Microsoft unit president to retire
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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the top executive in its business software division, will retire in September.
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Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business and one in charge of marketing Windows Vista, and the promotion of more than a dozen others across the company.
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Meg Whitman, the Web-pioneering chief executive of eBay Inc., is preparing to retire after a decade at the helm of the online auctioneer, according to a published report.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit has picked a former Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. executive as its new chief operating officer (COO), the company said Monday. Yasuyuki Higuchi assumed his new position March 1. He was previously president of Japanese retailer Daiei Inc. and served as HP Japan's president. At Microsoft he will be in charge of the company's commercial and enterprise business. "I'm very excited," he said at a Tokyo news conference. "[Commercial] is the area I was heavily involved in at HP Japan ... so the area is one I am really familiar with." Higuchi was an employee of Compaq and came to HP when the two companies merged in 2002. Prior to Compaq he worked at Apple Inc.'s Japan unit between 1994 and 1997. As COO he will report to Darren Huston, president and CEO of Microsoft's Japan unit, Microsoft Co. Ltd. With Higuchi heading up the enterprise business, Huston will concentrate on the consumer sector, he said. "I hope to bring together our assets in a more consistent way," said Huston in an interview with IDG News Service. "We have a very strong portal on the Internet, MSN, we're launching a bunch of Live services, we've got some great products being launched in games for Windows [and] we've launched Vista in its premium version. So it's how do we bring those assets together and make more of an impact." Last week the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business newspaper reported that Higuchi is likely to take over from Huston as Microsoft's Japan president in about a year. Huston addressed the report on Monday and said that he would be here for at least the next financial year but didn't commit to being in Japan beyond that point. Â
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Mark Suwyn, chairman and CEO of Nashville-based Louisiana-Pacific Corp., has announced his retirement.
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CACI International Inc.'s president of U.S. operations, L. Kenneth Johnson, will retire Nov. 1.  The Arlington government contractor said in a statement that the 58-year-old Johnson, its second in command, is leaving "to pursue personal interests." -The Washington Post
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- WellPoint Inc.  said Chief Executive Officer Larry Glasscock will retire effective June 1, but will continue to be the board chairman.
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The head of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Japan unit acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S...
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The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business, Microsoft people aware of the situation said Wednesday.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft executive who helped develop the company'sÂ new Zune music playerÂ and other products is leaving the company, Microsoft said Wednesday. Bryan Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft's entertainment business, "has decided to retire from Microsoft to pursue personal interests," the company said in a prepared statement. Lee reported to Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, who hired Lee in 2000. Bach said during his tenure Lee worked on development and deployment of the Xbox gaming system, the Windows XP Media Center operating system and the company's IP-television initiatives. "I want to extend my thanks to Bryan from the company and from me personally, for all of his contributions to Microsoft," Bach said. The Zune music player,Â introduced in November 2006, has been touted as Microsoft's challenge to the market-leading MP3 player, the iPod from Apple. Zune users can download music or videos from Microsoft's Zune.com Web site to the 30GB player. Unlike the iPod, the Zune is equipped with Wi-Fi. Lee will remain at Microsoft for a few more weeks to assist in the transition, the company said. J. Allard, corporate vice president of design and development, will take over full responsibility for the Zune. Joe Belfiore and Enrique Rodriguez, both corporate vice presidents who had reported to Lee, will now report to Bach.
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Internet security company McAfee Inc. Monday said Stephen Richards, its chief operating officer and chief financial officer, will retire at the end of the year to spend time with his family.
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The longtime software executive, who came over from Apple in 1981, says he's not sure what he'll do when he leaves Microsoft in September, but it will probably be outside of tech.
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Doug Burgum, Microsoft Business Solutions group senior vice president, is stepping aside, turning over his duties to corporate vice president Satya Nadella.
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NOVEMBER 05, 2004  - A Microsoft Corp. vice president this week confirmed that the company intends to continue its track record of shipping a new version of its Office System software every two to three years.
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Nicholas Burns, a key U.S. policymaker on Iran and India and the number three U.S. diplomat, has decided to retire for personal reasons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.
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Microsoft plans to pull the plug on its Office 20003 suite on the last day of June.