Steve Ayres Email & Phone Number

In over 30 years of his career in business, Steve has fulfilled a variety of senior sales and leadership roles in General Management, Strategic Account Management, Enterprise Sales, Sales Management, Partner Sales and Partner/Channel Management. Highly intelligent, articulate and personable, Steve quickly builds trust and relationships with colleagues and clients and is passionate about Enterprise Software that unlocks business value for clients aligned to their business goals. He has lived and worked Globally including the U.K., South Africa, Africa, Middle East and EMEA, working for some of the world's leading Information Technology Industry's companies including Microsoft and IBM as well as owning and running his own business. From 2018 to 2023 Steve has been the Strategic Client Account Director at Microsoft UK leading a team and establishing a new Strategic Account Partnership with the BT Group focused on large and complex Enterprise solutions across the company from CEO level to key IT, Business and Procurement decision makers and growing the Microsoft business in the account by 400% by managing the complexity of BT and Microsoft and aligning business priorities with Cloud solutions.With a BSC in Geophysics Steve's early career took him from the UK across the globe where his IT career was born and flourished in MEA, returning to the UK in 2018 with Microsoft.He is passionate about technology making a real difference to the business value of customers, partners and the lives of individuals.His understanding of business, strategic and innovative thinking, passion for success and skill in managing people have helped him manage and grow many businesses for large Global software vendors and for smaller start-up businesses, often driving new technologies into new markets, both directly and through channel partners, Steve consistently exceeds targets and has achieved global recognition and awards at Microsoft and IBM.Steve is an innovator, a motivator and a leader, with an attention to detail but a focus on the big picture to drive results. He quickly builds relationships with clients, partners and team-members.