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Christopher brings a truly global viewpoint to business and leadership having built and run successful teams in Europe, Asia and America with a major specialization in Cloud/SASE adoption. He has 30 years of experience helping enterprise customers embrace cultural and technological diversity, maximize disruptive innovation and grow high value and impactful propositions. While working at some of the industry’s most iconic brands (Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Google) Christopher has developed an exceptional skill set for building and transforming teams and businesses and being able to engage at board levels to drive transformational business and cultural propositions and outcomes.As Managing Director for the Eastern States of the US for Google Cloud he helped Google develop and grow its Enterprise propositions, sales discipline, methodologies and drive exponential growth. He was an instrumental component and executive sponsor for the most significant and groundbreaking customer engagements and partnerships. This followed 10 years at Microsoft and 11 years at Sun Microsystems in various sales, leadership and executive positions.At Palo Alto Networks he drove the design, implementation and execution of a Worldwide sales team focused on Fortune 2000 companies that included teams in AMER, EMEA and JAPAC and was accountable to producing all aspects including structural design, compensation plan, business planning and customer engagement as well as revenue attainment and growth. Specialties: Executive | Business Leadership | Sales Leadership | Enterprise Sales | Strategy | Global | Revenue | Partner Sales | Delivering Results | Cloud Vision | SASE | Cloud Solutions | Team Builder | Talent Development | Public Speaking | Cross Cultural Communication |

Listed skills include Leadership, Sales Management, Strategy, Sales Leadership, and 24 others.

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  University Of Iowa

  Business