Brett Roberts

Current

• National Technology Officer at Microsoft New Zealand

Past

• Director of Innovation at Microsoft New Zealand
• Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft New Zealand
• Platform Strategy Manager at Microsoft New Zealand

• OEM Manager at Microsoft New Zealand
• Manager Volume Licensing - Asia Pacific at Software Spectrum

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Education

• University of Auckland
• Mount Albert Grammar School

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Brett Roberts’s Summary

20+ years in a variety of technology-related roles including:

- corporate and government sales
- competitive strategy
- marketing
- management
- government liaison
- PR and issues management
- primary spokeperson
- software design, development and testing
- avionics engineering

Brett Roberts’s Specialties:

Strategy, business planning, innovation, marketing, corporate and government sales, government liaison, PR/issues management, geek-speak to business-speak translation, IT trend analysis

Brett Roberts’s Experience

• National Technology Officer

  Microsoft New Zealand

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Responsible for outreach and engagement with technology leaders, academics and government officials with the goal of advocating the technology needs of local government, education and academic agencies within Microsoft.

• Director of Innovation

  Microsoft New Zealand

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  Development of strategic initiatives/relationships and building new channels to market. Ownership of Microsoft NZ's competitive, security and online safety strategies.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Microsoft New Zealand

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  July 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for developing and communicating Microsoft NZ's competitive, security and online safety strategies.

• Platform Strategy Manager

  Microsoft New Zealand

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  July 2003 — June 2005 (2 years )

  Responsible for developing Microsoft NZ's competitive strategies

• OEM Manager

  Microsoft New Zealand

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 1997 — June 2003 (5 years 8 months)

  Responsible for all of Microsoft's OEM business in NZ

• Manager Volume Licensing - Asia Pacific

  Software Spectrum

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1993 — October 1997 (4 years 3 months)

  Primary responsibility for Software Spectrum's software volume licensing businesss across the Asia Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong)

Brett Roberts’s Education

• University of Auckland

  Diploma in Business (IS) , Information Technology , 1990 — 1992

• Mount Albert Grammar School

  1975 — 1979

Additional Information

Brett Roberts’s Websites:

• My Blog

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