Steve Ballmer is an American Business men net worth and former Microsoft CEO. He held this position from 2000 to 2014 and was replaced by the current CEO, Satya Nadella. However, he remained on the company board by August 2014 and left to prepare a new class of driving. He also bought the Los Angeles Clippers from the NBA for $2 billion and now owns the team.
He is also a well-known charity who has donated millions of dollars to various communities. In 2014, he and his wife Connie Snyder donated $50 million to the University of Oregon. He is also a member of the World Presidential Commission of the Jewish National Fund and has donated over $1 million. Scroll down to find out more about it.
Steve Ballmer: Biography, Family, Education
Stephen Anthony Ballmer in Detroit, Michigan, USA, March 24, 1956. He is the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederick Henry Ballmer (Fritz Hans Ballmer). His father worked as a manager for the Food Motor Company. He has a younger sister named Shelly Ballmer. He is an American citizen and belongs to the mixed ethnicity of Swiss and Belarusian Jews.
As part of his education, he took engineering and college preparatory courses at the Lawrence Institute of Technology in 1973. He also graduated from Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, Michigan. He scored 800 in the school’s SAT math section and was a National Merit Scholar. He graduated cum laude in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University in 1977. He also lived in Brussels and attended the Brussels International School in 1964-1967.
Steve Ballmer: Career and Life Achievement
He spent two years as the second product manager from Procter & Gamble before beginning his distinguished career at Microsoft. He even wrote a script in Hollywood. However, he joined Microsoft in 1980, becoming Gates’ 30th employee and hiring him as its first manager. He worked in various parts of Microsoft before becoming president of Microsoft from 1998-2001.
He officially became president of Microsoft on January 13, 2000. Since his appointment, he has been responsible for the company’s finances and day-to-day operations. In 2013, the company announced his retirement while losing billions in acquisitions and Surface tablets. After that, he retired from the company in August 2014.
From 2001 to 2006 he was also a director of Accenture Ltd and the managing partner Accenture SCA. After his retirement, he became interested in sports. Initially, he became an investor in other sports teams, but it didn’t work out. But since the Donald Sterling scandal that reached $2 billion in 2014, he paid the Los Angeles Clippers $2 billion at UpCuz.
Steve Ballmer: personal life and wife
He was happily married to his then-girlfriend Connie Snyder. Connie is the first couple to work at Microsoft. After dating for many years, she got married in 1990. There is not much information regarding their past relationships and relationships. He welcomed three children during his marriage to Connie. Peter, Aron and Sam Balmer.
Born September 1, 1962, Connie’s biography reveals that the Bellevue resident majored in journalism at the University of Oregon. He is also the co-founder of the Ballmer Group, an organization that helps poor American families. He also participated in various fundraising NGOs and charities.
