Ralph is a Partner at Top Gun Ventures, where he works hand-in-hand with corporate clients, venture capitalists, private equity, boards, and entrepreneurs to recruit and hire proven GameChanging Leaders.Ralph is an accomplished senior executive and board member with more than 25 years of success in the technology, manufacturing, retail, public sector, and healthcare industries. His broad areas of expertise include marketing, sales, leadership strategy, operational management, nonprofits, digital transformation, customer retention, innovation, and coaching.With a focus on executive recruitment and development of GameChanging leaders, teams, and organizations, he specializes in recruiting top-performing executives, from the C-Suite to senior leadership teams. He has placed executives in technology, retail, hospitality, not-for-profits, SaaS, media, entertainment in addition to others.A Seasoned Corporate LeaderPreviously, Ralph held roles of progressive seniority in his 12 years at Microsoft. As a Vice President in various U.S. and global roles, he transformed the enterprise go-to-market functions across the company, grew the Microsoft presence and reputation in government and educational areas, and did a significant amount of work with channel and partner business models.During his prior tenure as EVP/COO at Accessline, Ralph built consumer marketing campaigns to drive adoption through Telecom wireless carriers of the single-number service offering. He was also instrumental in building joint-venture businesses and market development in Japan and Korea.Ralph holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in business management and psychology from Baldwin-Wallace University in Ohio.++++++Contact info:Ralph Youngralph@topgunventures.com425-785-0251