Cynthia Peng is a Career mentor at Northwestern University Alumni Asssociation. She possess expertise in marketing, cloud computing, strategy. Colleagues describe her as "A remarkable asset to Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise division. Cynthia is a steadfast, high-impact senior leader who has set the bar very high across our company. I've had the privilege of working with Cynthia over the past year, designing and instituting global programs that scale and amplify business impact in close collaboration with our subsidiaries. Her results have been notable and many times, record-breaking. Some examples include the tremendous growth in our Developer audience division from the Executive Briefing Center programs she designed for our tier-1 events as well as the record-setting reach and downloads during this year’s Visual Studio 2017 launch. Cynthia has a unique ability to take a complex business imperative, a white canvas and produce exceptional results. Amongst our team, she’s that go-to person our Leadership team counts on, again and again. She is also highly regarded across the company. A testament of this has been her ability to lead by unifying a sizeable and diverse team of 200+ employees to work together through strategy and execute on common goals through an impeccable rhythm of business. Cynthia is also one of the smartest and most passionate people I know when it comes to advocating for high-quality output and for our field. This is complemented by her thoughtfulness and results-oriented drive regardless of the challenge. I recommend Cynthia as a senior leader, director with the highest regard." and "Nothing makes life easier for a salesperson than counting on a fantastic marketing partner. In my responsibility for worldwide sales of Visual Studio, this is who I have in Cynthia Peng. Cynthia has supported me numerous times to ensure that the messaging I ask my sales teams to convey is crisp, compelling, impactful and customer centric. She has been my lifeline many times to marketing organization in Microsoft Corp to marketing professionals in our subsidiary office. She strives to make every interaction mutually beneficial and to top it all off, she's a fun colleague. I know that Cynthia will continue to have this level of impact in any job or company she works for. "