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Mark Gillett is a British executive and technologist and is a partner, managing director and Head of Value Creation at Silver Lake Partners one of the largest global technology investment funds. Gillett's experience spans the development of embedded software and devices and large scale cloud services with much of his experience being focused on organisations undergoing operational, management, or technical change as a result of growth, change, of ownership/strategy or failure. He is best known for his work leading and transforming the engineering and operations of Skype, which he took responsibility for as Chief Development and Operations Officer while Skype was an independent company, prior to its acquisition by Microsoft. Gillett served as corporate vice-president for Lync and Skype at Microsoft from 2011–2013 == Microsoft == From Microsoft's acquisition of Skype in 2011, Gillett led Skype's product, engineering and operations globally and in January 2013 when the Microsoft Lync organisation was merged with Skype he also assumed responsibility for the Lync business at Microsoft. From Microsoft's re-organisation in June 2013, Gillett served as Corporate Vice-President of the 'Applications and Services Group'. Gillett led the planning and execution for Skype's integration into Microsoft in addition to the significant re-organization of the product and operations functions as Chief Development and Operating Officer of the company prior to Microsoft's acquisition. Gillett's leadership was marked by significant re-architecture to support mobile clients and Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems in 2012, and significant architectural and design refreshes for Skype's mobile clients in 2013. Gillett announced the company's new architecture in a blog post about a new Skype Windows 8 client in October 2012 (one year after Skype's acquisition by Microsoft and the same week as Windows 8's launch). In October 2013, Gillett shared news of a significant milestone in Skype's migration to the cloud previewing work to complete Skype's delivery of new mobile messaging, notification and calling technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Microsoft Takes Skype to the Cloud For Mobile Era )〕 Under Gillett's leadership, Lync Mobile clients were delivered in March 2013〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Microsoft poised to deliver Lync 2013 apps for iOS )〕 and initial Lync/Skype interoperability was delivered in June 2013. In July 2013, Lync revenue was reported to have accelerated through FY13 to achieve $1Bn for fiscal year ending in June 2013, with over 30% growth reported year on year. In addition to delivering a new architecture and clients for Microsoft's Windows 8 (October 2012),〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Skype )〕 Windows Phone (November 2012),〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Skype )〕 and Xbox platforms, following the acquisition, Gillett and Tony Bates continued to lead the Skype business with a focus on extending Skype reach and engagement from the web, across mobile and at work with key Microsoft products like Internet Explorer (August 2011)〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Skype )〕 Bing(Skype Bing Reward and Bing Bar in February 2012)〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Skype )〕 Outlook (January 2013),〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Skype )〕 and upgrading Windows Live Messenger with Skype.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Skype )〕 In May 2013, the final pillar of the initially promised Skype and Microsoft integrations, Skype on Xbox One was announced during the launch of the new console〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=gamespot.com )〕 and debuted with the console in November 2013. Gillett left Microsoft in late 2013〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top Skype Exec Mark Gillett Departs Microsoft )〕 and replaced Charles Giancarlo as the Head of Value Creation at Silver Lake Partners, where he is responsible for value creation within the firm's portfolio of companies, and manages the firm's operating partner and operating executive team. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Gillett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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