Congratulations to the 2023 Microsoft Associate of the Yr Awards winners and finalists


It’s as soon as once more my honor to announce our Microsoft Associate of the Yr Award winners and finalists. Over the previous yr, our world and various companion ecosystem has supported prospects of their digital transformation with Microsoft Cloud functions, providers, gadgets, and AI innovation. Throughout the cloud and edge, you will have delivered unmatched worth and helped organizations develop, run, and handle their companies in new methods. The tales acknowledged with these awards are a showcase of your success in creating modern options for our prospects on the Microsoft Cloud.

We’ll rejoice these excellent achievements along with all our companions throughout the globe at Microsoft Encourage 2023, which we’re internet hosting from July 18–19. Go to the Encourage web site to view occasion particulars and register.

Our companions are remodeling to deal with evolving buyer wants, responding to their elevated demand for the cloud, and delivering IP and providers that allow innovation, productiveness, and buyer success. Alongside the best way, now we have seen companions adapt to the alternatives offered by new expertise — from modern makes use of of AI in each business, to options enabling industries to function extra sustainably — to drive world influence. Via the energy of our collaboration, our companion neighborhood and observe file of success has continued to develop: this yr we acquired greater than 4,200 nominations throughout 106 nations/areas for the Associate of the Yr Awards.

Your partnership is a key aspect to the success of our continued mission to empower each individual and group on the planet to attain extra, and is why we come collectively and rejoice this neighborhood yearly. Collectively, we’re extra agile, ingenious, and inclusive with our options. Thanks in your ongoing influence and creativity, which preserve us on our business’s vanguard.

Congratulations to this yr’s winners and finalists, and to all our companions who’ve demonstrated innovation, dedication to their prospects, and constant supply of significant, accessible, inclusive, and sustainable options across the globe. We stay up for just about gathering as a neighborhood to acknowledge and rejoice your achievements from the previous yr, and to share new alternatives to develop and broaden your corporation.





  • Nicole Dezen



    Chief Associate Officer and Company Vice President, World Associate Options



    Nicole Dezen serves as Chief Associate Officer and Company Vice President, World Associate Options (GPS) at Microsoft. She leads the business companion enterprise and is chargeable for constructing and promoting Microsoft Cloud functions, providers and gadgets with companions. She collaborates with a broad set of business companions together with Advisory companions, machine companions, World System Integrators (GSIs), Impartial Software program Distributors (ISVs), and providers companions to drive digital transformation, scale, enterprise progress and profitability with companions.

    Nicole believes in empowering folks to drive progress. She works to assist companions unlock the just about limitless energy of the Microsoft Cloud to supply options that create new worth for patrons.

    Previous to main GPS, Nicole led the Microsoft Gadget Associate Gross sales group, the place she efficiently drove enterprise progress and innovation throughout the machine ecosystem by creating methods with essentially the most modern authentic machine and gear producers, silicon companions, together with resellers and distributors. Below her management, the group delivered alternative and progress throughout Microsoft’s machine and edge companion ecosystem spanning Home windows PCs, IOT, Collaboration gadgets, Servers and Blended Actuality.

    With greater than 25 years of gross sales expertise in tech, Nicole’s innate curiosity has led her from a number of years in telecommunications, to main tech start-ups as CEO, to driving Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar business companion enterprise at present. Nicole joined Microsoft in 2007 and served in a number of roles within the US, Asia and EMEA.

    Nicole is a proud Los Angeleno residing within the Pacific Northwest. In her private time, Nicole is a foodie, and loves cooking household recipes, or crushing a Peloton experience. She likes to journey and expertise the native tradition and meals within the cities and nations she visits.





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