Terry Myerson

Former longtime Microsoft executive Terry Myerson will join two investment firms, he said Tuesday October 23 2018, about seven months after announcing he would leave the Redmond tech giant. Myerson has been named a venture partner at Seattle firm Madrona Venture Group, and operating executive at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in Washington, D.C. After 21 years at Microsoft, Myerson left the company earlier this year after the company’s latest reorganization, which was designed to prioritize cloud-computing technologies and shifted the focus away from the Windows operating system. Myerson joined the company in 1996 when Microsoft bought the internet-marketing startup he founded, and went on to prominent roles including overseeing Xbox, Exchange and the attempt at a Windows Phone before leading the entire Windows business for five years. In his time off from Microsoft, Myerson said he learned to play a bit of piano, brushed up on his golf game and volunteered with the Seattle Foundation, before looking for his next job. Myerson has started work part-time at both Madrona and Carlyle.