Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Mehdi is the new head of marketing and business development for MSN and search at Microsoft, taking over duties from Bill Veghte.
Microsoft News Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... search properties. He takes most of the job’s marketing and search tasks off the plate of Bill Veghte, the senior VP now focusing mainly on the Windows and Windows Live groups; Veghte picks up a new title, Senior Vice President for the Windows Business. But Medhi isn’t stepping into the top spot for the online properties group, leaderless since Kevin Johnson jumped for Juniper...
ClickZ (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Microsoft Gives Mehdi New Role in Online ServicesBy , The ClickZ Network, Sep 30, 2008 | | | Microsoft has placed long-time exec Yusuf Mehdi in charge of a piece of its Online Services division. As online audience business leader, Mehdi's new responsibilities include global product management, U.S. marketing, and business development for search and MSN. With the appointment, Bill Veghte...
The Register (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... marketing and product management for MSN and the search properties, according to .That move allows Bill Veghte to concentrate solely on online services and mergers and acquisitions, where Microsoft has been heavily foraging of late.Johnson, who led MS’s failed bid to buy Yahoo!, moved to Juniper in July after more than 15 years with the company.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who will...
Brier Dudley's blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... next version of Windows surfacing later this month, it makes sense to lighten the load carried by Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows and online services. Veghte had been leading Windows, Windows Live, search and MSN; now the latter two are moving to Mehdi.Brian McAndrews continues to run the advertising side of the business, and Satya Nadella will continue leading...
BoomTown - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
... Kevin Johnson in late July . Mehdi is essentially getting a part of the portfolio of Microsoft SVP Bill Veghte, who will now be primarily focused on Windows and Windows Live business groups. Mehdi was previously the SVP for strategic partnerships under Johnson. Mehdi is now part of a troika that includes: Brian McAndrews, who the SVP for the advertiser and publisher solutions group;...
