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Roberto F. Figueroa
Director of Live Local Search
Microsoft

Roberto (Bobby) F. Figueroa Director of Product Management, Live Local Search, Online Services Group Microsoft Corp.

As director of product management for Live Local Search in the Online Services Group, Roberto (Bobby) F. Figueroa oversees Microsoft Corp.’s outreach to consumers in the areas of local search and mapping. He manages business and marketing strategies for Live Local Search, Live Search for Mobile, and Live Local Search Add-in for Microsoft® Office Outlook®.

Since assuming this role in June 2006, he has guided the launch of the Live Local Search service in September 2006 and assembled the business team responsible for its support. Figueroa and his team strive to advance Microsoft offerings that enable consumers to easily find relevant local information and act on it in more valuable ways.

Figueroa joined Microsoft in August 2001 as a product planner in the MSN® Communication Services group, where he was responsible for the overall product and marketing plans that helped propel the growth of MSN (now Windows Live™) Messenger instant messaging (IM) services from 25 million registered users to 245 million. He also played a key role in guiding the landmark agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to establish interoperability between the Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger consumer instant messaging services. In addition, Figueroa led the product planning and management of MSN® (now Windows Live) Spaces, the weblog (blog) and social networking service, which grew to include more than 150 million users in 18 months.

Previously, Figueroa spent five years as a brand manager for a variety of consumer product lines at Procter & Gamble Co. in Mexico City. He also served as a marketing management intern at Dell Inc., where he created plans for integrating and launching Wi-Fi networking capabilities in the company’s laptop computers.

Figueroa holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a bachelor of science degree in electronics and telecommunications from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City. Figueroa and his wife reside in Kirkland, Wash. Outside work, his interests include water and snow skiing, golf, Xbox® gaming, and playing with the family dog.