Cyril Belikoff
Vice President: Commercial Cloud & AI Marketing, Microsoft
Cyril Belikoff is listed as Vice President: Commercial Cloud & AI Marketing, Microsoft. Cyril is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 17 November 2026.
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About
Originally from South Africa, Cyril Belikoff is a business builder and customer-first leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, leadership and culture. Cyril leads a team responsible for bringing Microsoft’s Azure & AI solutions to market for customers of all sizes and partnering with Microsoft’s ecosystem. Throughout a career spanning more than 30 years at Microsoft, Cyril has taken on a variety of leadership positions, fueling multi-billion-dollar expansion, launching new ventures, and developing innovative business models. Cyril is known for creating clarity in complex environments, building high trust, inclusive cultures, and mentoring future leaders. He believes deeply that culture drives business outcomes and is passionate about fostering environments where people can do their best work.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- The Partner Path to Growth: Turning AI Ambition into Customer Impact Speaker · 17 November 2026
- Build the future of software on Microsoft Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Frontier Accelerate: Microsoft benefits that help you move forward Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Cyril at events on B2DB.
- Adam Holmes Publicis 1 shared session
- Alex Iovine Principal PM, Data & AI, Office of CTO Asia · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Ann Choi General Manager, Enterprise Partner Commercial Solution Areas and Marketing · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Anoop Gopinatha Gopinatha Global Managing Director of Industry Gen AI, Microsoft AI and Center for Advanced AI · Accenture 1 shared session
- Gaelle Thurau Partner General Manager, Copilot GTM Marketing · Microsoft 1 shared session
- John Held Sr. Director - Partner Marketing · Icertis 1 shared session
- Parker Johnston Agentic Field CTO · Insight 1 shared session
Others from Microsoft
- Christian Sarafidis Chief Executive EMEA Financial Services 13 sessions
- Tyler Pichach Global Head of AI Strategy and GTM for Payments and Banking 12 sessions
- Justin Garrett Principal Program Manager Lead, DevRel, Azure Experiences & Ecosystems, Cloud + AI Engineering 10 sessions
- Karuana Gatimu Director, Scale Experience Group 10 sessions
- Heather Cook Principal PM Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group 9 sessions
- Nitya Narasimhan Senior Cloud Advocate (AI) 9 sessions
- Brad Smith Vice Chair and President 8 sessions
- Lee Stott Principal Cloud Advocate - Core AI 8 sessions
- Lorena Mora Senior Product Manager | Microsoft Intune & Windows 8 sessions
- Sonia Cuff Cloud Advocate Lead - Cloud Native & Linux Advocacy 8 sessions
- Bethany Jepchumba Developer Relations 7 sessions
- Paolo Pialorsi Senior Developer Advocate 7 sessions