{"id":25346,"date":"2020-03-13T21:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=25346"},"modified":"2020-03-13T21:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:38:21","slug":"bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"<Bill Gates>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u00a0announced that Bill Gates is leaving the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-board-of-directors-301023293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Corporation announced<\/a> that Co-Founder\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Bill Gates<\/span>\u00a0stepped down from the company&#8217;s Board of Directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities. He is also stepping down from his position on the board of\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway.<\/p>\n<p>Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen, who died in 2018. Gates was CEO until 2000 when Steve Ballmer took over the role. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/executive-interviews\/a-clear-leader-in-cloud-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft\u2019s current CEO, Satya Nadella<\/a>, took over in 2014. Despite the announcement, he\u00a0will continue to serve as Technology Advisor to <span class=\"xn-person\">Nadella<\/span>\u00a0and other company leaders.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Verge, this move marks the furthest step away from running Microsoft that Gates has taken yet since he gave up the role of CEO back in 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve \u2013 Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway \u2013 to dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities including global health and development, education, and my increasing engagement in tackling climate change,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/focusing-my-time-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gates wrote on LinkedIn<\/a>. \u201cThe leadership at the Berkshire companies and Microsoft has never been stronger, so the time is right to take this step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a tremendous honor and privilege to have worked with and learned from Bill over the years. Bill founded our company with a belief in the democratizing force of software and a passion to solve society&#8217;s most pressing challenges. And Microsoft and the world are better for it. The board has benefited from Bill&#8217;s leadership and vision. And Microsoft will continue to benefit from Bill&#8217;s ongoing technical passion and advice to drive our products and services forward. I am grateful for Bill&#8217;s friendship and look forward to continuing to work alongside him to realize our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,&#8221; <strong>said Microsoft CEO\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Satya Nadella<\/span>.<\/strong> &#8220;On behalf of our shareholders and the Board, I want to express my deep appreciation to Bill for all his contributions to Microsoft,&#8221;<strong> he concluded.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u00a0announced that Bill Gates is leaving the board of directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[484,99,1385,62,1365],"class_list":["post-25346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bill-gates","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-microsoft","tag-satya-nadella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25350,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions\/25350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}