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Wade Tyler Millward
Microsoft has hired multiple executives this year from Google, AWS, Salesforce and VMware among other cloud rivals.
A corporate vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa recruited from Amazon Web Services. Another CVP with a history at Salesforce. And a vice president of messaging and real time analytics platform from Google.
These are some of the biggest hires for Microsoft this year with track records from some of the Redmond, Wash.-based vendor’s biggest rivals in cloud computing.
The hires come as these tech titans compete over a scarcity of technical talent to further practices around cloud, business applications and industry-focused products and services.
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Some of these major Microsoft hires from competitors include:
*Darren Hardman, CVP, EMEA
*Jonathan Hunt, CVP, Business Applications
*Yitzhak Kesselman, VP, Messaging and Real Time Analytics Platform
Read on for more about Microsoft’s biggest hires so far this year from rivals.
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