Stephen Elop on Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team for MS Devices Group

In part of Satya’s email today he reiterated some points about the Nokia Deal including what is happening to Elop and the Nokia D&S.

Satya and Stephen have worked previously before Elop became infamous at Nokia. Botht have been working closely again as they’ve worked the initial stages of integrating Nokia D&S to Microsoft. He is noted as a key member of the senior leadership team and welcomes the Nokia D&S employees to Microsoft.

Nokia’s mobile capabilities, hardware design and world-class manufacturing and supply chains is going to help MS drive innovation. Elop will work closely with Xbox’s Phil Spencer and Terry Myerson (Windows/OS lead).

Finally, effective with the close of our deal with Nokia, Stephen Elop will join Microsoft as Executive Vice President, Microsoft Devices Group, reporting to me. We expect to close the acquisition by the end of April 2014. I’ve had a chance to work closely with Stephen, when he was previously a senior leader with Microsoft, as a key partner during his tenure as Nokia CEO, and again in the last several months as we’ve worked through the initial stages of integration planning. I look forward to working with Stephen as a key member of the senior leadership team and welcoming the Nokia Devices and Services employees to the Microsoft family. The mobile capabilities, hardware design expertise, and world-class manufacturing and supply chain operations they bring will help us drive innovations in devices to delight our customers. Stephen will partner closely with Phil and Terry on Xbox and will bring together many of the top leaders from his existing Nokia Devices and Services organization as well as the current leaders of the Devices and Studios team.

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