Lisa Brummel is Microsoft’s Chief People Officer. She has been in charge of HR too since taking on this position in 2005. Other positions she has held at the company include: Corporate VP of its Home & Retail Division; in charge of global operations and localization for the company’s retail business; GM of Consumer Productivity Business; Product Unit Manager of Microsoft’s Kids business; Product Unit Manager of Desktop and Decision reference products; head of Product marketing for the Interactive Media Division, the Visual FoxPro database product group and Microsoft’s line of applications for Macintosh. Brummel has been with the company since 1989.