Microsoft Announces Hiring of New MBS CVP of Marketing Wayne Morris

Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) has announced another addition to its leadership team today. Wayne Morris will become the new corporate vice president, Microsoft Business Solutions, Marketing.  In his role, he will be responsible for setting the marketing and communications strategy for the business group. 

Earlier this year, Neil Holloway was introduced as a new corporate vice president of sales and operations as Michael Park departed for the Server and Tools group.  Microsoft clarified at that time that Neil was not taking over all of Park's responsibilities, presumably the marketing-oriented parts. Park had been a champion and evangelist for the Dynamics product line, going after competitors' products and pushing the strengths of Dynamics CRM and ERP with promotions and marketing messaging.

"[W]ith the appointment of Wayne, the division has a strong leadership team in place to move the MBS business forward," a spokesperson told us.

Here's more about Wayne Morris from a Microsoft spokesperson:

A proven entrepreneur, Wayne has more than 25 years of experience in executive management, strategy, marketing, sales and technical roles in software, services and hardware companies. Most recently Wayne was CEO and board member of myDIALS, a SaaS start-up that delivers business intelligence providing real-time insight directly to operational decision makers, where he created the company vision, formed successful partnerships with other software companies and successfully negotiated the acquisition of the company by Adaptive Planning, a complementary SaaS vendor to ensure higher growth.  He has also held senior leadership positions at McData Corporation, a storage area network vendor,  Citect Corporation, BMC Software, Enterprise Software Corp. ...