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Team on 01 December 2006
New Corporate Vice President for
Microsoft
Maria Martinez comes to the Microsoft Worldwide Services organisation from her current role as the corporate vice president of the Communications Sector
Microsoft has announced that Maria Martinez has been named corporate vice president of Worldwide Services, effective Jan 5, 2007 Martinez will continue in her role as corporate vice president of the Communications Sector at Microsoft through the remainder of the calendar year
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Martinez will work with Rick Devenuti, who recently announced his plans to retire from his role as senior vice president of Worldwide Services, as she transitions into her new role.
"Maria brings a strong track record to the services business of driving impressive results for the company," said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft.
"I have great confidence in her leadership and the team's ability to continue our success in building our worldwide services business while successfully upholding our commitments to the partner channel".
Martinez comes to the Microsoft Worldwide Services organisation from her current role as the corporate vice president of the Communications Sector.
Microsoft's Communications Sector works with service and content providers around the globe, addressing the specific needs of wireline and wireless telecommunications companies, cable operators, hosting service providers, and media and entertainment organisations.
Before joining Microsoft, Martinez served as CEO of a startup software vendor in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Before that, Martinez was a vice president at Motorola.
Martinez has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, and a master's degree in computer engineering from Ohio State University.
Following college, Martinez worked for the prestigious Bell labouratories for 12 years, developing and patenting disk storage systems and leading development of UNIX systems for symmetric multiprocessing and high availability.
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