YouTube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Former Microsoft board member Maria Klawe told Insider she was asked to resign from the board. She disagreed with Nadella at a 2014 conference when he said women should rely on karma for raises. She resigned quietly at the time but now says she felt "silenced." In October 2014, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at the Grace Hopper Celebration, a prominent conference for women in tech, for an onstage conversation with Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College and a Microsoft board member.