Frederic Dubut, the PM Lead for the Microsoft Bing Core Ranking team, has announced that after 13 years with Microsoft and over 8 years with the Bing team, he is leaving the company. He said “earlier this month, I closed the chapter on 13+ years at Microsoft.”

He shared his email to his team on LinkedIn, here is a snippet of it:

Here is his words to the SEO community, with a little ranking joke…

I had the honor of interviewing Frederic Dubut on my vlog, it was an excellent conversation:

We also covered when Frederic Dubut got married to his amazing wife, no, I was not invited.

Congrats Frederic – I am sure whatever is next will be an amazing journey!

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: On November 29th, Frederic announced he is joining Twitter: