1. Chris Capossela was born on 1969 and is a former Microsoft executive who was its chief marketing officer for nearly all of the period from 2011 to 2023.
12 Facts About Chris Capossela
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Chris Capossela serves as board chair of the nonprofit Worldreader.
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Chris Capossela joined Microsoft immediately after graduating, moving from his hometown of Boston to Seattle, WA.
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In 1997, Chris Capossela was selected for a two-year assignment as Speech Assistant to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
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In 1998, Chris Capossela was demonstrating Windows 98 plug and play on stage with Gates at the COMDEX Conference when the computer became unresponsive and displayed the Blue Screen of Death.
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In 1999, Chris Capossela relocated to Paris to lead business operations for Microsoft's Europe, Middle East and Africa region, before returning to Redmond in 2001 to assume leadership of Microsoft Project.
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Chris Capossela was promoted to Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Office division in 2003, a role he held until 2011, when he took on leadership of Microsoft's Consumer Channels Group.
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Chris Capossela took over the role from his predecessor Mich Mathews.
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Chris Capossela worked alongside his two brothers, mother and father at his family's Italian restaurant.
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Chris Capossela's family lived in an apartment above the restaurant.
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Chris Capossela began attending Harvard in nearby Cambridge, MA, in 1987.
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Chris Capossela is a board member for a 501 global non-profit called Worldreader, an organization that provides people in the developing world with free access to a library of digital books via e-readers and mobile phones.