Australian channel veteran Robbie Upcroft has revealed he will be leaving IT services firm Insentra to return to Microsoft Australia.
Upcroft, who finished up last week as national partnership manager at the end of this month, will be replaced by Zeena Skelly, who was hired out of Nextgen. Upcroft will start at Microsoft on 1 February 2021 in an undisclosed role.
Upcroft revealed the move on LinkedIn, thanking his former employer for the past four years.
“My joint-success with [channel partners] was only made possible with the support of the wider Insentra team,” Upcroft’s LinkedIn post read.
“Our solutions managers, industry-leading consultants, super-creative marketing team, world-class delivery engine and of course, the ever-innovative Insentra founders, Ronnie [Altit], Steve [Boi] and Itzik [Gur].”
Talk about a rough day at work. Googleâs Australian managing director
Melanie Silva got handed the hard basket on Friday when she fronted a Senate committee hearing and threatened to close down its local search function if a proposed code that will force the tech giant to pay for using news services becomes law.
Googleâs Melanie Silva was heavily pregnant when she faced a Senate hearing last week.
Credit:John Shakespeare
But the sensational display of brinkmanship â and a threat to walk away from some $4 billion in Australian ad revenues â was far from the biggest event in Silvaâs world that week. After wrapping up the hearing on Friday, the heavily pregnant Silva went into labour.
Talk about a rough day at work. Googleâs Australian managing director
Melanie Silva got handed the hard basket on Friday when she fronted a Senate committee hearing and threatened to close down its local search function if a proposed code that will force the tech giant to pay for using news services becomes law.
Googleâs Melanie Silva was heavily pregnant when she faced a Senate hearing last week.
Credit:John Shakespeare
But the sensational display of brinkmanship â and a threat to walk away from some $4 billion in Australian ad revenues â was far from the biggest event in Silvaâs world that week. After wrapping up the hearing on Friday, the heavily pregnant Silva went into labour.
Microsoft Australia has partnered with career and leadership coaching organisation Women Rising to run a program to help women in the IT industry take the next step in their careers.
The program is available to both internal Microsoft employees and the wider Microsoft channel partner ecosystem, with some 150 participants already signed up.
The all-virtual program runs for six months, combining evidence-based positive psychology, neuroscience and behavioural studies rolled into one, as well as the latest in gender research, leadership development, wellbeing principles and human flourishing.
Attendants will receive eight modules, including 32 masterclasses and live coaching sessions. An interactive community forum is included to help encourage mentoring, community sharing and networking.
Australian organisations embrace a culture of innovation and accelerate opportunities due to COVID-19 pandemic By Microsoft News Center
12 January, 2021
Despite the challenges faced due to the ongoing global health crisis and the countryâs first recession in 30 years, 45% of Australian businesses believe COVID-19 has presented them with an opportunity to innovate, according to a new Microsoft-IDC study.
The study surveyed more than 3,000 business and IT professionals across the Asia-Pacific region where for many businesses, two years of digital transformation has happened within just two months. The report found that for the majority of organisation surveys, the pandemic accelerated a digital transformation and the digitisation of customer and supply chain interactions. Almost 7 in 10 (69%) organisations in Australia are transforming digitally to adapt to and survive the new reality. Demonstrating the scale of transformation, 82% of business decision-makers