Welcome to the 94th episode of the Ultimate Guide to Partnering. It was a pleasure to welcome to the podcast Microsoft's Vice President for Partner Development, Carlos De Torres. Carlos's organization is responsible for ISV's Industry and Private Equity for the US Business. With a servant leaders mindset for partner growth, Carlos asks partners, "where can I help?"

As the Vice President, US for ISV, Industry and Private Equity within Microsoft, Carlos' US Partner Development Team is charged with driving growth with ISVs (Integrated Software Vendors), Industry verticals (i.e. Financial Services, Healthcare, Education, Manufacturing, Retail and Public Sector) and Private Equity Partnerships. He is responsible for a multi-billion dollar business, accelerating Microsoft Partners transformation to the Cloud, building the Industry Partner capacity & capability, and driving strong Partner preference on Microsoft’s platform.  

Carlos is fairly new to his role and it was refreshing to spend time to get his perspective and point of view on how he hopes to further serve this critical group of partners and organizations. In this episode, we discuss his business priorities, his view of his role, and how he is applying a servant leader lens to how he supports his partners. The importance of partner to partner as a vehicle to success for partners and how the transformation has changed how we work.

I particularly enjoyed my time with Carlos and hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I enjoyed getting to know Carlos De Torres.

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