Mike Austin is the Founder and CEO at MetrixData 360. Mike has over 20 years of Microsoft licensing experience and has helped numerous Fortune 500 organizations with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA) negotiations, deep SAM and FinOps expertise, as well as expert Audit Defense and Data Integrity services.

Previously, Mike was employed by Microsoft for over 8 years as a member of the global sales execution team responsible for the development of Software Assurance (SA) benefits. With Microsoft, Mike successfully negotiated more than a billion dollars in new and renewal EAs. Mike has also negotiated legal terms and conditions for all software agreements, developed Microsoft’s best practices for global account management, and was awarded Microsoft’s Gold Star Award in 2003 and Circle of Excellence in 2008 for his contributions.