Robin Cole

Speaker Bio

Robin Cole is an accomplished business development, marketing, and engineering executive with 25 years of experience in Fortune 100 companies and startups. Her professional experience includes Sony, where she managed worldwide Strategy and Business Development for Sony Electronics and Sony Corporation, including 3 years at Sony HQ Tokyo, Japan; Apple, where she led Program Management efforts across the MacBook portfolio of products; Microsoft where she held a number of marketing, business development, sales and engineering leadership roles across a variety of products and services. In addition to these market leading technology companies, Robin also held the position of VP of Marketing and Business Development at a digital media startup that was sold to Turner Broadcasting; VP of Business Development, Marketing and Product Development in the aerospace industry; and COO of an IoT technology company in Seattle before returning to Microsoft to lead a team focused on AI co-innovation and co-engineering as part of Industry Solution Engineering. Robin graduated from the University of San Francisco in 2000 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Management of Information Systems.