Peter Labes
Business Development, Sales & Marketing, and People Development in Seattle, Washington
Peter Labes started his career straight out of college as the IT manager for IDB Communications, Inc., a cutting-edge satellite communications company hatched in Culver City, California. Since, Peter has taken on progressively more responsibility in key business development, sales and marketing, and leadership roles driving double- and triple- digit growth and innovation for top global IT suppliers.
Peter Labes has worked as a Marketing Director for ACCPAC International, Inc., a highly profitable mid-market software subsidiary of Computer Associates. ACCPAC was acquired by Sage Software in 2004 and Peter was promoted to a Senior Director of Strategic Marketing. Peter led highly strategic marketing initiatives and directed the efforts of a large and talented marketing organization at Sage.
Peter Labes was recruited by Microsoft in 2010 where he led US SMB cloud channel strategy and held a lead role for one the strongest commercial growth engines at Microsoft. During his tenure the US SMB team won the most prestigious Microsoft "silver cup" award for cloud growth two consecutive years.
In 2014 Peter Labes took on a senior executive role at SkyKick, an award-winning, hyper-growth cloud software company focused on Microsoft partner success.