Microsoft's UK commercial partners boss Joe Macri has announced his retirement from the company but intends sticking around in the market. He will leave Microsoft on 30 June after 24 years at the company, which includes spending 13 years in international roles at the firm.
The vice president said: “Although I am retiring from full time employment, I will be pursuing a non-executive career with a variety of technology and not-for-profit organisations, but more on that closer to the summer.”
He said: “I have been truly fortunate to work with so many colleagues, partners and customers across 30 countries.”
In his various roles Macri helped establish the the UK SMB business, created and led the Irish subsidiary, helped launch the commercial cloud business in Western Europe and led Microsoft’s EMEA public sector activities, before returning to the UK to head the commercial partner business in July 2017. Macri will continue in that role until the summer to enable a smooth transition to his successor, he said. Microsoft has so far not announced who that will be.
