Leigh Schvartz

Leigh Schvartz

Assistant UK Enterprise Product Marketing Manager

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  • About me

    Head of Fsas Technologies Business Unit UK & Interim Head Strategic Sales GTM Europe

  • Education

    • New College

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      Business, Law, Politics

      Activities and Societies: Athletics, Karate, Kickboxing A Levels: Business Studies (A), Law (A) and Government and Politics (A)

    • Loughborough University

      2008 - 2012
      BSc (Hons) - 1:1 Management Sciences First Class Honours (1:1)

      Activities and Societies: - Captain and Coach, Loughborough First Team Kickboxing; - Competed at various levels in Boxing, Athletics and Football Final year report titled 'Is Heaven Really In The Cloud' assessing the various trade offs all sizes of companies make when using a public cloud service - Achieved a First for this report with 90%.Achieved Half Colours from Loughborough Sport for National Representation of the University in Kickboxing, achieving a silver medal at the university national championships as well as being invited to trial for Great Britain taekwondo.

  • Experience

    • Fujitsu Global

      Jun 2010 - Jul 2011
      Assistant UK Enterprise Product Marketing Manager

      Placement year whilst at universityAssistant UK Product Marketing Manager working with Fujitsu's server and storage product offerings, PRIMERGY and ETERNUS.Accountable for managing all aspects of operational product marketing across both server and storage portfolios including..- Pricing- Inventory Management- Product Introduction- Product Lifecycle Management- Marketing Development and Communication- Product Value Propositions - Creation of Sales Collateral - Delivering or Assisting with training for both Partners and Sales staff- Bid desk management Show less

    • Fujitsu UK and Ireland

      Sept 2012 - Jan 2016

      Product responsibility for Fujitsu's professional workstation business, under the brand name CELSIUS, within the UK & Ireland.Responsible for the definition, planning, execution and management of go-to-market strategy, to enable growth for Fujitsu within this market. Also pro-actively build & develop new business relationships with graphics partners & leading software vendors whilst working alongside sales teams within Fujitsu.Over the course of the last two years the workstation business in the UK&I has tripled in size by unit shipments & revenue as well as becoming the most profitable area of the client device portfolio within Fujitsu UK&I. More recently my role has expanded to also look at our high performance computing portfolio as a whole - from workstations right through to server infrastructure & storage. Show less

      • Enterprise Product Marketing Manager, Storage Products

        Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
      • Product Manager, Professional Workstations & High Performance Computing

        Sept 2012 - Jun 2015
    • Avanade

      Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
      Manager, Global Cloud & Technology Services Solutions Marketing

      Avanade (part of Accenture) is the number one Microsoft partner in the world and the technology sectors most successful joint venture. Majority owned by Accenture today and founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft to serve the market for Microsoft consultancy. In my most recent role, I was responsible globally for solutions marketing across Avanade's Modern Workplace consulting and managed services offerings, covering Office 365 and Windows 10.I initially joined Avanade as a Senior Consultant and part of the Global Solutions Marketing team, responsible for supporting Avanade's marketing and subject matters experts across Microsoft Azure and related technology services businesses globally.I'm also a founding member of Avanade's Agile Marketing Centre of Excellence and am a qualified Professional Scrum Master. In combination with Avanade's world-leading agile software development practise, we have led the way internally in creating a framework fit for marketing based on principles from Avanade's partner, Scrum.org. Show less

    • Fujitsu

      Jan 2018 - now

      Senior Director and member of the European Leadership team for Fujitsu's €2B product business, leading the team responsible for building and growing the highly strategic as-a-Service, consulting and data-driven services business within Fujitsu’s product group in Europe. The purpose of the team is quite simple: deliver the best possible experience & outcomes for our customers and partners. How do we do it? With leading-edge consumption models, brilliant Fujitsu consultants, the superpowers of our ecosystem partners and all combined with services which mean our customers can realise business value from our products, faster. Show less

      • Head of Fsas Technologies UK & Interim Head of Strategic Sales GTM Europe

        Apr 2025 - now
      • Head of GTM, Solutions & Services & Co-Head GTM Europe Platform Business

        Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
      • Head of Consultative Sales, Europe Platform Business

        Aug 2021 - Apr 2024
      • Chief of Staff, Europe Platform Business

        Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
      • Head of Product Innovation Strategy

        Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
      • Head of Cloud and Managed Service Provider Offerings

        Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

      Scrum.org
      Sept 2016
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Leigh Schvartz
      Top 30 under 30 in Cloud Computing http://www.cbronline.com/news/cloud/top-30-under-30-in-cloud/#1 Apr 2017 Recognised as one of the top 30 under 30 best contributors to the Cloud industry.
    • Awarded to Leigh Schvartz
      Fujitsu UK&I Graduate of the Year (2012) Fujitsu Talent Team Awarded by the Fujitsu talent team for consistently delivering outstanding performance and near perfect execution to management, customers & peers.