
Gayle has been driving marketing innovations at Microsoft for more than 13 years. She founded the industry's first digital branded entertainment team (BEET) at MSN. She purchased some of the first offline advertising for a dot.com brand while heading up marketing for Microsoft's Sidewalk and internet start-up businesses back in 1997. And she is currently breaking new ground everyday, as GM of Advertising for the wide range of audiences and brands Microsoft engages with around the globe.
Gayle's team is responsible for global advertising, relationship marketing and digital strategy for Microsoft's consumer, business to business and developer focused products and services including: Windows, Office, Windows Live, SQL Server and more.
Prior to Microsoft, Gayle spent ten years in the NYC agency world managing consumer marketing and business development programs at Manning, Selvage & Lee and NW Ayer for a range of clients making everything from soft wear to footwear.
She has a Bachelor of Science from Ithaca College and was born and raised in Rhode Island.
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