Pier Paolo Boccadamo

Partner Marketing Advisor - Microsoft

As member of the GTM team within the One Commercial Partner organization in Microsoft Italy - Western Europe, I've the opportunity to focus on jointly develop, support, and execute a specific GTM Plan jointly with selected Partners or potential ones, about its solutions or practices enabled by Microsoft Azure, Data & AI platform.
Board member of COSBI Research Center. Also proudly involved in driving the success of growITup (www.growitup.it), the initiative jointly launched by Microsoft Italy and Fondazione Cariplo with the support of key Partners and Investors, aimed to support the Italian startups ecosystem in expressing world-class Italian Startups while enabling key Digital Transformation goals of Italian Corporates, thanks also to the dedicated 200M euros VC fund launched at the end of June 2017 (Indaco).
Among my previous areas of responsibilities: developing partnerships with ISV & Startups; marketing lead of Hybrid Cloud Platform Solutions; narrowing the gap between Open Source community & Microsoft; Interop Strategy lead; Competitive Strategy Director; 15 yrs in Microsoft Services, in many roles, from Developer Support Engineer to Microsoft Consulting Director; software engineer in a ISV of graphical structural analysis/CAD solutions, and Theme Park automation.