Biography - Board of Directors

David Vander is the worldwide Sales Excellence Lead for the Enterprise Business within Microsoft Corp based in Redmond.

Vander is responsible for driving and managing Microsoft’s Enterprise sales operations, sales management and growth planning worldwide. Specifically, Vander drives the regular cadence of the business that includes reporting, forecasting, pipeline management and customer satisfaction efforts as well segmentation, quota setting, relationship management and change leadership via the Sales Excellence community worldwide. As part of the worldwide Enterprise Leadership team, Vander also is responsible for the systematic implementation of growth planning, talent development and creating a stepwise improvement in sales capability and quality, ensuring that the full extent of Microsoft’s vision and value proposition is realized by Enterprise customers globally.

Vander has been with Microsoft for over seven years and prior to this role was as the worldwide Managing Director for Banking and Financial Services at Microsoft. Vander’s background is as a strategist within financial services specializing in business transformation around technology, but combines this with a strong focus on strategic execution.

Vander has extensive experience and knowledge on the evolving challenges and opportunities presented to enterprises today and how institutions might prepare themselves for the future.

During his entire career, Vander has continued to educate himself and has four degrees including a Masters Degree in Engineering, a Masters Degree in IT and an MBA. Vander is also a Board Member of the Banking Industry Architecture Network