by PBA Editor
July 6, 2003 19:00
Chris Peters is one of the founders of Ignition Corporation, a holding company designed to fund, mentor and build 'wireless Internet' start-up companies.
Prior to working at Ignition, Peters was an 18-year veteran of Microsoft Corporation, starting as the 105th employee with the company. Peters helped develop a variety of Microsoft's early products like MS-DOS 2.0, Windows 1.0 and Word 1.0. Mr. Peters led the Excel development team for 5 years, after which he was promoted to General Manager of Microsoft Word, and later to Vice President of Microsoft Office development.
In 1996 Peters led the acquisition of Vermeer Technologies (a Harvard Business School case study). Under Peters' guidance, the Vermeer Technologies product "FrontPage" became the leading tool for website development.
Peters is a bowling enthusiast and leads a weekly American Bowling Congress (ABC) sanctioned league comprised of former and current Microsoft Executives.
Peters has a BSEE degree and MSEE degree, both from the University of Washington.
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