At the Seventh Annual Black Enterprise/Microsoft® Entrepreneurs Conference in Nashville, Tenn., Microsoft Corp. announced the creation of a strategic office and a commitment to establish an investment pool for minority vendors to help the company achieve its goals of creating best-in-class diversity programs. The company also announced that it will look to G. Winston Smith, formerly the supplier diversity director for AT&T Corp., to lead this new initiative. "Winston is a recognized leader in building vendor diversity programs," said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. "I look forward to working with him to help us greatly increase our support of minority-owned vendors in ways that enable them to grow their businesses."
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