As the Vice President of Global Partner Solutions, Microsoft Americas, Go-To-Market team, Heather Deggans leads a diverse team of marketers focused on enabling partner success by creating market differentiated solutions that transform a customer's business. She is accountable for accelerating partner growth to capture market share and increase revenue to enable Microsoft's mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Heather is a business and technology industry veteran of more than 20 years, previously serving as the Chief of Staff for Kate Johnson in Microsoft US, a $45 billion subsidiary driving Microsoft's strategic alignment across enterprise sales, public sector, marketing, services, commercial partner, and operations.

As a strong advocate for Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, Heather has led the Brené Brown, Empathy in Action program in Microsoft US, helping leaders bring empathy to life in their teams and business units.

Heather is a Dallas, Texas native who relocated to Seattle, WA, ten years ago with her husband and two beautiful children.