RingCentral, a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions, announced that Phil Sorgen, former Corporate Vice President for Microsoft’s Enterprise Commercial Group, has joined the company as its Chief Revenue Officer. Reporting to Anand Eswaran, President and Chief Operating Officer at RingCentral, Sorgen will be responsible for global sales including all direct, service providers, channel and strategic partners. Earlier Sorgen served as the Corporate Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. Sorgen is a 30-year industry veteran and has spent the last 20+ years at Microsoft in a variety of leadership roles.
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“I am excited to join a rapidly growing organization like RingCentral that is at the forefront of transforming enterprise communications”
“We are excited to have Phil on board and extend him a very warm welcome. Phil brings 30 years of experience of leading sales and partner organizations at global scale,” said Anand Eswaran, president and chief operating officer, RingCentral. “Phil’s leadership is defined by his deep customer and partner relationships, a customer-first mindset and a track record of building sustainable growth businesses at scale. As we continue to enable our customers to thrive during these unprecedented times, Phil will lead the way in driving a powerful partner and customer ecosystem and take us through our next growth phase.”
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Most recently, Sorgen was responsible for Microsoft’s U.S. Enterprise Commercial Group, an organization responsible for helping the company’s largest commercial customers in the U.S. navigate digital transformation. In this role, Sorgen led U.S. enterprise sales and customer success teams including national, industry and technical teams.
Prior to this, Phil was Corporate Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft where he was responsible for setting the channel strategy for a broad network of diverse partner companies worldwide. In addition, his team was responsible for activating partners on Microsoft cloud offerings at scale. He also had oversight of partner capacity management, sales and technical readiness, partner incentives, and digital engagement.
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