Microsoft Hires Ex-Seattle Police Chief Best for Security Role

Microsoft Corp. has hired former Seattle police chief Carmen Best as director of global security risk operations.

Best will be in charge of the Redmond, Washington-based company’s “global virtual security operations team, intelligence, executive threat intel, special asset security, event security, travel security, security risk operations, security program management office,” she wrote on LinkedIn. She also serves on the artificial intelligence ethics board of policing technology company Axon Enterprise Inc.