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Top SchoolGerd Saurer is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft driving partner success and extension strategies for Microsoft Fabric, blending product strategy with hands-on execution. Based in Vienna, he has over seven years of focused cloud and partner leadership at Microsoft, plus more than two decades of engineering and team-lead experience dating back to early distributed systems and CEP work. He has moved between technical delivery, global partnerships, and industry-focused cloud solutions (notably retail and CPG), helping customers adopt AI, big data and IoT at scale. As a lecturer and recent Executive MBA candidate, he pairs practical engineering depth with formal leadership and change-management training. Colleagues know him for a Try.Fail.Learn.Succeed mindset and a knack for spotting joint opportunities that turn platform capabilities into saleable partner offerings. An early developer of complex event processing systems, he brings rare experience bridging low-level system design and high-level partner ecosystem strategy.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Executive MBA, Leadership and Change Management, MBA, Executive MBA, Leadership and Change Management, MBA at FH Burgenland
English, German, Hungarian