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Rackspace Hires Microsoft Veteran

By TechTaffy Desk

Rackspace

Rackspace has appointed Microsoft veteran Will Knight as the company’s new vice president of Channel Partner Sales. Mr. Knight will be responsible for building strategic and competitive channel partner programs, while driving overall partner sales, says the company.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Knight was an executive at Microsoft for 15 years, where he served in a range of partner- and customer-facing roles across the U.S., China and Singapore. Most recently, he served as Microsoft’s Small and Medium Business Leader for Asia Pacific.

[Image courtesy: Rackspace]

 

 

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