His responsibilities included serving on the nine member Executive Committee that presided over the overall direction of Microsoft's business ventures and was a senior vice president. His primary concerns were product marketing and development. In 1996-97, he also had responsibility for leading the Microsoft Office division, and 1998-99, he was working part time as a consultant for current chief Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer. Afterwards, he left to found the company Ignition and no longer is employed by Microsoft.