Christopher Young

Executive Vice President, Business Development, Strategy and Ventures, Microsoft

Christopher Young is Executive Vice President of business development, strategy and ventures at Microsoft. He is responsible for driving growth across the company by establishing strategic partnerships, setting corporate strategy and identifying high impact investments through Microsoft’s corporate venture arm. Young is the former CEO of McAfee, LLC (2014-2020). In 2017 he led the initiative to spin McAfee out of Intel to become a standalone company. Under his leadership, McAfee grew to protect mission-critical systems and data for more than two-thirds of the Global 2000 and more than 500 million consumers. Young currently serves on the board of directors for American Express. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.