Avi Ardon

About Avi Ardon

I am a strategic finance and business partnership professional with over 10 years of experience in the technology industry. I lead strategic initiatives for the Azure Marketplace and Partner AI ecosystem. My work focuses on cloud consumption acceleration, KPI definition, ROI measurement, and investment prioritization, collaborating with teams across sales, engineering, marketing, operations, and legal. I also oversee budgeting, forecasting, and performance management to drive Microsoft\'s cloud and AI solutions\' global growth. My expertise lies in aligning investment with impact and advancing business and financial strategies that enable substantial business outcomes. I am motivated by fostering collaboration across diverse teams and leveraging financial insights to scale innovation. Through my contributions, we aim to enhance AI adoption, partner success, and cloud consumption worldwide.

Experience

1. Azure Marketplace & Partner Ai Lead Global Partner Solutions Finance

   Microsoft

   Apr 2023 — Present · US

   I lead strategic finance and partner strategy initiatives that drive ISV and startup growth across Microsoft’s ecosystem. My work focuses on connecting financial and operational insights to business execution, partnering with engineering, sales, and strategy teams to shape go-to-market plans, investment frameworks, and programs that scale cloud adoption and partner success. The role blends financial leadership, ecosystem and cloud platform development, and executive collaboration to accelerate growth through data-driven decision-making.Key accomplishments:Built and scaled financial and go-to-market frameworks enabling ISVs to onboard, monetize, and grow through Azure Marketplace, driving triple-digit growth in transactions and partner participation.Launched Microsoft’s agentic AI ecosystem for partners, coordinating across product, finance, and marketing to bring over a thousand new AI solutions to market.Redesigned the ISV Recruit and Growth programs, creating new benefit models and pricing structures that improved partner value and simplified incentive planning.Developed executive KPI and ROI models linking startup and ISV performance to Azure consumption, influencing senior investment decisions and cloud growth strategy.

Education

• College of Management Academic Studies, Israel

  Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration, major in Accounting

• Columbia Business School

  MBA

Skills

• Financial Analysis
• Tax
• Internal Controls
• Ifrs
• Financial Statements
• Cpa
• Microsoft Excel
• Financial Reporting
• Microsoft Office
• Financial Accounting
• Auditing
• External Audit
• Accounting
• Finance