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Bob Muglia was an employee for whom from 2011 to 2013?
Bob Muglia Bob Muglia ( born 1959 ) is an American business executive and research and development specialist . He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing , a data warehousing startup . Muglia is known for managing divisions at Microsoft that supported the Microsoft Office Suite , Windows Server and MSN Network product families . He was one of four presidents that reported directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer . Muglia held several executive positions at Microsoft before resigning from the company in 2011 . He worked briefly for Juniper Networks , then accepted his position as CEO of Snowflake Computing in June 2014 . Early life . Bob Muglia was born in 1959 in Connecticut . His father was an automotive parts salesman . Muglia started working at his first job when he was 15 years old . He moved to Michigan and earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1981 . After graduating , he started working for ROLM Corporation . Career . Microsoft . Windows and business software . Bob Muglia started his Microsoft career in 1988 . He was the first product manager for SQL Server . Muglia also served as the director of Windows NT Program Management and User Education . He was promoted to vice president of the Windows NT division in October 1995 . 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 . Bob Muglia was influential in a corporate restructuring at Microsoft in 1999 , which assigned business divisions to customer types , rather than technologies . As part of the re-structuring , Muglia became head of the business-productivity group , which oversaw Microsoft Office , Exchange and other business software . According to Computer Reseller News , Muglia pushed developers to visit customers , created customer advisory boards and led other efforts to incorporate customer input into product development at Microsoft . Muglia testified in the United States v . Microsoft Corp . antitrust lawsuit , and in a case between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems regarding Microsofts use of Java . According to New York Times reporters Steve Lohr and Koel Brinkley , the judge embarrassed Muglia by rebuking him for his persistent characterization of an email from Bill Gates . Muglia also negotiated aggressively with RealNetworks , regarding an antitrust dispute between the two companies . In August 2000 , Muglia was appointed to vice president of a new .NET Services Group . The following year he was reassigned to focus on database technologies as senior vice president of the Enterprise Storage Services Group . He helped develop Microsofts plan for autonomic computing , which was announced in March 2003 . By early 2004 , Muglia held the position of senior vice president of the Windows Server Division . Servers and tools division . Another re-organization at Microsoft in 2005 resulted in Muglia taking the position of Senior Vice President of Servers and Tools before being promoted to president of the division in 2009 . This made Muglia one of four presidents at Microsoft . During his tenure , the business group grew its revenues more than ten percent each year for six years . The division accounted for more than 20 percent of Microsofts revenues by January 2009 . In this position , Muglia led Microsofts ten-year plan for data center and desktop automation products , its Dynamic Systems Initiative and its Dynamic IT strategy . In October 2010 , developers criticized Muglia for suggesting Microsoft would put less emphasis on Silverlight ; a statement he later retracted . Muglia announced his resignation from Microsoft in January 2011 ; he was replaced by Satya Nadella , now Microsofts CEO . He was the fourth executive reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to resign between early 2010 and 2011 . According to Financial Times , Ballmer credited Muglia for growing the servers and tools division , but implied the departure was related to disagreements between the two executives about the companys cloud computing strategy . Juniper . In July 2011 , a few months prior to Muglias last day at Microsoft , Juniper Networks announced it would hire Muglia as the executive vice president of its software division . He reported to then Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson , who ( along with other Juniper staff ) is also a former Microsoft executive . Muglia was hired to consolidate Junipers software groups under a new division called Software Solutions . He also helped develop Junipers software-defined networking ( SDN ) strategy . In December 2013 Muglia quit Juniper , a month after Shaygan Kheradpir was appointed as the companys new CEO . Several other Juniper executives also left around this time . Snowflake computing . Bob Muglia was Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing , a cloud-based data-warehousing startup until April 2019 . He joined the company in June 2014 , a couple years after it was founded in 2012 . Snowflake Computing came out of stealth mode that October . External links . - Official bio