Beat Weissenberger

Leading a team of Channel Sales Experts and Partner Business Development Manager for Microsoft in Switzerland. Our mission is to transform our partners services portfolio and co-sell highly automated, innovative services based on our Microsoft Cloud platform and enrich with AI services. Sales results are achieved in a close relationship with our Digital Sales teams.

Business Manager for Microsoft' hosting business and Partner Development Manager for selected Service Providers and Global System Integrators. Drive business transformation in the partners including business model innovation, financial planning and organizational change management. During a 12 months period I focused solely on Swisscom - the leading Swiss Telco - which resulted in long-term strategic partnership contract.

Team Lead of four senior product marketing managers with individual workload specific product responsibilities (Server Products, Cloud Infrastructure, Data & AI). Accountable for budget planning, program execution, enablement and sales support for all Azure Cloud services and Server products in Switzerland.

Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft SQL Server involved the business planning for the Swiss subsidiary including financial planning, sales & marketing, enablement, public presentations and working with Microsoft channel partners.

The responsibility of this role was extended with new workstreams in the area of Business Intelligence, Big Data and Analytics. As part of this role I successfully launched Microsoft Power BI in Switzerland.

Managed a team of diverse channel sales professionals, set channel strategies and achieved sales and profit goals by selling goods and services and building customer partnerships.