Meredith Amdur

MEREDITH AMDUR
General Manager of Strategy, Online Services Division
Microsoft

Meredith Amdur is General Manager of Strategy for Microsoft’s Online Services Division, responsible for all up strategic planning and development for the consumer Internet search and digital media properties (Bing, MSN and Microsoft Advertising). She previously led new product and business incubation in Microsoft’s Start-up Business Group (SBG), identifying and positioning global R&D technology and research - particularly in the area of Big Data platforms and analytics, natural user interfaces (gesture & touch, voice/image recognition), and data visualization technologies - into commercial products for key business groups such as Office and Azure.

Amdur joined Microsoft in 2007 as head of strategy/biz development for Xbox and the Interactive Entertainment Business, later moving to lead Strategic Planning for Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, an $8 billion portfolio of businesses including Xbox, Windows Mobile, PC Hardware and Windows Embedded Software. Prior to that she served as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP out of New York, managing a range of strategy development, financial and operations improvement projects for client companies in the media & entertainment, publishing, telecommunications and technology space globally. She also served as director of the Media & Content practice for Paris-based satellite industry consultancy, Vista Advisers, providing international strategic planning and market appraisal and valuation services.

Prior to her career in corporate strategy, Amdur spent 15 years in business information publishing covering the film television and digital media industries in the U.S., Europe and Asia, serving as the New York bureau chief of industry trade publication VARIETY magazine and before that as Editorial Director and EVP of Informa Telecoms & Media. There, she ran London, UK editorial operations and was responsible for launching a range of print and online financial publications and databases covering the entertainment and telecoms segments in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Amdur also serves as a member of the board of directors of Wanted Technologies (WAN).

Amdur holds an MBA from Cornell University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.