Microsoft has found a replacement for bill gates
The founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world, bill gates will leave a post of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Microsoft. After his departure he will continue to play an active role in the fate of the company.
The Board of Directors of the company Microsoft plans to appoint to the post of heads of the company's Executive Vice President, cloud and corporate services satu Nadella. Main candidates except American of Indian origin were former CEO of Nokia Stephen Elop and head of Ford's Alan Mulally
According to ITAR-TASS, the 47-year-old Nadella working in the company for quite a long time by going to Microsoft from Sun Microsystems in 1992. Also, the top Manager of varied experience in the technical field and trusting relationship with the company's management.
In place of the Chairman of the management Board which now ranks the firm's co-founder bill gates, it is planned to appoint former CEO of the manufacturer of the antivirus Symantec John Thomson, who became an independent member of the Board of Directors of Microsoft in early February 2012, left with all that head start Virtual Instruments. Thompson became the tenth member of the Board of Directors of Microsoft, in which, besides him and gates, is Steve Ballmer, the founder and head of Internet video service Netflix Inc. Reed Hastings, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of BMW AG Helmut Punk and other gates might as before to take an active part in the work of the firm, if it is accepted by the Board of Directors and the new head of Microsoft.
Remember, in August last year, the current CEO Steve Ballmer announced about his decision to resign within a year. His decision, he explained that Microsoft is better to enter into a new era with the new leader that will accelerate change.
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