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John Wendell Thompson (born April 24, 1949) [citation needed] is an American technology executive who was the chair of Microsoft from 2014 until June 2021, and chair of Illumina from 2021 until 2023. He is a former chief executive of Virtual Instruments, a vice-president at IBM and the former chief executive of Symantec .
Until early 2008, Raikes was the president of the Microsoft Business Division and oversaw the Information Worker, Server & Tools Business and Microsoft Business Solutions Groups. [7] He joined Microsoft in 1981 as a product manager. [7] He retired from Microsoft in September 2008, after a transitional period, to join the Gates Foundation. [8]
Craig James Mundie (born July 1, 1949) is an American businessperson. [1] In 1982, he co-founded Alliant Computer Systems, becoming CEO. [2] He was later Senior Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft, [3] after being Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer from 2006 to 2012. [4]
Satya Narayana Nadella (/ n ə ˈ d ɛ l ə /; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-born American business executive who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO [2] [3] and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.
Navigating through a #MeToo reckoning, spinning out a new public company, and stepping in as CEO are once-in-a-lifetime events for most board chairs, but Sarah Nash managed to experience all three ...
The Salesforce CEO slammed Microsoft's AI assistant in an X post, saying, "It just doesn't work." Last month Benioff compared Copilot to Clippy, Microsoft's discontinued animated paperclip assistant.
While at Microsoft, Maritz was credited with originating the term "eating your own dogfood" also known as dogfooding. [9] [10] In July 1999, he announced he would have a reduced role at Microsoft, [11] and resigned in September 2000 around the announcement of Windows ME. [12] According to Steve Ballmer Maritz was "truly a leader among leaders ...
Nike CEO Elliott Hill is among the latest Fortune 500 chief executives to climb his way from an entry-level role to the corner office. Fortune compiled a list of current Fortune 500 executives who ...