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Satya Narayana Nadella (born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft. He was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Before becoming CEO of Microsoft, he was Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's Computing Platforms, Developer Tools and Cloud Computing Services.
Satya Nadella was born into a Telugu speaking family in Hyderabad, India. His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandher, was a civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service. Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before attaining a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1988 (then affiliated with Mangalore University), Manipal, Karnataka.
Nadella subsequently traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. degree 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.
Nadella said he "always wanted to build things". He knew that computer science was what he wanted to pursue, but that emphasis was not available at Manipal University. "And so it [electrical engineering] was a great way for me to go discover what turned out to become a passion," he says.
Sun Microsystems
Nadella worked with Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff prior to joining Microsoft in 1992.
Early years and Microsoft
At Microsoft Nadella has led major projects including the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.
Nadella worked as the senior vice-president of Research and Development (R&D) for the Online Services Division and vice-president of the Microsoft Business Division. Later, he was made the president of Microsoft's $19 billion Server and Tools Business and led a transformation of the company's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services. He has been credited for helping bring Microsoft's database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud. The revenue from Cloud Services grew to $20.3 billion in June 2013 from $16.6 billion when he took over in 2011.
Nadella's 2013 base salary was nearly $700,000, for a total compensation, with stock bonuses, of $7.6 million.
Previous positions held by Nadella include:
Satya Nadella was born into a Telugu speaking family in Hyderabad, India. His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandher, was a civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service. Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before attaining a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1988 (then affiliated with Mangalore University), Manipal, Karnataka.
Nadella subsequently traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. degree 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.
Nadella said he "always wanted to build things". He knew that computer science was what he wanted to pursue, but that emphasis was not available at Manipal University. "And so it [electrical engineering] was a great way for me to go discover what turned out to become a passion," he says.
Sun Microsystems
Nadella worked with Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff prior to joining Microsoft in 1992.
Early years and Microsoft
At Microsoft Nadella has led major projects including the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.
Nadella worked as the senior vice-president of Research and Development (R&D) for the Online Services Division and vice-president of the Microsoft Business Division. Later, he was made the president of Microsoft's $19 billion Server and Tools Business and led a transformation of the company's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services. He has been credited for helping bring Microsoft's database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud. The revenue from Cloud Services grew to $20.3 billion in June 2013 from $16.6 billion when he took over in 2011.
Nadella's 2013 base salary was nearly $700,000, for a total compensation, with stock bonuses, of $7.6 million.
Previous positions held by Nadella include:
- President of the Server & Tools Division (9 February 2011 – February 2014)
- Senior Vice-President of Research and Development for the Online Services Division (March 2007 – February 2011)
- Vice-President of the Business Division
- Corporate Vice-President of Business Solutions and Search & Advertising Platform Group
- Executive Vice-President of Cloud and Enterprise group
In 1992 Nadella married Anupama, daughter of his father's Indian Administrative Service (IAS) batchmate, K.R. Venugopal. They have three children, a son and two daughters, and live in Bellevue, Washington.
Nadella is an avid reader of American and Indian poetry. He is also interested in cricket, his passion growing up, having played on his school team. He mentioned having learned leadership and teamwork from cricket
The new chief executive of Microsoft as of February is bent on bringing relevance back. He'll have help: Bill Gates has promised a part-time return to the $343.8 billion market value tech company he cofounded nearly 40 years ago as "founder and technology advisor." At issue is how to meet the radical shift from PCs and software to mobile and the cloud as well as recovering from this year's massive layoffs of 18,000 employees. The Indian-born Nadella recently stepped into it when he told a women's tech conference that they should have "faith in the system" and trust "karma" to combat pay inequality. He later apologized, saying he "underestimated exclusion and bias -- conscious and unconscious -- that can hold people back."
