Charis Bobkov is an accomplished marketer with over 8 years of experience in product localization, Go-To-Market strategy, and partner/seller enablement in global markets. She has worked with both US and European companies and has been instrumental in creating and executing successful commercial leader connection models. Charis holds an MBA in Marketing from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a Bachelor's degree in English and International Business from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Before joining Microsoft, Charis worked as a Senior Consultant at Bridge Partners, a Business Program Manager, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Business Program Management at Danaher Corporation, Product Marketing Analyst at Avalara, Product Marketing Manager (Healthcare Business Development) at Ricoh Innovations Corporation, and as a Marketing Executive at Vogel Business Media GmbH & Co. KG.

At Microsoft, she works as a Senior Product Marketing Manager, where she has designed and executed commercial leader connection models by partnering with various teams to surface customer and market insights and unblock business obstacles.