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Padmasree Warrior joining Microsoft

The high profile former Cisco CTO, Padmasree Warrior is joining Microsoft, as per a SEC filing

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Padmasree Warrior, the former high profile CTO of Cisco Systems is joining the Microsoft board.

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As per an SEC filing by Microsoft, Warrior has been asked to take one of the two upcoming vacancies on Microsoft's board.

A report in Business Insider also asserted that shareholders will vote on the new board members during the company's annual shareholder's meeting held in December, though it’s rare for shareholders to not approve the suggested new board members.

Speculation was also rife that Warrior would take up a senior position role at Wipro, or would be the new CEO at Twitter (that is before Jack Dorsey's formal appointment), and that she has been considering CEO offers from various start-ups.

For now, it looks like she's doing the join-a-bunch-of-boards thing. She's already a board member for Box, and for Gap, posts she had before she left Cisco, Business Insider said.

Microsoft pays its board members $250,000 ($100,000 in cash, another $150,000 in stock), it says, plus other stock awards depending on the work and committees that they chair.

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