As Microsoft South Africa's Marketing and Operations Director, Nir Tenzer is responsible for the company's entire corporate and product marketing activities, including leading the product Business Groups, the Go-to-Market activities, the Customer and Partner Experience, all compete initiatives, as well as the company's business operations.
In his eight years with Microsoft, Nir has also held two key roles in Microsoft Israel, namely Director of Business Development and Platform Strategy and Server and Tool Business Group Lead. Through this, he developed expertise in business development, spanning start-up to mature businesses, driving stronger relationships in breadth technology and academia communities, as well as an in-depth knowledge on the MS platform and strategy.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Nir served as the Marketing and Business Development Vice President for the IPTV division at Teledata Network Ltd. He has also held a number of other executive marketing and business development roles in the Israeli software industry.
During his career, Nir has regularly lectured at the Recanati School of Business Administration in Tel-Aviv University.
Nir earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University.