Eduardo Kassner

About Eduardo Kassner

I am a passionate and experienced executive and board member with a strong business focus, recognized for transforming global direct and indirect technical sales and consulting practices, product teams in the Cloud, Data and AI services and solution industries. With over thirty-five years of experience, my emphasis is on solid collaboration and relationship building, driving, healthy, diverse, and inclusive organizations that focus on high customer satisfaction and revenue growth. Led the creation of the Cloud Architect role in Microsoft, drove the Microsoft pre-sales cloud technical transformation. Then became the Partner Organization CTO @ Microsoft, leading the 400K Microsoft partners worldwide in the transformation of their technical sales, consulting, and delivery teams from on premises to the cloud. Then led the cloud solution architecture team that drove the growth of Microsoft top 100 global partners. Currently I am the Chief Data Officer and GM for Data & AI for the Software and Digital Platform Division. My team leads the Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence innovation that Microsoft is driving across the Software ISVs, Digital Platforms and Digital Natives companies across the US. We have developed and deployed in production over 700 Generative Solutions in the past 3 years, generating US $1.7B + in Revenue. I am as passionate for the growth and impact that Data and Artificial Intelligence is driving across our society, as he is about the Ethics in AI and the Democratization of Data via Innovation. I am a published author and commonly speaks in conferences worldwide on the topics of: Artificial Intelligence, Data Innovation, Cloud & Digital Evolution, architecture, patterns and best practices, public / hybrid / private cloud strategies, and the overall Microsoft Platform. • Define strategy for Microsoft customers & partners to develop their AI, Data and Cloud capabilities • Lead the Cloud Solution Architects that supports Microsoft\'s ISV, Digital Native, Software Platforms and global partners • Lead the innovative cloud transformation profitability and talent research • Synthesize insight and influence Microsoft\'s engineering, marketing and sales planning • Lead the Microsoft Partner Cloud events and technical advanced skills development • Directed and influenced the design of the Azure Microsoft Certified Professional programs • Lead and foster the creation of our partners technical communities

Experience

1. Senior Advisor

   Generation

   Apr 2022 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   I am honored to contribute to the mission of Generation: You Employed (generation.org) as a Senior Advisor to the CEO and Board. An innovative and incredibly impactful global non-profit with a mission to support learners of all ages to be trained and placed in careers that were previously beyond their reach. Generation works closely with employers to understand their talent needs and requirements, as well as work with early-in-career candidates, to define the program that will prepare them to be successful for the jobs defined with those employers. The results of Generation highlight their proven method to build training bootcamps that usually lasts weeks, and then drive candidates to employer\'s positions with a highly successful percentage of employability (65% still employed one year after placement), retention and performance (84% employed within 90 days after program completion).

Education

• Boston University

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Infrastructure Management
• Architecture
• Solution Selling
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Consulting
• Automation
• Management Consulting
• Business Strategy
• Object Oriented Design
• Engineering Management
• Sales Management
• Forecasting
• Marketing
• Campaigns
• Hardware Architecture
• Enterprise Software
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Computing
• Solution Development
• IT Outsourcing
• Outsourcing Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Thinking Outside the Box
• Business Intelligence
• Strategy
• Pre-Sales
• Data Center
• IT Strategy
• IT Service Management
• IT Management
• Product Management
• Leadership
• Outsourcing
• Product Marketing
• Virtualization
• Management
• Saas
• Vmware
• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture