Jeff Raikes to head Gates' huge charity
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Jeff Raikes, former president of the Microsoft Business Division, will retire in September just in time to take over the reins of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Raikes, who has been with the software company for 26 years, was personally hired away from Apple Computer by now-CEO Steve Ballmer in 1981. Over the years, he has been credited with spawning the Microsoft Office business productivity applications, which quickly grew into one of the company's two main cash cows.
His retirement, which was announced in January, coincides with the pending switch of current foundation head Patty Stonesifer to a new ? as yet undefined ? role at the organization.