole is a proud Los Angeleno dwelling within the Pacific Northwest. In her private time, Nicole is a foodie, and loves cooking household recipes, or crushing a Peloton experience. She likes to journey and expertise the native tradition and meals within the cities and international locations she visits.