Susan Payne Cook — Executive Vice President of North American Sales at MICROSTRATEGY INC.

Ms. Susan Payne Cook has been an Executive Vice President of North American Sales at MicroStrategy Inc. since joining in October 2014. In this role, Ms. Cook leads sales operations in North America. She has nearly two decades of experience in analytics in large global technology companies. She was a Vice President of Sales in both global and North American roles in the Business Analytics software brand at IBM, which included the Cognos, TM1 and SPSS products. She joined IBM as a Partner and global leader in the Business Analytics and Optimization practice within IBM Global Business Services. She was the Worldwide Vice President of the Business Intelligence Solutions group at HP that combined consulting services, infrastructure products, and third-party software to provide solutions to HP's largest and most complex global clients. Prior to HP, she spent six years at Oracle as a Group Vice President of Sales. For two of those years, she created and led the North America Business Intelligence sales organization, combining teams and technologies from acquisitions like Siebel and Hyperion.