Igor Guss is part of Ingram Micro Cloud, a dedicated global business unit to support channel partners’ Cloud adoption globally. After holding various individual contributor roles, such as BDM Cloud or Partner Manager Cloud, he was promoted to take over and expand the newly founded Infrastructure-as-a-Service business unit with responsibility for Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Within the last 2 years, the unit grew to now 15 full time employees showcasing not only the accelerating adoption of the German Cloud market for IaaS services, but also the strong focus Ingram Micro Cloud’s on delivering outstanding value-add to their partners. Next to his love for sports, you can always have a conversation with Igor on US Late Night shows or book recommendations for personal development.
In this episode Igor highlights his milestones to become a people manager. In the podcast he explained the steps to create a team out of blueprints and what sources to leverage to get started with a newly formed team. He unravels his challenges as people manager: retention. Further more he reveals his most important aspect of leadership: trust and transparency. With the two pillars of stability: he shares how to get the buy in and contribution of your team with the right LEVEL of transparency and engagement.
