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View from the Top: Jeff Raikes: Additional Reading

Friday, February 27, 2009
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Jeff Raikes, CEO Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer, leads the foundation's efforts to promote equity for all people around the world. He sets strategic priorities, monitors results, and facilitates relationships with key partners for all three of our program groups.

Before joining the foundation, Raikes was a member of Microsoft's senior leadership team, which sets overall strategy and direction for the company. Raikes was president of the Microsoft Business Division and oversaw the Information Worker, Server & Tools Business and Microsoft Business Solutions groups. He previously served as group vice president of the Worldwide Sales and Support Group, where he was responsible for providing strategic leadership for Microsoft's sales, marketing, and service initiatives. Before that, he served as senior vice president of Microsoft North America. More

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Melinda and Bill Gates on making a diffrence. BusinessWeek, 2/16/09
An interview with Melinda and Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is presented. Melinda discusses the priorities of the foundation, which focus on global health, global development, and education. Bill comments on how the financial crisis has affected the foundation. The foundation's efforts to provide bed nets to Africa are discussed.
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A profitable view of philanthropy. Financial Times, 12/12/09
Bill Gates shows no sign of either running out of things to say or a desire to stop talking as he discusses the philanthropic foundation that now takes up most of his time.
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Gates Foundation pruning grant growth. Seattle Times , 11/22/08
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is scaling back planned growth in its grant making next year in response to the economic downturn, Chief Executive Jeff Raikes said Friday.
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Retiring Microsoft Official to Run Gates Foundation. New York Times, 5/13/08
A Microsoft executive has been named the new chief executive of the largest foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The man who Raikes in the money for Microsoft. The Guardian, 12/14/06
The president of Microsoft's Business Division (with a turnover of $12.7bn) has come a long way since leaving Apple in 1981.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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