Former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer has left the board of directors, said The Wall Street Journal.
In an open letter to the head of the software giant Ballmer announced the resignation from the Board of Directors, the decision takes effect immediately (ie, August 19). Thus, Ballmer has left the board of directors of the corporation six months later, after he left in February with the company as
CEO. According to Ballmer, the new obligations do not leave him time to perform their duties as a member of the Board of Directors; but he fully supports the selected new leadership course Mobile First, Cloud First (ie priority of mobile and cloud computing).
With regard to the above-mentioned obligations, among other things, we can talk about the recent acquisition Ballmer NBA basketball team the Los Angeles Clippers.
Ballmer Microsoft CEO left the post in 2013, but remained on the board of directors of the company. He was appointed CEO in 2000 and finally led Microsoft in 2009. In company he came in June 1980 at the invitation of its founder, Bill Gates, with whom they studied at Harvard University. In the Forbes list of billionaires, he held 51 th place, his personal fortune in 2013 was estimated at $ 15.2 billion.
This decision will be another in a series of rearrangements in the management of Microsoft.Ballmer is completely detached from the controls now, but he remains its largest shareholder, ahead of this year, Bill Gates. The board of directors has become a former head of the company's smaller, but Bill Gates continues to go in it, although chairman of the board he lost some time ago John Thompson. Currently the board remains 10 participants.