Wilfrid is a 14-year Microsoft veteran who has been with the MacBU since its inception in 1997 where he most recently was a product unit Manager. You can find a note from him on the Mac Mojo blog later today.

As general manager for the MacBU, Wilfrid's responsibilities include managing the strategic vision and direction for all of MacBU’s software and online products developed for the Mac platform, managing the business relationship with Apple and leading one of the largest teams of Mac-focused developers outside Apple. Prior to his role as general manager, he was a product unit manager for the MacBU in the Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. Wilfrid managed the team of engineers in Mountain View who work with the MacBU team.

Wilfrid joined Microsoft in August 1994 as a developer working on the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation graphics program. A charter member of MacBU, he joined the team in 1997 and contributed to Office for Mac as a developer, development lead and group program manager before becoming a product unit manager. In addition to seven releases of Office (five for the Mac, two for Windows), Wilfrid contributed to the releases of Internet Explorer, MSN and Virtual PC on the Macintosh platform. He earned a bachelor of arts in computer science from Harvard University.

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