Chandra Stevens

Over the last 10 years, Chandra Stevens has become known across industries for merging innovative marketing, media and cutting edge technology to develop solutions for customer centricity and digital transformation. Chandra leverages emerging platforms to empower consumers to become an extension of marketing. These participatory experiences and conversations, build emotional connections that drive the customer lifetime value of some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

As the Global Director of Cross Industry Marketing Solutions at Microsoft, Chandra manifests this vision by identifying and engaging both consumer and enterprise business groups across the Microsoft product portfolio as well as strategic partners across varied disciplines to design and develop customer-centric strategies and solutions for use by Microsoft’s customer base.

Ms. Stevens also serves as the primary architect for marketing solutions strategy for marketing analytics and insights, customer experiences and personalized digital marketing. Her work across industries spanning media, entertainment, publishing, sports, finance, healthcare, telco, retail and CPG as well as having worked in business development and sales roles for both consumer and enterprise products has played an instrumental role in developing leading edge marketing solutions for one of the world’s largest technology companies.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2005, Chandra spent 5 years in international business development at SAP. She left SAP to become a mobile strategist where she led initiatives with UNIDO in Uganda including district business information centers where she launched mobile education programs for micro-entrepreneurs.

Chandra holds a Bachelors of Finance degree from the University of Georgia, studied abroad at the United Nations in Geneva as part of the New York University global affairs program and most recently completed the executive business program at Columbia University’s CMO Institute. She is a Microsoft Circle of Excellence Gold Club recipient and has been awarded multiple creative awards.