Apple appoints Michael Dykes as Business and Education Sales Leader in Japan. In his new role, Michael will lead large commercial teams, develop partner ecosystems, drive technology adoption, and build growth strategies across Japan.
He has experience in enterprise sales, market management, technology consulting, cloud services, channel development and business transformation in Japan and across the Asia-Pacific region.
Before joining Apple, Michael spent more than 11 years at Expedia Group, most recently as Vice President of Market Management across Asia-Pacific. Earlier, he served as Senior Director of Market Management for Northeast Asia and Japan, where he led teams and lodging partner portfolios across Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, and South Korea, while handling the company’s legal representation in Japan.
Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 13 years at Microsoft, where he held senior leadership roles, such as Director of Corporate Accounts, Director of SMB, Business Manager to President and CEO of Microsoft Japan and Senior Architect. There, Michael was responsible for spanning enterprise and SMB sales, cloud services, channel strategy, customer engagement, business planning and technology consulting.
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He began his career with Sun Microsystems as Practice Manager and Senior Java Architect. Michael holds an SB in Maths, Computer Science and German from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
