Also leaving, the report says, is Joel Bates, the former Skype CEO and head of Microsoft's business development. Reuters attributes this information to the technology news site Re/code. Well why not? A Bloomberg story said Bates was passed over for the CEO's job and a few years ago the magazine, "Red Herring" picture Reller as among a bunch of "Mini-Bills" considered to have the talent to be CEO. Not a lot of CEOs would want to have the rivals stay around, but maybe it's just that with this much money and stock value at stake, Nadella has to show an immediate impact. Bloomberg also reports that Mark Penn, an aide to the Clinton family (yes, those Clintons), is becoming chief strategy officer. We'll probably know soon, I'm guessing
RELLER LEAVING MICROSOFT? Featured
Shortly after Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, my LinkedIn invitation to Tami Reller, Great Plains alum and Microsoft VP of marketing, was accepted. For some reason, I immediately thought "I wonder that means Tami is leaving Microsoft?" I put that in an email to a member of the GP channel. "She and Satya are friends," he replied. "And what has that ever gotten anybody in big business?" I commented. So of course, this weekend Reuters is reporting that Reller is leaving the company.
