Claims

Factual · Their own work or organisation

“Chris brings a wealth of experience to this need, serving in senior leadership roles across the marketing function for many years.”

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, internal email · 3 March 2014 · Satya Nadella announces changes to senior leadership team (Microsoft Source)

Chris Capossela has served in senior leadership roles across Microsoft's marketing function for many years.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2014-03-03. True: Microsoft biographies, press releases or reliable profiles show that before March 2014 Chris Capossela had held senior leadership roles in Microsoft's marketing function (e.g. corporate VP or senior VP roles in consumer or Office marketing) spanning several years. Mostly true: he held senior marketing leadership roles, but for a somewhat shorter span or with a mix of marketing and non-marketing roles. Mostly false: his senior roles were mainly outside marketing, with only brief marketing leadership. False: he had held no senior marketing leadership roles at Microsoft before 2014.

Evidence

1. Exclusive: Microsoft vet Capossela leaving job, staying at company GeekWire · 9 March 2011

   “Chris Capossela, the veteran senior vice president inside the division, is leaving his job as the head of marketing for Office and related products, shifting to a new Microsoft role that has yet to be announced.”

2. Exclusive: Microsoft vet Capossela leaving job, staying at company GeekWire · 9 March 2011

   “Today I am announcing the evolution of that leadership as I share with you that Chris Capossela will leave his post as PMG leader, and Kirk Koenigsbauer has been promoted to lead the PMG.”

3. The Grill: Microsoft’s Chris Capossela on Google, Twitter and that Blue Screen of Death Computerworld · 15 December 2009

   “to his current role running marketing for some of Microsoft’s most lucrative products: Office, SharePoint, Exchange, as well as their new hosted equivalents.”

4. Microsoft announces changes to executive team - KitGuru KitGuru · 3 March 2014

   “He has been at the center of Microsoft’s devices and services transformation in SMSG as the worldwide leader of the consumer channels group (CCG), starting with the formation and building of CCG, to overseeing the launch of numerous consumer products from Windows 8/8.1, Surface and Xbox One.”

Reasoning

Computerworld (E3, December 2009) describes Capossela as running marketing for Office, SharePoint and Exchange. GeekWire (E1, E2, March 2011) calls him a veteran senior vice president and head of marketing for Office who was leaving that post. KitGuru (E4, 2014) says he went on to lead the worldwide consumer channels group, overseeing the launch of consumer products including Windows 8/8.1, Surface and Xbox One; the source does not say whether this was a marketing role. Together the sources document senior marketing leadership from at least 2009 to 2011, with GeekWire describing him as a "veteran" senior vice president ([E1]), followed by leadership of the consumer channels group, which the sources do not classify as marketing or otherwise; the evidence supports the claim largely but does not document the full span of "many years".

Cite this claim

Satya Nadella, “Chris Capossela has served in senior leadership roles across Microsoft's marketing function for many years.” (said 3 March 2014). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_a6f9857596f5, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a6f9857596f5