At Microsoft, Charlie Bell's shackles are finally off. Watch out, Amazon.
, who was CEO of the cloud business and now oversees all of Amazon. Bell's strength was his understanding of technology and how to operationalize it, while Jassy was focused on the big-picture business, and Selipsky took on sales and marketing."They had superpowers that were all complimentary," Rashid recalled., Jassy called the shots, but it was Bell who often directed the dialogue and signed off on the technical implications of projects.
Bell was interested in the AWS CEO role, and he didn't want to work under Selipsky, according to a person close to him. Bell wanted to work with someone like Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, a larger-than-life figure willing to take big risks, and"Satya and Microsoft just happened to be the right formula," this person said.
Bell's move started with an introduction to Nadella through Bell's wife, Nadia Shouraboura, a tech entrepreneur, former Amazon executive, and member of Bezos'"S-Team" of top advisors. Bell was initially cautious about Microsoft because it competed so intensely against Amazon in cloud computing. However, in cybersecurity, there was less of a clash.
By September, Nadella announced that Bell would report directly to him and become executive vice president of a new $20 billion, 10,000-person cybersecurity group called Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management. That gave Bell control of teams previously led by Guthrie, the Cloud and AI EVP, and Rajesh Jha, head of Experiences and Devices.
Javier Soltero, a prominent tech-industry executive who spent four years at Microsoft, joined the company through an acquisition. Soltero said he"uncovered all manner of processes not conducive to competition and agile execution" but found success because of buy-in from Nadella. Bell said he's been"impressed by the collaborative nature, open-arms welcome, and cross-team partnership among groups."Bell's biggest change so far was the decision with Nadella to combine the security teams from Microsoft's Office 365 business and the Azure cloud operation. This integration formed the foundation for his new group.
"He got rid of all of that bureaucracy and that project happened 'Amazon fast,'" one person said."That wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Charlie. Many people would tell you, 'No, it can't be done.'" Rob Lefferts, a Microsoft corporate vice president who has worked for the company for decades mostly in cybersecurity, said Bell's changes had helped the organization focus more on metrics, data-driven processes, and customers.
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