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Marco Boerries joined Yahoo! in 2005 with the acquisition of VerdiSoft and leads the global Connected Life business unit that encompasses the Company's broadband partnerships, digital home initiative, PC client experience and mobile products and strategy. Marco is an established industry leader with a compelling vision for enabling digital mobility across the mobile, broadband, and home networking markets.
Previously Marco founded VerdiSoft in August 2001 to pursue his vision of enabling Digital Mobility across the mobile, broadband, and home networking markets. Prior to founding VerdiSoft, Marco worked at Sun Microsystems as the Vice President and General Manager of Webtop and Application Software. In this role, Marco drove the development of the Solaris Common Desktop Environment, Netscape for Solaris, and OpenOffice.org. As the de facto open source ambassador for Sun, Marco was instrumental in introducing the GNOME project - a free and facile desktop environment for the end-user, and a powerful application framework for the developer.
Marco is also the creator of the popular StarOffice Suite. He founded Star Division at age 16, dropping out of high school to pursue his vision of creating an alternative to Microsoft software. Marco sold StarOffice to Sun Microsystems in August 1999. | 