1. Bob Muglia was born on 1959 and is an American business executive and research and development specialist.
22 Facts About Bob Muglia
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Bob Muglia was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing, a data warehousing startup.
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Bob Muglia was one of four presidents that reported directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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Bob Muglia held several executive positions at Microsoft before resigning from the company in 2011.
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Bob Muglia worked briefly for Juniper Networks, then accepted his position as CEO of Snowflake Computing in June 2014.
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Bob Muglia started working at his first job when he was 15 years old.
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Bob Muglia moved to Michigan and earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1981.
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Bob Muglia was the first product manager for SQL Server.
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Bob Muglia served as the director of Windows NT Program Management and User Education.
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Bob Muglia was promoted to vice president of the Windows NT division in October 1995.
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Bob Muglia later held the position of vice president of the Server Application group, until he was promoted to senior vice president of the Applications and Tools group in February 1998.
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Bob Muglia was influential in a corporate restructuring at Microsoft in 1999, which assigned business divisions to customer types, rather than technologies.
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Bob Muglia negotiated aggressively with RealNetworks, regarding an antitrust dispute between the two companies.
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Bob Muglia helped develop Microsoft's plan for autonomic computing, which was announced in March 2003.
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In October 2010, developers criticized Bob Muglia for suggesting Microsoft would put less emphasis on Silverlight; a statement he later retracted.
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Bob Muglia announced his resignation from Microsoft in January 2011; he was replaced by Satya Nadella, now Microsoft's CEO.
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Bob Muglia was the fourth executive reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to resign between early 2010 and 2011.
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Bob Muglia reported to then Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson, who is a former Microsoft executive.
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Bob Muglia was hired to consolidate Juniper's software groups under a new division called Software Solutions.
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In December 2013 Bob Muglia quit Juniper, a month after Shaygan Kheradpir was appointed as the company's new CEO.
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Bob Muglia was Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing, a cloud-based data-warehousing startup until April 2019.
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Bob Muglia joined the company in June 2014, a couple years after it was founded in 2012.