Public Sector, Regional Sales Reorganized

Public sector, regional, and product sales and marketing are among the organizations affected by recent organization changes. Discussed here are changes to the Microsoft corporate organization at the vice-presidential level and above since the Sept. 2004 online issue of the Directions on Microsoft OrgChart. All changes are reflected in the Dec. 2004 issue of the OrgChart.

New Leader for Public Sector Sales

The most notable change in the sales organizations is that Gerri Elliott has replaced Maggie Wilderotter as vice president, Worldwide Public Sector, responsible for all sales and outreach to government and education organizations. Elliott was formerly vice president, Worldwide Industry Solutions Group, a position currently vacant. Elliott, who joined Microsoft in 2001 after 22 years at IBM, will take on Microsoft’s expanded efforts to improve relations with governments, which are key to combating piracy and open-source competition as well as a major market in their own right. Wilderotter has left the company after two years to become CEO of Citizens Communications, a phone company operating in 23 U.S. states.