Brian Valentine

H. Brian Valentine (born November 28, 1959 in Centralia, Washington) is the Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform at Amazon.com. Previously he was a senior vice president of the Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD) at Microsoft where he was responsible for overseeing the development of core Windows technologies such as networking and the kernel. He was also the executive primarily responsible for the development of Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and he held the same role for the majority of Windows Vista's development cycle.

On August 1, 2006, Microsoft [http://news.com.com/Microsoft+reshuffles+executives/2100-1012_3-6100954.html announced] that Valentine would leave his post as head of COSD and pursue other opportunities within the company after the release of Vista, expected to happen in November 2006. Jon DeVaan, senior vice president of Engineering Excellence, would join the Platform division and eventually replace Valentine. On September 1, 2006, this transition was accelerated when Valentine left Microsoft to take a position at Amazon.com. [cite news
url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003244652_.html
title=Microsoft veteran Valentine moving to Amazon
author=Benjamin Romano
publisher=Seattle Times
date=September 5 2006
accessdate=2006-09-05]

Valentine holds a B.S. in computer science from Eastern Washington University.http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=156737 Brian Valentine's Bio - Amazon.com Investor Relations]

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* [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=156737 Brian Valentine Bio at Amazon.com]
* [http://news.com.com/Microsoft+reshuffles+executives/2100-1012_3-6100954.html Microsoft reshuffles executives] , CNET News.com