GeekWire has a great post containing interviews with a number of former Microsoft employees who have worked with Satya Nadella: Scott Moore, president of Seattle startup Cheezburger, the former MSN executive producer on Satya Nadella “Satya is thoughtful, articulate and well-spoken but quite low-key,” said Scott Moore whose tenure at Microsoft gave him a window into Nadella’s leadership of Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Online Services group. “He possesses vast technical knowledge and expertise and unlike many senior execs, he understands the products he oversees at a deep level.” Despite his outward demeanor, Nadella is an “aggressive business leader” who is willing to take on difficult challenges, Moore said. John Connors, the former Microsoft CFO who now works as a venture capitalist at Ignition Partners on Satya Nadella “Nadella is not the type of leader who would pound the table with his fist, instead taking a more thoughtful approach to problem solving,” In that regard, he’s more in the mold of Nike CEO Mark Parker, said_John Connors “He’s more cerebral...

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