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Senior Microsoft UK exec and good buddy Claire O’Halloran is down in New Zealand spending time with Xero next week. We have a tight schedule but would like to invite other New Zealand software companies close to working in the UK to come to a brown bag lunch on Friday to hear about partnering with Microsoft UK and the programs they have in place for international companies.
Places will be limited. Priority given to those closest to market. 12-1 sharp. Please contact sarah.gummer@xero.com if you would like to come along.
Claire with warm up speaker in Hanoi last week.
Some background on Claire:
Claire has spent thirteen years in Sales, Marketing and Business Development in IT and Telecoms and has a substantial network encompassing public sector, private sector, media and academia.
For the past two and a half years at Microsoft, she has applied her energy and passion to creating a vision for growth for the software developer and independent software vendor (ISV) channel – which has resulted in numerous best practices and awards.
With a remit to create a strategy for Partnering for the Future and ‘next generation’ partnerships, Claire has pioneered initiatives around off-shore development helping UK companies partner with others in SE Asia, gaining sponsorship from UK Trade and Investment and foreign governments. She is a spokesperson for Microsoft UK on Globalisation.
Her work with the Emerging Business Team, which actively partners with the Venture Capital community, focuses on helping ‘high potential’ start-up and young companies from the UK and Overseas. Driving the Cross Border strategy, partnerships with Enterprise Ireland and Investment New Zealand have seen incremental business for Microsoft UK and overseas ISV partners.
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What kind of booze should go into the brown bag? Whisky or vodka? Not so keen on gin…