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Ted Stockwell is a Canadian/American business executive and musician known for his work at Microsoft Corporation, The Waterstreet Group and as a founding member of the band White featuring Alan White.
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Early Life and Education
Stockwell was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada to John and Annemarie Stockwell. Both parents were teachers in Ontario. Stockwell attended St. Nicholas and St. Peters grade schools and Denis Morris and The St. Catharines Collegiate High Schools before attending University of Waterloo. There he received his Honors Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering writing his thesis on "Moving Sound Between Time Based Sampling of Audio into Dr. Chowning based FM Synthesis".
Career
Stockwell has worked at Microsoft. In 2010, Stockwell moved to the Online Systems Division (OSD). There he ran Bing Mobile International and co-created a divisional strategy entitled Bing as a Platform (BaaP). Covered by The Verge, and the global press in general, BaaP had Microsoft exec’s quoted as saying this “platform was more revolutionary than Microsoft’s Windows itself”. BaaP was a disruptive strategy designed as a Google compete.
In 2012 Stockwell co-created a divisional strategy entitled Brazil, an Amazon.Com compete. The code name was a play on the geography of The Amazon River, of which the country of Brazil encompasses the majority of The Amazon river.
Microsoft Lawsuit
In February 2015, Eric Engstrom and Ted Stockwell filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court alleging that they were wrongfully discharged for refusing the sign off on expense reports submitted by a subordinate because they believed that money allegedly being billed for dinners included improper payments for hostess bars, and potentially for prostitutes, to benefit potential Microsoft customers in Korea. Management asked Engstrom and Stockwell to drop the complaint, they would not, and they got laid off.
The heart of the case is aimed at protecting employees integrity in work environments and preventing any abuse or corruption in management culture to be perpetrated on Microsoft employees, their community and Washington State businesses in general.
Currently the case sits before the Supreme Court of Washington.
Music
Stockwell started his professional career as a church organist and choir director at St. Patrick’s parish in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He held that position for 11 years until his second year in Waterloo attending University for Electrical Engineering.
Ted Stockwell is a multi instrumentalist, composer and producer. He was the main writer and keyboard player of Treason as well as a founding member of White.
Stockwell released 2 albums with Seattle band Treason, their eponymous release Treason (featuring Brian Michalski on Lead vocals and co-production, Alan White on Drums on the track "Bus Stop Door" and Billy Sherwood Bass on Mantra and Mixing) and Spinning (featuring Jason Ames Saunders on vocals, John Giblin Bass on State of Grace, Visual, John Giblin Bass/Ann Wilson Vocals on Cold Tears). Stockwell produced both albums and played keyboards. Zack Reinig engineered and Ron St. Germain mixed Spinning.
Stockwell co-wrote 8 of the 11 original songs with Kevin Currie for White's planned debut album Loyal, featuring Alan White. Stockwell played guitar, keyboards and percussion with Alan White playing drums, Karl Haug (Treason) adding guitar, Kevin Currie on lead and backing vocals and Steve Boyce providing bass and backup vocals. The original lineup of White recorded Loyal in 2004 at Waterstreet Studios, Stockwell’s recording studio. This album was mixed by longtime associate Zack Reinig and mastered by Joe Gastwirt. After Stockwell left, the band re-recorded 6 of the original 11 songs of Loyal with Geoff Downes on keys for their debut release White, which included 4 songs ("New Day", "Fate", "DreamAway" and "Loyal") from Loyal written by Stockwell and Currie.
Stockwell has produced and played on albums by Ted Hunt, Randy Omel and Julia Francis and has also worked with musicians Sue Ennis and Ben Smith of Heart, Andy Stoller, Lou Molino III, Vinnie Colaiuta, and producers Ron St. Germain and Jack Endino.
In September 2011, Stockwell mixed FOH for Circa featuring Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye at the Baja Prog Festival.
Currently completing Treason’s third release MindShifter, Stockwell is producing, engineering, mixing, mastering and playing all instruments. The album will feature longtime vocalist Jason Ames Saunders, with lead vocal contributions from Ted Hunt and Billy Sherwood. Expected release date is 2016.