Christopher C. Capossela — Executive VP of Marketing & Consumer Business and Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft

Mr. Christopher C. Capossela, also known as Chris, has been the Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Marketing & Consumer Business of Microsoft Corporation since April 6, 2011 and March 2014 respectively. Mr. Capossela served as Senior Vice President of Consumer Channels & Central Marketing Group at Microsoft Corporation from April 6, 2011 to March 2014. He also served as senior vice president of Information Worker Product Management Group at Microsoft Corporation from February 2008 to April 6, 2011. He served as Corporate Vice President of Information Worker Product Management Group and Information Worker Product Management Group at Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Capossela manages the Microsoft Office System of products, which includes desktop applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, Project and Visio, server products such as Office SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Office Communication Server and Project Server and hosted software services such as Office Live, Office Live Meeting and Office Online, all of which deliver end-user productivity and companywide unified communications and collaboration, business intelligence and enterprise content management capabilities. Mr. Capossela is responsible for worldwide product and business management for the Office System. This includes defining pricing, packaging, go-to-markets, branding and advertising, as well as developing sales integration and the partner ecosystem around the world. Mr. Capossela worked for more than 15 years at Microsoft in a variety of marketing, technical and field positions. Most recently he served as General manager of Microsoft Project Business unit in Microsoft Corp. Business Tools division. He also served as chief of staff for the president of Microsoft's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, which is composed of 38 Microsoft subsidiaries and has its headquarters in Paris. For more than two years Mr. Capossela served as Speech manager for Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates. Early in his career at the software company, he served as a Product manager for Microsoft Visual FoxPro?? and Access; he worked for three years as a program manager for Access, Microsoft Corp. database management program and a key product in the Microsoft Office System. While a member of the Access team in 1997, he was granted a U.S. patent for his method of integrating Access with source code control programs such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe??. Mr. Capossela has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Harvard University. He first became interested in computers when, as a boy, he wrote a reservation system for his family's small Italian restaurant in Boston using dBASE for DOS on an early IBM PC. Mr. Capossela lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter. Away from work, he is a movie buff and enjoys playing tennis and traveling.