ServiceNow Appoints Bill McDermott CEO, Succeeding John Donahoe
- McDermott ran SAP for a decade until stepping away this month
- Donahoe joins Nike as CEO after leading ServiceNow since 2017
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ServiceNow Inc., a cloud-based corporate software provider, appointed former SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott as its new CEO, succeeding John Donahoe, who is departing to run Nike Inc.
McDermott, 58, surprised the software industry earlier this month when he stepped down from Walldorf, Germany-based SAP. He joined Europe’s largest software maker in 2002 and was the first American to hold the CEO position at the company. As CEO for a decade, McDermott embraced cloud computing, changing the way SAP sold software so customers could use it over the internet.