It is official! Finally the rumors he wanted Satya Nadella its new CEO Microsoft, they came true. The Indian Satya Nadella who has been leading the department for the last three years cloud computing, with 22 years of service in the company is the young man CEO of Microsoft.
46 today's Nadella began his career at Sun Microsystems and from 1992 he switched to Microsoft, where he quickly climbed into leading roles in Office and Bing. From 2011 he is the head of the Cloud and Enterprise division.
The CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer unexpectedly announced on 23 August 2013 that he would be resigning from the company within the next twelve months - a movement which ended a 13-year chapter for the biggest software company, but it lost the race in the new mobile device market.
Η search of his successor appears to have ended with Satya Nadella at the helm of the company. For the position, several names of top executives had been proposed, including Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally. Microsoft investors were looking for a radical restructuring of Microsoft. Time will tell if the new CEO is the one the company was looking for.
But the changes do not stop there. By announcement of Satya Nadella like third party CEO of Microsoft, The Bill Gates undertakes a new one roll. Previously, Gates was the Chairman of the Board of Directors, but with today's announcement, will be one more technical adviser. His position, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, takes over John Thompson.