Clayton Fernandez

Clayton is the Global Director for the Internet of Things and has been responsible for the growth of multiple emerging business for several high tech companies.

Clayton has lived & worked Australia, UK, USA & Singapore and has extensive international experience.  In his earlier career Clayton successfully led high profile enterprise infrastructure projects in several countries including the Sydney Olympics & Terminal 5 Heathrow Airport.

Joining the Microsoft worldwide team in January 2013 as the first Internet of Things employee in Asia, he was responsible for defining the Internet of Things strategy around how Microsoft delivers experiences to a world of connected devices in Asia Pacific.

Today Clayton is responsible for the Gloabl Internet of Things Sales within the Intelligent Cloud Business.  Clayton helps enterprise customers and partners take advantage of new, cloud-based opportunities, and fundamentally rethink their orthodoxies about value creation and value capture by leveraging Azure.

Passionate about the art of what is possible, Clayton is solving real business problems, and he is relentless in his focus to help customers leverage technology that transform experiences.

Clayton was born in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and graduated in Computer Science & Mathematics in Melbourne, Australia.