Intel has hired Microsoft vet Alyssa Fitzpatrick as its new global channel sales leader.

Intel’s Alyssa Fitzpatrick

Fitzpatrick’s new role is vice president and general manager of global partner sales. She was with Microsoft for six years and was general manager of worldwide partner sales.

Before that, she held global channel leadership roles with CA Technologies, Intel Security and Informatica. At Intel Security, she was senior vice president of worldwide alliances.

“My career has been focused on helping partners come together to meet customer needs more effectively, and to build collaborative strategies and ecosystems for worldwide scale,” Fitzpatrick said. “I’m particularly honored to be joining Intel to continue this in such an revolutionary moment.”

In her new role at Intel, she’ll help partners build value, innovate for growth and integrate. She’ll focus on ISVs, SIs and cloud partners.

Intel Focused On Partner Experience

John Kalvin is Intel’s vice president and general manager of global partners and support. In a LinkedIn article, he talked about Intel’s channel goals and how it’s shaping its partner organization.

“A big part of our mission is bringing the right partners together to create better systems, software, services and solutions,” he said. “We want to enable opportunities where partners get what they need from us. And they can connect with other partners to get what they need from each other. We want to help partners get their products and solutions designed, put into production, moved around the world and into customers’ hands faster. In short, we want to bring a higher level of value to every partnership. The potential of a transformed ecosystem is huge. And we’re going to make it happen — together.”

Kalvin said Fitzpatrick adds to a “strong group of leaders” focused on increasing value delivered to partners.

“This includes Dave Guzzi, a seasoned industry executive who recently joined Intel, and Intel veterans Sherri Madison, Andy Marsee and Boji Tony,” he said. “Together, this dream team will unleash extreme partnership across Intel’s partner ecosystem.”