Sarah Bond
Born1978 (age 45)
Morristown, New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
Education
EmployerMicrosoft Gaming (2017–present)
TitlePresident of Xbox
AwardsVentureBeat Visionary Award (2022)

Sarah Bond is an American business executive and the current president of Xbox at Microsoft overseeing the entire brand's operations as a platform and ecosystem, including hardware and devices, player and creator experiences, platform engineering, strategy, business planning, data and analytics, and business development and partnerships.[1]

Career

Sarah Bond started her career as associate partner at McKinsey & Company.[2]

She worked for T-Mobile as chief of staff to then CEO John Legere and later became a senior vice president of corporate strategy and development.[3]

In 2017, she joined Microsoft. She was a corporate vice president overseeing gaming business development and partnerships at Xbox,[4] and later as corporate vice president of game creator experience and ecosystem.[3]

She was a key figure representing Microsoft in front of courts and regulators during the company's scrutinized bid to acquire Activision Blizzard, including testifying at the 2022 FTC v. Microsoft trial.[5][6]

She received the Visionary Award from GamesBeat in 2022.[7]

On October 26, 2023, Sarah Bond was promoted to president of Xbox, reporting directly to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer.[8]

She is on the boards of Zuora,[9] Chegg,[10] and the ESA.[11]

Personal life

Sarah Bond is an Economics graduate from Yale University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.[12][3] She lived in the United Kingdom for ten years for education before moving back to the United States.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Warren, Tom (2023-10-26). "Read Phil Spencer's full Microsoft memo on the new Xbox leadership changes". The Verge. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  2. ↑ "Speaker Details Page". www.dicesummit.org. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  3. 1 2 3 "Sarah Bond". Archives of IT. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  4. ↑ blackentrepreneurprofile.com. "Sarah Bond". Black Entrepreneur & Executives Profiles. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  5. ↑ Plant, Logan (2023-06-22). "Sarah Bond: Xbox Cloud Is Game Pass Ultimate's Least Popular Feature, Says Service Running at a Loss". IGN. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  6. ↑ "Xbox claims Activision demanded a bigger revenue share to put Call of Duty on Series X/S". VGC. 2023-06-23. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  7. ↑ "Visionary Awards honor Microsoft's Sarah Bond and Arkane's Dinga Bakaba". VentureBeat. 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  8. ↑ "Microsoft Appoints Sarah Bond As The New President Of Xbox, Making Her The First Black Woman In The Role At A Major Gaming Company". Yahoo Finance. 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  9. ↑ "These women could be the next Fortune 500 CEOs". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  10. ↑ "Chegg Appoints Sarah Bond to Board of Directors". investor.chegg.com. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  11. ↑ FUTURE of XBOX & The Metaverse: Sarah Bond, retrieved 2023-11-07
  12. ↑ "Sarah Bond". Variety. 2020-12-22. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  13. ↑ Exclusive: Sarah Bond Talks What's Coming Up For Xbox in 2023, retrieved 2023-11-09
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