Paul Muckleston joins Pacific Channel as a Venture Partner.
Previously, Paul was the Chief Operating Officer for Microsoft’s world-wide Public Sector business. Paul enjoyed a successful and diverse career at Microsoft in various leadership roles based in New Zealand, France, Germany and the United States, travelling professionally to 70+ countries.
Paul brings hands-on experience in developed and developing markets, start-ups and mature organizations, governance, strategy development, organization transformation and people leadership. He has deep expertise in revenue accountability, channel strategy, go-to-market models and global operations leadership.
Paul knows firsthand how to scale businesses globally having been on senior leadership teams across Europe and Asia and for 6 years in Seattle based global leadership roles. These global roles had responsibility across 100+ countries, direct teams of >250 FTEs, indirect orgs of >3,000 FTEs and revenues from <$60M growth businesses to >$20B mature operations. Paul’s developed a keen sense for balancing the differences in country culture, size and scale with consistent performance and execution accountabilities.