Ed Essey
- Role
- Director of Business Value, Microsoft Garage at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ed Essey
As Senior Director of Business Value in Microsoft\'s Garage program, I leverage over a…
Experience
Director of Business Value, Microsoft Garage
Jan 2014 — Present
I head new growth projects in the Garage, Microsoft\'s program for cultural transformation. Founder and Head, Garage Intrapreneurs program * Establishing new Horizon 3 project accelerator for employee led ideas.* Established Microsoft Incubation Leads Council that assembled everyone in Microsoft incubation ecosystem into a co-working group.* Led successful pilot to generate new horizon 3 business - coached the grand prize winning projects to in-market experimental success, and internal blank check level funding.* Key member of team who delivered the world’s largest private Hackathon 5 consecutive times. Latest Hackathon had hackers and 2100+ projects. Personally bucketed all projects into three horizons framework for future value delivery. Founder and Head, Experimental Outlet * Released 130+ projects, with hands on lean startup and grow hacking coaching.* Expanded The Microsoft Garage as the official path for Microsoft to ship incubation and experimental projects outside of Microsoft. https://garage.microsoft.com * Developed Microsoft Garage brand that stands for experimentation.* Won One Microsoft marketing award from Microsoft\'s CMO.* Created several new independent go to market and launch paths for Microsoft projects of all types - including many of the first android, ios, open source, cross-platform browser extensions, and maker projects.* Worked across all functions of the company to establish ambidextrous policies to support experimental projects more quickly than legacy business lines-adding launch agility to the whole company. Head, Core Garage * Managed lean, highly effective team * Expanded active chapters by over 2x in a few months. Placing chapters on 6 continents.* Led the launch of the Maker Garage in Redmond.
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