Ballmer, along with wife Connie Ballmer, will partner with established private equity firms and investment banks to help address the systemic racial inequities that have hindered investment into these businesses in the past, the couple wrote in a blog post Wednesday. Now he’s investing $400 million to support Black-owned businesses. Clippers NBA team and former CEO of Microsoft, has been a major philanthropist for years. People close to him say he is not considering a return to the CEO position.Steve Ballmer, billionaire owner of the L.A.
Talk occasionally surfaces that he could return to Microsoft, but he has never indicated any interest publicly.Īnd finally, Bill Gates:The co-founder of Microsoft is still Chairman, but has focused his day-to-day efforts on philanthropy since 2008 when he vacated his office on campus. Paul Maritz:One of the key powers in the early days of Windows, Maritz left in 2000 and eventually ran virtualisation firm VMware Inc until last year. Reed Hastings:The CEO of Netflix Inc is a rising Silicon Valley star and has intimate knowledge of Microsoft's business after several years on its board, until his departure last year. Vic Gundotra: The high-flying Google Inc engineer, key to that company's mobile phone and social initiatives, is a former Microsoft executive who could be tempted to return. His reputation has taken a hit since then with the dismal sales of the Surface tablet he launched and the lukewarm reception of Windows 8.
Steven Sinofsky:The former head of the Windows unit was widely tipped as a potential Microsoft CEO until his abrupt departure in November. Kevin Turner:As Chief Operating Officer for the last eight years, the former Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) executive leads Microsoft's enormous sales organization, but is generally considered to lack the technology credibility to be CEO. Satya Nadella: Heads Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, which is coming to the fore as the company struggles to catch up in online and mobile computing. Microsoft logo is seen in this file photo.
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