Biography

Mr Alain Crozier is corporate vice president, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Greater China Region (GCR).

Alain is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership covering all of Microsoft’s product, service and support offerings across Greater China and continuing the company’s transformation into the leading productivity and platform company for the mobile-first, cloud-first era.

Since joining Microsoft in 1994, Alain has held a variety of business leadership roles in the Sales, Marketing and Services Group (SMSG) organization including president of Microsoft France, Finance & Administration director of the France subsidiary, regional controller for the Americas and South Pacific region, and worldwide sales controller before being promoted to SMSG CFO.

As corporate vice-president and chief financial officer (CFO) of the Sales, Marketing and Services Group at Microsoft, Alain was responsible for the financial leadership of a worldwide organization.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Crozier was Finance, Planning & Analysis manager at Lesieur Alimentaire, a subsidiary of Eridania Beghin Say in Paris. He also held several audit and finance positions within Lesieur Alimentaire. Alain started his career at Peat Marwick Consultants in Paris, where he specialized in planning process design, functional reorganizations and process reengineering.

Alain graduated from University Claude Bernard with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and social sciences, and from the Institut Superieur de Gestion in Paris with a Business Administration degree.

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Accelerating Digital Transformation

Digital technology will become even more pervasive in our lives in the future, whether in education, healthcare, financial services or even agriculture. Every walk of life, every part of our economy and every part of our society is going to be touched by digital transformation driven by intelligent cloud, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more with platforms and tools to accelerate digital transformation and enable people to have greater impact on their world. Our mission is grounded in both the opportunity as well as the responsibility of digital transformation outcomes so we approach the accelerating spread of technology in a way that is inclusive and trustworthy by design.