Rodney Clark’s Sudden Departure from Microsoft
A year after taking over as Microsoft’s global channel chief, Rodney Clark is unexpectedly exiting the company to join Johnson Controls, a provider of building automation technology.
Clark’s departure appeared to have caught Nick Parker, Microsoft corporate VP and president for Global Partner Solutions, off guard, as the company doesn’t have a replacement lined up.
In the meantime, Microsoft is making changes to its partner incentives and investments. It further continues to face the fallout from perhaps its biggest channel-program change in 15 years, the upcoming switch to the Cloud Partner Program. Those plans, of course, have attracted swift and steady pushback from partners.
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