Sharon is a Senior Partner Channel Manager-Cloud Practice Program Owner. Her passion is to create and implement strategies to achieve corporate partner business goals. As a senior program manager, she owns the design and implementation of partner programs, incentives, and economic models which establish Microsoft as the first-choice provider for Cloud Services. Her role as manager is to build unique strategies by leveraging quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches to identify and develop partnership opportunities. I collaborate with product and marketing teams to translate business and product strategy into partner strategy. The team of professionals she has built, recruiting and nurture an ever-expanding group of cloud-based clients. In the two years, she has led this team, there has been zero turnover of team members and their performance on behalf of Microsoft has exceeded their performance on behalf of Microsoft has exceeded their performance on their other accounts by 30%. Previous employment experience includes identifying, structuring, and owning the performance of portfolios of investments for institutional clients, leading research of key market trends and disruptive forces in the industry, and developing insights and recommendations to management for new business and areas of investment.