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Microsoft CEO
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Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the worlds
leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer
joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates.
Since then, Ballmer’s leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his
tenure at the company.
During the past 20 years, Ballmer has headed several Microsoft divisions, including
operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In July 1998,
he was promoted to President, a role that gave him day-to-day responsibility
for running Microsoft. He was named CEO in January 2000, assuming full management
responsibility for the company, which includes delivering on the company’s
mission of enabling people and businesses throughout the world to realize their
full potential.
Together with Gates and the company’s other business and technical
leaders, Ballmer is focused on continuing Microsoft’s innovation
and leadership across the company’s seven businesses. Microsoft’s
goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience
across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services.
Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere,
hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own
brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years.
Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his
father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard
University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics.
While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the
Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine,
and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After college,
he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble Co. as an assistant
product manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University
Graduate School of Business.
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