Just days before many of its partners arrive in Washington D.C. for its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft Canada has parted ways with one of its top channel leaders.
A Microsoft Canada spokesperson Thursday confirmed that Carol Terentiak, senior program development manager for the Microsoft Partner Network at Microsoft Canada, is no longer with the company.
“Given the fast paced and competitive nature of our industry, Microsoft is always examining our businesses to ensure the right resources are properly aligned against the right strategic priorities,” the company said in a statement received by CRN Canada Thursday. “To meet these goals, we occasionally increase investments in some areas, and de-invest in others; in some cases, this results in re-deployment of jobs across the organization, and in some case job eliminations.”
Terentiak herself confirmed the news in a brief posting on her LinkedIn page.
“On July 7, I was part of a reorg at Microsoft which resulted in positions eliminated,” she wrote. “Mine was one of those.”
CRN Canada’s U.S.-based sister publication CRN reported Wednesday that job cuts for a “relatively small” number of Microsoft employees were coming. According to that report, the cuts were not nearly as large as last year’s layoffs, which saw the software titan part ways with more than 5,000 employees over the course of the year.
The job cuts come during the first week of Microsoft’s fiscal 2011, which began July 1 with an executive double-switch that saw the company get a new worldwide channel chief. That double-switch involved Allison Watson, former worldwide channel chief, and John Roskill, formerly corporate vice president of the U.S. business and marketing division for the company.
