What’s Caroline Up To?
Former Microsoft executive Caroline Goles at a recent industry conference hosted by Pax8 in Denver. Highlights from the interview include:
• Partner relations and cloud technology.
• Career progression and industry experience.
• Aligning sales and marketing strategies for partnership success.
• Partner needs and marketing services.
Harry Brelsford 00:02
All right, hey, nation nation. I'm with longtime friend, Carolyn Goles. What are a couple career highlights?
Caroline Goles 00:38
So I was in Asia Pacific with my friend Chris Sharp, working on getting partners to understand this, this cloud thing we were doing back in the day, went to Japan and did a tour leading our Microsoft 365 business over in Japan, which was an incredible experience, came back and then I came back through our marketing team did a little bit of a launch around our bespoke offerings in Microsoft 365, for SMB, and I think that's where you and I were.
Harry Brelsford 01:08
That's where that's where we work together. So you're recently joined Pax8. How long have you been here?
Caroline Goles 01:15
Because it's been 18 months. Whoa, I know, time flies when you're having fun. So it's been great.
Harry Brelsford 01:20
And I've tracked your career. And here's what I like, you know, you you got the undergrad and I'm a little picky about you know, what an executive should be, but you got the undergrad, you got the grad degree from prestigious schools, you have overseas experience. So that'll coalesces. And I come My family comes from the oil industry. And that's what they look for it like you got to do a tour of duty in Venezuela.
Caroline Goles 01:41
Indeed, that that is very true. That is and by the way, good stories, those are those oil, people that travel around the world. They've got great stories, yeah. And