He takes the place of Cecilia Flombaum, who was with the company for more than 21 years. Jensen joined Microsoft in March 2001 and has held several channel leadership roles. Much of his career at Microsoft was as director of Dynamics U.S. Partner Programs for 10 years two months, starting in March 2012. He was then director of U.S. sales operations for five years six months from November 2016.