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REDMOND, Wash. February 14, 2008 —Microsoft Corp. today
announced a series of executive
promotions — seven new senior vice
presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents — reflective of the
company’s commitment to build and maintain a strong and dynamic
management team across its unique portfolio of businesses. The seven
executives promoted to senior vice president are Chris Capossela, Kurt
DelBene, Antoine Leblond, Andy Lees, Satya Nadella, S. Somasegar and
Bill Veghte. The seven executives promoted to corporate vice president
are Walid Abu-Habda, Brad Brooks, Larry Cohen, Steve Guggenheimer,
Scott Guthrie, Roz Ho and Brian Tobey.
“Along with attracting
world-class talent from outside the company, one of my top priorities
is growing Microsoft’s existing leadership team,” said Steve Ballmer,
chief executive officer of Microsoft. “Each of these executives will
play a critical role in leading Microsoft into the future. Today’s
promotions are a result of their ability to think strategically on a
global scale, the respect they’ve earned from their peers, customers
and partners, and their significant contributions to the company.”
The executives promoted to senior vice president now hold these titles and responsibilities:
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Chris Capossela, senior vice president, Information Worker Product Management Group.
Previously corporate vice president, Capossela will continue to manage
the Microsoft Office system products that deliver end-user productivity
applications and services, unified communications and collaboration,
business intelligence, and enterprise content management.
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Kurt DelBene, senior vice president, Office Business Platform Group.
Previously corporate vice president, DelBene will continue to lead the
development of client and server products that provide organizations
with a platform for collaboration, information sharing and business
applications.
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Antoine Leblond, senior vice president, Office Productivity Applications Group.
Previously corporate vice president, Leblond will continue to lead the
design, development and testing of the Microsoft Office suite of
productivity applications and services.
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Andy Lees, senior vice president, Mobile Communications Business.
Previously corporate vice president of the Server & Tools Marketing
and Solutions Group, Lees will oversee the development, marketing and
sales of software and services that power mobile devices for business
and consumer customers worldwide. Lees will fill the role previously
held by Pieter Knook, who made the decision to leave Microsoft to
pursue new opportunities.
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Satya Nadella, senior vice president, Search, Portals & Advertising Group.
Previously corporate vice president, Nadella will continue to lead
Microsoft’s engineering efforts across Live Search, Microsoft adCenter,
and Subscriptions, Points and Billing platforms. He will also take over
responsibility for MSN programming and engineering.
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S. Somasegar, senior vice president, Developer Division.
Previously corporate vice president, Somasegar will continue to oversee
all developer-related languages, tools and platforms within Microsoft.
He also leads Microsoft India Development Center and Microsoft Canada
Development Centre.
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Bill Veghte, senior vice president, Online Services & Windows Business Group. Previously
corporate vice president, Veghte will build upon his leadership of the
Windows business and will take on an expanded role that includes
responsibility for all end-user business strategy, sales and marketing
across Windows Client, Windows Live, MSN and Search. In addition, he
will continue to have shared responsibility for OEM sales.
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Together,
Veghte, Nadella and Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of
Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group, take on expanded
roles running the business strategy, sales, marketing and engineering
efforts for Windows Live, Search and MSN. Each will continue reporting
directly to Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms & Services
Division. Steve Berkowitz will step down as senior vice president of
the Online Services Group. He will remain with the company, focusing on
a smooth transition of the business, until the end of August 2008.
The executives promoted to corporate vice president now hold these titles and responsibilities:
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Walid Abu-Habda, corporate vice president, Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Previously
general manager, Abu-Habda will continue to focus on platform strategy
and evangelism of the Microsoft platform to developers, IT
professionals and partners worldwide.
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Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing. Previously
general manager, Windows Product Marketing, Brooks will oversee global
marketing of Windows to consumers. Brooks will fill the role previously
held by Michael Sievert, who has decided to leave Microsoft to pursue
new endeavors.
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Larry Cohen, corporate vice president, Corporate Communications. Previously
general manager, Cohen will continue to be responsible for the
company’s global communications efforts, spanning public relations,
executive communications and employee communications.
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Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president, Original Equipment Manufacturer Division.
Previously general manager, Application Platform Marketing,
Guggenheimer will move to a new role leading the group that manages
Microsoft’s relationships with the makers of personal computers and
other devices.
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Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform. Previously
general manager, Guthrie will continue to oversee several development
teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer
tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and
Web applications.
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Roz Ho, corporate vice president, Premium Mobile Offerings. Previously
general manager, Ho will lead the new Danger Inc. team and continue to
focus on various consumer-focused premium mobile offerings in mobile
communications.
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Brian Tobey, corporate vice president, Manufacturing and Operations for Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. Previously
vice president, Tobey will continue to oversee all global
manufacturing, supply chain and IT functions within E&D.
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