Satya Narayana Nadella (Telugu born January 6, 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current Chief Executive Officer 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 in a TeluguBrahmin family in Hyderabad, Telangana State, India. His father, Bukkapura Nadella Yugandher, was a civil servant of the India Administrative Service.

Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before attaining a bachelor of engineering in Electronics & Communications Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1988 (then affiliated with Mangalore University), Manipal, Karnataka.

Nadella subsequently travelled to the U.S. to study for an MS 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 [electronic 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 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.

o 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.

o 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.

o 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.

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 DivisionCorporate Vice-President of Business Solutions

and Search & Advertising Platform GroupExecutive Vice-President of Cloud and

Enterprise group

On October 9, 2014, while speaking at the Grace Hopper Celebration, a women's technical conference, Nadella stated: "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along," Nadella said, according to a recording on the website of the event, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

"Because that's good karma," Nadella continued. "It'll come back because somebody's going to know that's the kind of person that I want to trust."

After the comments produced a strong backlash in the media and in social media, Nadella issued an apology, "Was inarticulate re how women should ask for raise," he tweeted several hours after his remarks. "Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of a bias." [40]

•In 1992 Nadella married Anupama, daughter of his father's Indian Administrative Service (IAS) batch mate, 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, and is fond of cricket, his passion growing up, having played on his school team. He mentioned learning leadership and teamwork from cricket.

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