Christopher Sampson
About
Christopher Sampson is from Greater Seattle Area. Christopher works in the following industries: "Computer Software", and "Information Technology & Services". Christopher is currently Head of Communication Cloud Services (CX) - GTM and Business Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), located in Greater Seattle Area. In Christopher's previous role as a Vice President - Business Development at Finagraph, Christopher worked in Seattle until Mar 2017. Prior to joining Finagraph, Christopher was a GM - Search, Commerce and Maps at Microsoft and held the position of GM - Search, Commerce and Maps at Bellevue. Prior to that, Christopher was a Senior Director - Search and Maps Business Development at Microsoft, based in Seattle from Oct 2009 to Oct 2012. Christopher started working as Director - Azure Maps Specialist Sales, BD and System Engineers at Microsoft in Redmond in Sep 2000.
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Christopher Sampson's current jobs
Head of GTM and Business Development for AWS Communication Cloud Services (CX), one of the largest multi-channel cloud messaging services (CX) in the world. Responsible for building GTM plans, Industry and Sales Demand Generation, Partner Channels and winning the largest Account Opportunities. Role is responsible for GTM, specialist sales, and demand generation sales programs. Leader of AWS Communication Services that include high speed messaging (email, sms, mobile push, voice and social channels), customer data platform management (CDP) customer analytics, marketing segmentation, location based services, mobile notifications and machine learning to enable customer personalization. AWS Communication Services power some of the largest enterprises in the world who depend on direct to consumer engagement. In this role I manage a team responsible for go to market strategy, sales, business development, business strategy, innovative partnerships and operating models that drive growth within AWS Productivity Apps and Communication Services. Industry coverage includes Retail, FinTech, HCLS, PubSec, Media, CPG and Entertainment, and Digital Native.
Christopher Sampson's past jobs
Responsible for strategic partner development, licensing, GTM programs and Investor Relations. Finagraph is a premiere venture funded Fintech, using analytics and ML to help customers with cash flow, commerce, forecasting, financial modeling and lending. The Finagraph platform connects disparate data sources, normalizes the data with advanced analytics and turns the data into a business intelligence dashboard. Cloud platform, Big data, Advanced analytics and Business intelligence accessing thousands of financial nodes - Finagraph is creating the largest lending financial knowledge graph in the world, using engineering know how from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. - Investors include Moody's and partners like Visa
Leader of Search Digital Engagement covering Business Development, Product Marketing and Sales. Advertising Incubation products included: Voice enabled Search (Cortana), Local Search/Maps (Virtual Earth/Bing Maps/Places), Payments and Device Applications that drive the adoption of Search Ecosystem. Created innovative business models working within Maps, Business Data and Search that led to new revenue streams. Direct ownership of BD content licensing, market monetization plans and detailed GTM partnerships with sales and ecosystem partners. Leader of large influential projects including founder work for Microsoft geo data (Virtual Earth /satellite,aircraft and vehicle), 1st Bing in-car navigation IoT project, content licensing for Bing Local Search, Azure Search, Local Search MDF investment model, Spark start-up venture fund and Bing Maps. Deep understanding of Location based apps, Device applications, Voice enabled Search (Location and Advertising) for Android, IOS/ Windows and Cloud Financial Vertical Applications.
Led the Search incubation business development, GTM, sales operations and technical sales team responsible for pilots and newly released products.
Original team member within Microsoft that developed the Virtual Earth platform, one of the first successful Azure Cloud Services. Led Virtual Earth Specialist Sales, Product Marketing, Tech Evangelists, System Architects, Business Development and Sales Support. Also led several acquisitions and negotiated embedded device agreements.