Sarah Bond is an American business executive who served as President of Xbox, the most senior platform role beneath the head of Microsoft Gaming. According to Microsoft, in that position she shaped the company's gaming platform strategy and helped expand Game Pass and cloud gaming while supporting new hardware launches. Within the industry she was widely regarded as the most likely successor to Phil Spencer.
That expectation did not hold. When Microsoft announced its gaming leadership overhaul on February 20, 2026, the chief executive role went instead to Asha Sharma, and Bond chose to leave the company. In her own statement she called it "the right time for me to take my next step, both personally and professionally," and agreed to stay on temporarily as a Special Advisor to Sharma to support the transition. Her exit, after being passed over for a role many assumed would be hers, became one of the most scrutinized parts of the reshuffle.
Microsoft did not publish a detailed account of her earlier career, and contemporaneous reports of her internal title history could not be independently confirmed, so this profile records her established role, President of Xbox, and her February 2026 departure.