CMO Services was founded by Ed Graczyk, a seasoned marketing executive with more than twenty years of experience developing and executing marketing strategies, building and managing marketing teams, and launching new products and services around the world.For the last sixteen years, Ed held a variety of leadership positions at Microsoft Corporation, at both corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington and in New York City.Some of his notable achievements include:
Built and led the global marketing and communications team for the Microsoft TV division, which develops and markets award-winning software platforms for pay-TV service providers (cable, satellite and IPTV/Internet TV).Customers and partners include AT&T, BT, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Motorola and Philips, to name a few.
Led the research, development and global launch of the Microsoft Mediaroom brand, which is used as both a business-to-business product brand as well as a business-to-consumer ingredient brand by major service providers around the world.Microsoft Mediaroom is now used by more than 2 million consumers around the world.
Named and led the launch activities for the first version of Microsoft's Instant Messaging services, which are used by more than 200 million people globally today.
Led the marketing activities for the award-wining MSN Money, one of the top financial Web sites in the world.
Launched and managed all marketing programs for more than 45 original web-based entertainment properties for MSN, working closely with major studios and content providers to develop co-marketing and customer acquisition and retention programs.
Managed Microsoft’s relationships with the money center banks in New York City, negotiating and closing some of the company’s largest corporate standardization agreements for Microsoft solutions at the time.
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