Alumnus & Microsoft International head - AACSB "Influential leader"
Published on 29 September 2016
Jean-Philippe Courtois, SKEMA alumnus 1983, executive vice president and president of Microsoft global sales, marketing, and operations has been nominated an "Influential leader 2016" by AACSB.
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Courtois is remembered by his SKEMA professors as a brilliant student. After participating in an internship in a start-up located in Sophia Antipolis, France, Courtois declined a then promising job offer to instead work at a growing U.S.-based company, Microsoft Corporation. From the beginning, Courtois excelled within the organisation: as a channel sales representative in 1984, he held several leadership positions and rose to become general manager of Microsoft France in 1994.