Customer Relations & Business Development Manager
Sien graduated from Ghent University in 2014 with a Master in Business Engineering - Operations Management. After which she continued to specialize in International Business Management through an Advanced Master at ESCP Europe in Paris.
Passionate about the opportunity of data and cloud technology to help organizations achieve their business priorities through digital transformation, she joined Microsoft BeLux in 2015. Throughout her career at Microsoft, she's built experience across different roles in strategic partner management and solution sales with a specific focus on growing Microsoft’s Azure business. She has helped Microsoft Belux's largest greenfield customers in the public & healthcare sector evaluate their cloud strategy and determine approaches to migrate and modernize applications and data platforms.
Over the past year, Sien has spearheaded the North American expansion of Twipe – a Belgian Mediatech scale-up. In this role, she moved to New York City and was accountable for building relations and growing Twipe's business amongst news publishing groups in the USA and Canada. Envisioning publishers about application innovation, personalized content distribution & data-driven decision-making.
Sien joined element61 in January 2023 as a Customer Relations & Business Development Manager.