Dennis Michalis is a respected technology industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience growing businesses, defining and aligning technology offerings, and leading global, world-class teams. He is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product management group accountable for setting the long-term business strategy; aligning customers’ needs with product plans; creating and executing marketing strategy, including product positioning, pricing and packaging; developing channels; and driving revenue for Microsoft Dynamics CRM worldwide.
Before joining Microsoft, Michalis was corporate senior vice president at Infor Global Solutions, where he was responsible for the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) cloud business and connecting corporate strategy with field execution, including the launch of a worldwide reseller and distribution model in more than 80 countries. Michalis most recently served as the business development lead at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
Michalis has held a variety of senior management roles in organizations, including PRG LLC, an angel fund company for startup and microbusiness ventures in the enterprise technology space; Glovia International Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd. that develops extended ERP and supply chain management solutions; and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Michalis has a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in organizational communications and science with an emphasis on quantitative methods from California State University at Fullerton. He was a mentor at the University of California at Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the Extreme Computing Student Product Competition, and he was a member of the Executive Council, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University at Fullerton.
A native of Southern California, he is an avid waterman, endurance athlete and youth sports coach.