Anthony Bates

Anthony Bates

Chief Executive Officer at Skype Technologies SA

57 year
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Anthony J.
Bates
is currently the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Genesys Cloud Services, Inc. He is also the Chief Executive Officer & Director at Skype Technologies SA and a Director at Tipping Point Community.
In the past, Mr. Bates held positions such as Chief Executive Officer at Skype SARL, Chief Executive Officer at Skype Ltd., and Chief Executive Officer at Skype, Inc. He was also the Vice Chairman at Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., an Independent Director at eBay, Inc., and a Director at YouTube LLC, Bubbly, Inc., and Big Switch Networks LLC.
Additionally, he served as an Independent Director at VMware, Inc. from 2016 to 2023.
Other former positions include being a Director at TokBox, Inc., Sirius XM Radio, Inc., Amazon Digital UK Ltd., GoPro, Inc., Netskope, Inc., and Sirius XM Holdings, Inc. He also worked at Cisco Systems, Inc. as the SVP, GM-Enterprise, Commercial & Small Business from 2009 to 2010.
Furthermore, he was the Executive VP-Business Development & Evangelism at Microsoft Corp.
from 2013 to 2014 and held the position of Principal at Internet MCI.
Mr. Bates was also the President & Chief Operating Officer at Intellectual Ventures LLC from 2010 to 2017.

Anthony Bates active positions

CompaniesPositionStart
Chief Executive Officer 2010-11-02
Director/Board Member 2012-06-13
Chief Executive Officer 2019-04-30
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Former positions of Anthony Bates

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VMWARE, INC. Director/Board Member 2023-11-21
EBAY INC. Director/Board Member 2022-06-07
VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS, INC. Director/Board Member 2019-04-30
President 2017-06-30
GOPRO, INC. President 2016-11-30
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CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.

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MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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GOPRO, INC.

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SIRIUS XM HOLDINGS INC.

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Skype, Inc.

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