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Terry Myerson (born 1972 or 1973) is an American venture partner at
Madrona Venture Group Madrona Venture Group is an American venture capital firm, founded in 1995 and based in Seattle, Washington. Madrona specializes in seed, startup, Series A and early stage investments. Company Madrona was founded in 1995 by Tom Alberg, Paul Go ...
and an operating executive at
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. Myerson was previously an Executive Vice President at
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, and head of its Windows and Devices Group. Myerson graduated from
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 1992 and founded Intersé Corporation, which
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purchased in 1997. At Microsoft, he led software and engineering teams behind Microsoft Exchange and
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before being promoted to lead Microsoft's newly formed operating systems engineering division in July 2013. In March 2018, Myerson announced that he would leave Microsoft after a transition period. In October 2018, Myerson announced his new roles at Madrona Venture Group and The Carlyle Group in a post on his LinkedIn page.


Education and career

Myerson attended
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
, where he studied in the college of arts and sciences for a semester before choosing a mechanical engineering major. While in college, he worked as a waiter and a part-time graphics creator at the
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. Upon graduation in 1992, he worked in computer graphics before starting his own company, Intersé Corporation, which made websites and data mining software before being acquired by
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
in 1997. Myerson received $16.5 million in stock with the acquisition.


Microsoft

At Microsoft, Myerson worked in business Internet services and server applications, including Site Server,
BizTalk Server Microsoft BizTalk Server is an inter-organizational middleware system (IOMS) that automates business processes through the use of ''adapters'' which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in an enterprise. Created by M ...
, and
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. He joined the corporate email and calendar Microsoft Exchange software team in 2001, which he led for eight years. He became the head of mobile engineering near the end of 2008, and called a meeting in December that scrapped Microsoft's
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product and programming code in favor of a completely rebuilt system designed to better compete with the iPhone. He was promoted to lead the
Windows Phone Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design la ...
operation in 2011, directly reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer. Myerson restructured the mobile team, and was responsible for hiring
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, who later redesigned the Windows Phone interface. Myerson also connected Microsoft with
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's hardware division via a personal relationship with Nokia's executive vice president of smart devices, which grew into Microsoft's biggest Windows Phone partnership. In July 2013, Myerson was promoted to executive vice president of Microsoft's new
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engineering division, which controlled
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as well as Windows Phone, Xbox system software, and various services. ''
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'' called Myerson "the most important man at Microsoft" after the company's executive reorganization. In 2015, Microsoft merged their Devices Group into the Operating Systems Group to form a new Windows and Device Group which was led by Myerson and which was responsible for Windows operating systems, Xbox system, Windows back-end services and the Surface and HoloLens lineup of hardware products. In March 2018 Microsoft announced it would split the Windows & Devices division into Experiences & Devices and Cloud & AI and that Myerson would leave.


Personal life

He has a wife and three children. He is a member of the
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Board of Trustees and a member of the Board of Visitors at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. His younger brother works at Microsoft. Myerson organized the purchase of a minority stake in the
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of
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with 10 Seattle-area families, including Microsoft CEO
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.


See also

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Julie Larson-Green Julie Larson-Green (born 1962) is the former chief experience officer (CXO) of the Office Experience Organization at Microsoft, where she worked 1993 through 2017. She subsequently joined Qualtrics as their CXO. Larson-Green notably managed th ...


References

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