Jon A. Shirley
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Former President and Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Corporation==
Jon A. Shirley was born in San Diego in 1938, graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and then attended MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was with Tandy Corporation for 25 years in many positions, last as vice president Computer Merchandising when he left in 1983 to move to Seattle and become president, chief operating officer and a director of Microsoft Corporation. He retired from Microsoft in 1990 but remains a director. He is also a director of Manzanita Capital, a private financial services company in Seattle.[1]
