Tony Bates

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Bates
Occupation	Businessperson
Date Of Birth	Apr 29, 1967(1967-04-29)
Age	57
Birthplace	London Borough of Hounslow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	London Borough of Hounslow
Horoscope	Taurus

Tony Bates Biography

Tony Bates is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on April 29, 1967 in London Borough of Hounslow, London Borough of Hounslow, United Kingdom. Bates was born in 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.

In 2010, Bates made plans to offer paid premium phone and video services such as group videoconferencing, call waiting and answering services.

In September 2011, Bates announced an initiative called, Skype in the Classroom, with the goal of connecting 1 million teachers. In fall 2012, Skype in the Workspace, an offshoot of Skype’s small business and Skype for business initiative, launched with slightly less fanfare but still reflects Bates’ goals to expand Skype beyond just a consumer product.

As the president of the Skype Division, Bates focussed on extending Skype reach across key Microsoft products like Internet Explorer (August 2011), Bing (Skype Bing Reward and Bing Bar in February 2012), Windows 8 (October 2012), Windows Phone (November 2012), Outlook (January 2013), and most recently upgrading Windows Live Messenger with Skype. Continuing Bates’ mission to blur the lines between consumer and business communication which he branded “B2X” at the Lync 2013 Conference, he announced that Lync, Microsoft’s business communication solution, would be connected to Skype, and announced that Skype/Lync connectivity was expected by the end of June 2013. Microsoft also announced plans for video calling in Outlook.com and announced a preview version in April 2013. Another anticipated Skype/Microsoft collaboration is with Xbox, which Bates called a “gateway into the living room” in an interview with USA Today in 2012. Skype currently reports 300 million connected users.

Bates joined Cisco in 1996. He was employed at Cisco for more than 14 years and rose to senior vice president and general manager, heading up the enterprise, commercial and small business divisions.

Tony Bates Net Worth

Tony Bates is one of the richest Businessperson from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Bates 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Anthony J. Bates (born 29 April 1967) is a British born business leader and on 6 May 2019 he was appointed to CEO of Genesys. Bates is the former CEO of Growth at Social Capital. Previously, he held a number of technology based business roles including the former president of GoPro, and the former executive vice president of Microsoft responsible for business development, strategy and evangelism and former CEO of Skype.

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.

Bates was hired as CEO of Skype in October 2010. When Bates joined Skype, only 6.5 percent of its users paid to make calls from their computers to landline or mobile devices. He was looking for ways to monetize Skype and envisioned extending Skype beyond recreational and video calling. “The world previously looked very much like there was a business world and a consumer world,” Bates said in 2010. “They’re blurring very quickly.”

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On 6 May 2019, Genesys announced the appointment of Tony Bates as CEO. He joins the $1.5Bn corporation during a period of rapid growth in more than 100 countries. Bates, with a proven growth track record, will lead a global team of more than 5,000 employees. He is responsible for corporate direction, strategy and all operations functions.

Facts & Trivia

Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tony Bates celebrates birthday on April 29 of every year.

Bates, a university dropout, began his career in network operations and internet infrastructure. In the past, he has served on the boards of YouTube, TokBox, BubbleMotion, LoveFilm, SiriusXM, GoPro. As of August 2018, he serves on the boards of eBay and VMware. 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. He published a number of IETF RFCs and holds a number of patents. On 6 May 2019 Bates was appointed to CEO of Genesys.