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Alex Hazeldine, Partner Enablement Manager at Crayon UK, has more than a decade of experience in the industry, specialising in empowering our partners through strategic initiatives and comprehensive support. His role involves fostering strong relationships, driving partner success, and ensuring seamless collaboration to achieve mutual growth. Alex is also responsible for running our own internal Copilot training program, as well as hosting Copilot webinars and training with our partners and customers.

Claire Williams OBE led the Williams Formula 1 racing team until 2020, in which role she was one of only two women to head a Formula 1 team in the modern era. Under her leadership Williams finished 3rd in the World Championship for Constructors in 2014 and 2015, the team's best performance since 2003. Today she is a global Brand Ambassador for green technologies business Fortescue Zero, formerly WAE Technologies, and one of the expert Formula 1 analysts on the Netflix ‘Drive To Survive’ documentary series through the 2024 and 2025 editions.

With three decades in the IT industry, Greg Smith's diverse experience, from Telecoms to roles at Microsoft and Global Systems Integrators, informs his leadership as Crayon's General Manager. Previously serving as Crayon's Services Director, Greg spearheaded tailored service delivery strategies, ensuring top-tier technology services. Now, as General Manager, he continues to leverage his extensive expertise to drive Crayon's growth and innovation, overseeing all aspects of the company's operations and strategic direction.

Leading Artificial Intelligence and Data Solutions for Crayon in the UK&I, Ian's focus revolves around leveraging generative AI to drive innovation and solve complex challenges for our customers.

Liz Waugh is serving as the Senior Director of Global Go-To-Market (GTM) & Revenue Enablement at Crayon. In this role, Liz leverages her unwavering passion for empowering individuals to thrive in the rapidly evolving tech industry, as well as orchestrating multiple stakeholders to build and execute Crayon's global GTM strategy. With nearly 18 years of experience in the tech sector, including a significant 12 year tenure at Microsoft, Liz seamlessly aligns her dual passions for people and technology. Her strategic approach ensures that Crayon remains at the forefront of innovation and market leadership.

Prerita is currently the Analytics Product & GTM Lead across the UK at Microsoft, overseeing core services including Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks. Previously, Prerita spent 5 years leading the Data & AI Product & GTM portfolio across Australia & NZ, where she pioneered the Azure OpenAI strategy and scaled best practices across the Asia region. Taking a deeply customer centric approach, Prerita works laterally across the organisation, collaborating closely with various technical, sales, partner, engineering and marketing teams to formulate and execute upon the product and go to market strategy for Analytics workloads on Azure across the UK market. Aside from work, Prerita is deeply passionate about inspiring and educating students on exploring careers and opportunities in the Data & AI space, frequently presenting and mentoring at technology and women in STEM events. In her spare time, Prerita enjoys travelling, staying active and seeing her favourite music artists live in concert.

Sarah Miller is the Copilot Market Strategy lead at Microsoft UK, helping organisations understand, fully leverage, and measure the value of AI at work. With a background in retail technology development and financial analysis, Sarah acts as a translator between engineering, business leaders, and customers. Years of experience in public speaking competition and coaching have culminated to her ability to advocate for and demonstrate the safe use of AI in the workplace with Copilot.

Tamara Lajara is responsible for leading a team of Consultants which are focused on maximising business value from customers’ cloud estates. With over a decade of IT experience, Tamara combines her consulting expertise with a research Master's in Information Systems. She is a prominent figure in the FinOps market, serving as a FinOps Foundation Mentor and certified Practitioner. Tamara holds certifications in Azure and Google Cloud, and has specialised training in FinOps for Containers.