Economic Club Of Minnesota

Mark Penn, Pollster for President Bill Clinton Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation Mark Penn is Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft Corporation, responsible for working on core strategic issues across Microsoft's products, value propositions, and investments and leading the company's competitive research and analysis. Penn reports to CEO Satya Nadella and serves on Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team. He oversees an interdisciplinary strategy team and works with product and other teams across the company. Previously, Penn was worldwide CEO of Burson-Marsteller and CEO of Penn Schoen Berland, serving as senior adviser to global corporate and political leaders including Bill Gates, Bill Ford, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bill Clinton. For six years, Penn served as White House Pollster to President Clinton and was a key strategy adviser in his 1996 re-election,