WASHINGTON, June sixteen (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Wednesday named Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella as its new chairman, in location of John Thompson.
Nadella, who took over as CEO in 2014 from Steve Ballmer, has been instrumental in scaling up its enterprise including billion-greenback acquisitions like LinkedIn, Nuance Communications and ZeniMax.
The enterprise stated Thompson, who took over as chairman from the software program large's co-founder Bill Gates in 2014, will serve as lead unbiased director.
The top-stage govt trade comes just over a 12 months after Gates stepped down from the board, saying he might attention on philanthropic works of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the international's largest charities.
The employer had final month stated it performed a probe into Gates' involvement with an employee nearly twenty years in the past after it turned into told in 2019 that he had tried to start a romantic dating with the person.
Microsoft had declined to touch upon whether or not its board had determined Gates have to move.
The agency additionally declared a quarterly dividend of fifty six cents consistent with proportion payable Sept. Nine.
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