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Satya Nadella
Also Known As Satya Narayana Nadella, Satya Narayana, Satya
CEO, Microsoft
Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft (MSFT), succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
Early Life
Nadella was born 19 August 1967 in Hyderabad of present-day Telangana, India into a Telugu-speaking Hindu family. His mother Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer and his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch.
Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka in 1988. Nadella then traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, receiving his degree in 1990. Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997.
Education
- Higher Secondary - Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana
- Bachelor’s - Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India
- M.S. - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- MBA - University of Chicago
Career
- Sun Microsystems - Member, Technology team
- Microsoft - Sr Vice President, R&D, Online Division
- Microsoft - President, Server & Tools Division
- Microsoft - CEO
- Microsoft - Chairman
Other Activites
In 1992, Nadella married Anupama, the daughter of his father's IAS batchmate. She was his junior at Manipal pursuing a B.Arch in the Faculty of Architecture. The couple has three children, a son and two daughters, and live in Clyde Hill and Bellevue, Washington. His son Zain was a legally blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. Zain died in February 2022, at the age of 26.
Nadella is an avid reader of American and Indian poetry. He also nurses a passion for cricket, having played on his school team. Nadella and his wife Anupama are part of the ownership group of Seattle Sounders FC, a Nadella has authored a book titled Hit Refresh that explores his life, his career in Microsoft and how he believes technology will shape the future. He announced that the profits from the book would go to Microsoft Philanthropies and through that to nonprofit organizations.
Boards and committees
Board of Directors, Starbucks
Board of Trustees, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Board of Trustees, University of Chicago
Source: Wikipedia
Recognition
Nadella was born in Hyderabad of present-day Telangana, India into a Telugu-speaking Hindu family. His mother Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer and his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch.
Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka in 1988. Nadella then traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, receiving his degree in 1990. Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997.