Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has suddenly vaulted to the top of the list of potential new CEOs for Microsoft—but is there a dark horse in Silicon Valley that no one's thinking about?
One analyst says there is: eBay CEO John Donahoe.
"He would bring potentially a fresh outside perspective which is what they really need right now," Pacific Crest Securities' Brendan Barnicle said Tuesday.
Donahoe is widely credited with a turnaround at eBay that brought the company back to the prominence it enjoyed in the heyday of the dot-com bubble.
