Laurence Lafont
Director, Marketing & Operations Division
Director, Marketing & Operations Division
Microsoft
France
Biography
Laurence Lafont, 46, started her career at France Telecom where she contributed to the development of tele-activities for education and the public sector. She then took over the management of major service projects at Orange France. After an experience in the creation of Internet start-ups, she joined Oracle in 2001, where she spent 9 years, performing business development, strategy, sales and marketing in France and abroad. In 2010, she was named Vice President of Sales at Nokia before joining Microsoft as Director of the Public Sector Division in 2012. In this role, Laurence Lafont enabled Microsoft to forge ever stronger relationships with the partner ecosystem , communities, institutions and, more broadly, public sector actors. As Director of the M & O Division, Laurence Lafont will accompany the global strategy of Microsoft France, and in particular the digital transformation of organizations thanks to innovations carried by the Cloud. Laurence Lafont is an engineer, graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (Centrale Supélec).
Research Interest
business and engineering