Paula is nowadays a thought leader at technology industry in Brazil. In the last 2 years she has participated in more than 52 events spreading messages of technology innovation, education and entrepreneurship and diversity & inclusion. She is a LinkedIn Influencer with 329,434 followers.

Executive Bio:
Paula is focusing on driving Microsoft’s business objectives and strategies around Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence, across 35 offices in 21 countries, with more than 2,000 employees and 80,000 business partners across the region as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Operations of Microsoft Latin America.

With over 25 years of experience in the market, the executive began her career in Marketing at Whirlpool in 1992, worked at Telefonica for 4 years and in 2002 joined Microsoft Brazil, where she held different positions for 10 years. Prior to returning as President in 2015, Paula was Latin America Sales Director for small and medium companies of Facebook and was President of Apple's operation in Brazil for two years.

Paula led Microsoft Brazil for almost 4 years. Under her leadership, Microsoft Brazil was awarded the #1 best multinational to work for in Brazil and the #1 best company to work for in the Technology Industry. Paula has been recognized with several awards including executive of the year by Valor Económico in 2017 and 2018.

“The region is going through such an incredible transformation in the way that our customers and partners use and consume technology such as cloud computing and AI to be more efficient and productive in their daily lives,” said Paula Bellizia, vice president, sales, marketing and operations, Microsoft Latin America.