Yvonne Chebib Brao

Yvonne Chebib Brao is an Executive Senior Director and the One Commercial Partner leader at Microsoft. Yvonne has a long and successful history in the business world, starting with their role as Finance Manager at Pikasso from September 1999 to December 2002. From there, they became Sales Director - Enterprise Group at Alcatel-Lucent from January 2003 to September 2012. After a brief stint as the Managing Director at Innosoft Solutions from November 2012 to May 2013, Yvonne went on to found their own company, V-Accelerate, in April 2013. V-Accelerate is an advisory company that helps businesses scale-up and matches investors with entrepreneurs. Yvonne remained with V-Accelerate until March 2014, when they took their current position at Microsoft.

In addition to their work in the corporate world, Yvonne is also very active in mentoring and empowering other women. Yvonne has been a Mentor with The LINK since October 2013, and they also served on the strategic advisory board - Non-Executive director at Icon Capital Partners Limited from July 2013 to December 2013.

Yvonne Chebib Brao has an entrepreneurship degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MBA from the same school, and a CESS in economic diagnosis of international firms from Universite Pierre Mendes France. Yvonne also has a masters in business economics & management from Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) and a bachelor's degree in economics from St Joseph University - Jesuites (Lebanon USJ). Yvonne is also certified by Microsoft - London Business School in leading the way in public sector and by Microsoft - Wharton in selling to the C-suite.

Yvonne Chebib Brao reports to Judson Althoff, EVP & Chief Commercial Officer. Some direct reports include Toby Richards - Sr. Director, Customer Success Strategy, Data & Technology, Eduardo Kassner - Chief Data Officer & General Manager, US SDP, Customer Success Data & AI Team. They are on a team with Nick Parker - President, Industry & Partnerships, Dave O'Hara - CVP & CFO, Commercial Finance, and Hernan Asorey - Chief Data Officer, Worldwide Commercial Software Engineering.