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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 .
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.
Upon becoming CEO, Ballmer required detailed business justification to approve new products, rather than allowing hundreds of products that sounded potentially interesting or trendy. In 2005, he recruited B. Kevin Turner from Walmart, who was the president and CEO of Sam's Club, to become Microsoft's chief operating officer. [39]
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 ...
Bob Muglia was born in 1959 [2] in Connecticut. His father was an automotive parts salesman. [3] Muglia started working at his first job when he was 15 years old. [3] He moved to Michigan and earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1981.
Microsoft has hired Sam Altman to power up its artificial intelligence research efforts after the co-founder of OpenAI was ousted as CEO in a chaotic boardroom coup on Friday. Meanwhile, the ...
Amy Hood (born August 9, 1971), is an American business executive serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft since 2013. Hood is the first female CFO in Microsoft's history. [1] [2]
(Reuters) -Morgan Stanley said on Thursday CEO Ted Pick would be its next chair succeeding James Gorman, who has been tapped to head the board at Walt Disney after he steps down as executive chair ...