John Thompson is the current Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation. He has been with the company since February 2014, and has been instrumental in driving the company's growth and success. Thompson has a long history of success in the technology industry, having previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of
John Wendell Thompson is an American technology executive who was the chairman of Microsoft from 2014 until June 2021, and chairman of Illumina from 2021 until 2023. He is a former chief executive of Virtual Instruments, a vice-president at IBM and the former chief executive of Symantec. Thompson later became an independent director on the board of Microsoft, and in February 2014, was named chairman. He led the search for Microsoft's next CEO; as a result, Satya Nadella was selected.