(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) has announced a former Yahoo executive, Qi Lu, will join the company as president of its Online Services Group, where he will lead Microsoft’s search and online search and advertising efforts, as well as all its information and communication services.
At 47, Lu has held many senior positions, including his most recent as executive vice president of engineering for Yahoo’s (www.yahoo.com) Search and Advertising Technology Group, where he was headed development of Yahoo’s Web search and monetization platforms.
Lu left Yahoo in August 2008 after 10 years of service, where he had previously held positions as vice president of engineering, responsible for the technology development including the company’s search, e-commerce, and local listings of businesses and products.
“I am tremendously excited to welcome Qi to Microsoft,” Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said in a statement. “Dr. Lu’s deep technical expertise, leadership capabilities and hard-working mentality are well-known in the technology industry, and Microsoft will benefit from his addition to our executive management team.”
Lu will report directly to Balmer when he starts his new position at Microsoft January 5, 2009.
“I am genuinely excited about the opportunities ahead for Microsoft to make an enormous impact on the online industry,” Lu said in a statement. “Microsoft has built a great foundation for its search and advertising technologies and put an amazing team of researchers and engineers in place to drive the next wave of innovation in online services. I’m looking forward to working with them to help transform the way people and businesses use the Internet to find and share information.”
Lu holds 20 patents, and received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Yahoo in 1998, Lu was a research staff member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. Before IBM, Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member.
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