Robin Domeniconi

Exclusive: Microsoft U.S. Ad Sales VP Domeniconi to Depart, While Exec From MTV Arrives to Run Global Online Sales

Kara Swisher in News on June 3, 2010 at 1:01 am PT

According to sources, Robin Domeniconi (far right), Microsoft’s VP for U.S. Advertising Sales, Publishing and Marketing, will be leaving the company. While Domeniconi is leaving, sources also said Microsoft is close to hiring Carolyn Everson (left) of MTV Networks to head up its online ad sales force globally.

Microsoft on the Hunt for a New Head of World-Wide Online Sales, Even as Yahoo Talks Continue

Kara Swisher in News on April 30, 2009 at 8:01 am PT

Microsoft is searching for a major executive to run its world-wide online sales, said several sources close to the situation, even as talks with Yahoo about a deal to partner in its search and display advertising businesses continue. “They need to find a way to make money in display,” said one source close to the situation. “Or, I guess, find a way to not lose quite so much.” The software giant has been trying to build its online business for many years now, spending a lot of money and not getting very much traction. Meanwhile, the talks Microsoft has been having with Yahoo about outsourcing its online display sales to the Internet giant, among other scenarios, continue.