Christopher C Capossela has sold MSFT and made no open-market buys since Feb 2016

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Christopher C. Capossela is a senior technology and marketing executive best known for his more than three-decade career at Microsoft Corporation, where he ultimately served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), leading worldwide marketing across both consumer and commercial businesses.( Joining Microsoft in 1991 straight out of Harvard, he held roles including program manager for Microsoft Access, speech assistant to Bill Gates, general manager for Microsoft Project, corporate vice president for Office marketing, and worldwide leader of the Consumer Channels Group before being promoted to CMO in 2014, where he oversaw product marketing, brand, advertising, events, communications, research, and digital and retail partner sales for all Microsoft products and services.( Over his tenure he played a key role in major strategic shifts such as the evolution of Microsoft Office from on‑premises software to the subscription-based Office 365 service.(

Capossela holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and is recognized as an influential voice in technology and marketing, now serving on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards, including Lumen Technologies, where he joined the board of directors in 2024, as well as other innovation-focused organizations.( Originally from Boston, he developed an early interest in computing by writing a reservation system for his family’s Italian restaurant using dBASE for DOS, a formative experience that helped launch his career at Microsoft and ultimately his role as one of the company’s longest-serving executive leaders.(

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