Steve Ballmer
Steven A. Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft Corporation, the world's biggest manufacturer of software for personal and business computing.
He joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first first business manager hired by Bill Gates.
Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics.
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