Kya Sainsbury-Carter

Kya Sainsbury-Carter leads Microsoft Advertising, serving advertisers and publishers with an omnichannel, multiformat, global advertising offering. Microsoft Advertising employees around the globe empower monetization for Microsoft, key partners, and the open web. This scale has helped propel advertising across Microsoft to more than $18B in annual gross revenue.

Kya has been with Microsoft for 17+ years. She has held leadership roles across Sales, Strategy, Operations and Partner Management, and across all channels and customer segments. Kya grew Microsoft Advertising’s 3P business, served as the business lead on the Xandr and Netflix deals, and has played a leadership role in Microsoft’s LGBTQ+ employee resource groups. She has built her brand on bridging from strategy to execution, synthesizing complexity into action, high impact collaboration and servant leadership. Kya is a boy mom, partner of a sustainability entrepreneur, a Deadhead, and believes Prince is a musical genius.