Satya Nadella to succeed Ballmer as Microsoft CEO
After
a protracted search, Nadella becomes only the third CEO in Microsoft's nearly
40-year history
Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new
CEO: Satya Nadella, who as executive vice president of the company's Cloud and
Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company's back-end
server software and tools to the cloud.
As he takes the reins from Steve Ballmer, Nadella becomes only the third CEO
in Microsoft's nearly 40-year history. Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates was
the first.
"During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead
Microsoft than Satya Nadella," Gates said in a Microsoft news release issued
Tuesday. "Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills,
business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how
technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what
Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product
innovation and growth."
In Nadella, Microsoft has chosen a long-time, loyal insider who knows the
company well and is reportedly well-liked by his peers and the staff. A
twenty-plus year company veteran, he has risen through the ranks, most recently
leading the group in charge of computing platforms, developer tools and cloud
services.
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