{"id":3239,"date":"2026-03-20T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/xbox-corporate-vp-who-led-third-party-relations-departing-soon-insider-gaming\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:27:16","slug":"xbox-corporate-vp-who-led-third-party-relations-departing-soon-insider-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/xbox-corporate-vp-who-led-third-party-relations-departing-soon-insider-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Corporate VP Who Led Third-Party Relations Departing Soon &#8211; Insider Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Wright, the corporate vice president at Microsoft and Xbox, is departing the company. Wright announced her departure in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/activity-7440440236934938625-VW10?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAGBVXOMBvz_qCqVv-uRJAvpCCT5UFNbGSog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn post<\/a> on March 19. No definitive departure date was specified. It was simply noted that you&#8217;d be departing in the &#8220;coming weeks.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I wanted to say a special thanks to the many colleagues, partners, and friends who shaped my journey. I leave with overwhelming gratitude for the adventure of a lifetime. As for what comes next, I&#8217;m hoping for a lot of beautiful sunrises and sunsets, and discovering what lies in the space in between,&#8221; she wrote.<br \/>Lori Wright worked closely with business partners and led third-party relations. Her job description notes that she &#8220;leads global partnerships &amp; business development and marketing for Xbox, including publishing and platform partnerships, content licensing, developer programs, and market expansion.&#8221;<br \/>2026 remains a year of significant restructuring for Xbox. <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/phil-spencer-retires-from-xbox-sarah-bond-resigns\/\" id=\"178338\">Phil Spencer recently retired<\/a>, and coinciding with that, Sarah Bond, the former president of Xbox, announced her resignation. In their place, Asha Sharma moved from Microsoft&#8217;s AI division to become the new head of Xbox. Alongside her, <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/matt-booty-full-memo-following-promotion-to-cco-of-microsoft-gaming\/\" id=\"178377\">Matt Booty was named the new CCO.<\/a><br \/>In the ensuing weeks, Sharma confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/project-helix-is-xboxs-next-console-name\/\" id=\"182857\">Project Helix<\/a> remains the code name for the next-generation Xbox. She&#8217;s also continuously reaffirmed the desire to commit to the core Xbox player. Read her comments on the brand&#8217;s future <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/the-return-of-xbox-starts-with-console-and-hardware-says-new-ceo\/\" id=\"180205\">here<\/a>.<br \/>How do you feel about yet another shake-up at Microsoft? Sound off in our official <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/vwj7zdWxaW\">Discord server.<\/a> Also, don\u2019t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/subscribe\">sign up for our weekly newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep it civil. 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Here are more details. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxNLU1ra1l0VVpzUnZqRk15c1dNTjNqdGR6c0N6THZWcVN5ekFVbERZOG5NQW82TVpSdnM2aXNkSXJiSVBpUHd2b0tIazJsVFVDMzU0bk1SVnVZMENiam1QWWZlVkhHU2ZxQmRBeUMzQUxaUUhWb3J3V2cxYzViVU44X0FsSUlYSkpUZFNEQ1BJR1BIUDRQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Wright, the corporate vice president at Microsoft and Xbox, is departing the company. Wright announced her departure in a LinkedIn post on March 19. No definitive departure date was specified. It was simply noted that you&#8217;d be departing in the &#8220;coming weeks.&#8221;&#8220;I wanted to say a special thanks to the many colleagues, partners, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}