As the AI Battle Rages, Yusuf Mehdi Becomes the Latest Microsoft Veteran to Walk

As the AI Battle Rages, Yusuf Mehdi Becomes the Latest Microsoft Veteran to Walk

After 35 years with the company, the chief consumer marketing officer will leave next year.

A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year

Yusuf Mehdi speaks at Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC event in May 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Yusuf Mehdi, one of Microsoft’s best-known and longest-serving business leaders, whose tenure has spanned 35 years from Windows 3.1 to Copilot, plans to leave the company after one more year — his “final season,” as he called it in an interview. Mehdi, 59, is Microsoft’s EVP and consumer chief marketing officer, overseeing product marketing for Window…

Microsoft veteran executive Yusuf Mehdi is leaving after the next fiscal year, an internal memo shows

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