Tony Bates
| Tony Bates | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anthony J. Bates 29 April 1967 Isleworth, West London, UK |
| Residence | Los Altos, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Former President of GoPro Inc Former Executive Vice President for Business Development & Evangelism at Microsoft Former CEO of Skype |
| Spouse(s) | Cori Bates |
| Children | 4 |
Anthony J. "Tony" Bates (born 29 April 1967) is the former president of GoPro, and former executive vice president of Microsoft responsible for business development, strategy and evangelism and former CEO of Skype.
Bates, a university drop out began his career in network operations and internet infrastructure. Bates has served on the boards of many technology companies, including YouTube, the video-sharing website; TokBox, a PaaS provider of video conference API's; BubbleMotion, a voice-based messaging and blogging service; and LoveFilm, an online video streaming and rental service. He first applied his experience to large scale consumer products and services following Cisco's acquisition of the Scientific Atlanta set-top box business and subsequently as Chief Executive Officer of Skype Technologies. Bates has also served on a number of public boards. He served on the board of SiriusXM and currently serves on the boards of Ebay, VMware and GoPro. Bates also published a number of IETF RFCs and holds a number of patents
Bates was born April 29, 1967, in Isleworth, West London. He came from humble beginnings, raised in Teddington by his hairdresser mother and stepfather who worked as a builder. Like many Silicon Valley CEOs before him, he never finished university. At 19, he dropped out of his mechanical engineering program at South Bank Polytechnic.
Bates’ first job was at the University of London as a network operator in the computer center where he worked from 1986 to 1992. During his time at the university, his commute was one hour by train each way. He capitalized on this commute time by teaching himself the C programming language and by learning UNIX through DEC manuals. Bates was fortunate to be involved in the early days of the Internet running the Arpanet gateways between the U.S. and the U.K. Bates helped transition the U.K. academic network JANET from the academic to TCP/IP, helping to create the JANET IP Service (JIPS).
He left the University of London Computer Centre in 1992 to work in Amsterdam on a Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne (RARE)-funded project as part of the RIPE NCC, an organization responsible for establishing the Europe IP registry and a number of operational standards for European networking. In 1994, he moved to Virginia, which at the time was considered the nexus of the Internet. He worked on the strategy and operation for the Internet MCI IP backbone.
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