Gerri Elliott
Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector
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Gerri Elliott is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector organization, which includes more than 1,900 sales professionals. She is responsible for strengthening customer and partner outreach within government, education and nonprivatized healthcare markets in more than 75 countries. In this key leadership role, Elliott focuses on creating innovative programs and solutions, such as advancing economic development, digital inclusion, lifelong learning and general quality of life for all citizens, to address the unique needs of public sector customers. In addition, Elliott leads Microsoft’s World Class Selling initiative across the entire company.
Elliott’s professional career spans almost 30 years of sales, services and marketing experience within Microsoft and, earlier, IBM Corp. Before assuming her current role in October 2004, she led Microsoft’s North American subsidiary and the U.S. Enterprise Sales segment, which includes Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers. Known for her passion for delivering business value and for quality service, she was responsible for software sales across several vertical industries, including financial services, retail and hospitality, automotive and healthcare as well as three geographic regions across the U.S. In this role, she also developed and implemented a global strategy to establish Microsoft’s first vertical industry sales and marketing organizations.
During her 22-year tenure at IBM, Elliott held several senior executive positions in Asia Pacific and North and South America. She served for two years in Tokyo as Vice President of Distribution Sector, Asia Pacific, where she led IBM’s sales, marketing and solutions efforts for that sector in Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, ASEAN, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. She also held a similar but larger role as Vice President, Distribution Sector, IBM Americas, where she led the team responsible for IBM’s largest customers in retail, wholesale, consumer packaged goods, travel and transportation industries.
Elliott received her Bachelor of Arts in international politics from New York University. She participates in the Women’s Senior Leadership Program at the Kellogg School of Management and recently served on the U.S. Commission on Higher Education appointed by the Secretary of Education. She is currently a member of the Catalyst Western Region Advisory Board, a women’s mentoring organization, and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative. Elliott also serves on the national board of Operation Hope Inc., a nonprofit, public benefit organization providing economic tools and services to empower underserved communities.
