another microsoft corp executive has been selling stock on the heels of a strong recent run chris capossela the company’s chief marketing officer sold 285 million worth of stock this week through wednesday adding to the 155 million worth of shares that he sold last week capossela sold 5000 shares of microsoft msft at an average price of 308705 tuesday and he sold another 4177 shares at an average price of 312905 wednesday according to a wednesday filing with the securities and exchange commission a prior filing released monday showed that capossela dumped 5000 shares of microsoft at a 31005 average price last friday caposella’s sale of microsoft shares comes as the stock has logged a strong start to the year rising 29 to a recent 310 the stock is up 45 from its 52week closing low of 21425 seen nov 3 2022 don’t miss microsoft employees won’t be getting salary increases this year he sold stock on the open market at two other points in 2023 dumping 1000 shares feb 9 at an average price of 26938 and selling another 1000 on feb 13 at an average price of 27232 capossela has had a long career with microsoft since joining the tech powerhouse in 1991 as the marketing manager for the windows seminar team he still owns about 105200 shares of microsoft directly according to the latest filing from wednesday he joins judson althoff the company’s chief commercial officer in making recent stock sales althoff sold 30000 shares of microsoft at average prices just above 306 on may 1 pocketing 92 million from the move see more microsoft exec makes 92 million stock sale capitalizing on recent rally