Summary
Karsten Hartlieb is a seasoned partner development and marketing leader with over two decades in IT, currently driving partner growth for on-premises and hybrid cloud workloads at Microsoft from the Greater Munich area. He blends deep technical roots in SAP architecture and solution design with strategic go-to-market, partner program and campaign execution developed across roles at T-Systems and Microsoft. Known for translating complex licensing and hosting changes into actionable partner enablement (notably the 2022 Microsoft license and CSP-Hoster updates), he balances technical credibility with practical commercial acumen. Karsten thrives on improving processes, creating measurable impact and enabling partner success, and brings an engineer’s curiosity—grounded in telecom, software and hardware training—to strategic partner ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, International Management, Diplom Engineer (FH), Telecommunication and Information Technology, Physics, Mathematics, Internship, Software and circuit board development, MBA, International Management, Diplom Engineer (FH), Telecommunication and Information Technology, Physics, Mathematics, Internship, Software and circuit board development at European School of Business Reutlingen
University of Applied Sciences Telekom Leipzig
Dublin Institute of Technology