Microsoft Executive Will Lead Gates Charity

A well-known Microsoft Corp. executive was named to lead the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation into a period that will test how well it can effectively distribute an unprecedented amount of money.

Jeff Raikes, a 27-year Microsoft veteran, will become chief executive, the Seattle-based foundation said Monday. He will succeed Patty Stonesifer, who has overseen the philanthropic activities of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, since the 1990s.

Full-text article by Robert A. Guth is available via The Wall Street Journal, 5.13.08. [Subscription required.]

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