Satya Nadella: Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

About Satya Nadella: Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

Satya Narayana Nadella (born August 19, 1967, in Hyderabad, India) is an Indian-American business executive, the chairman and CEO of Microsoft. He succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO in 2014 and John W. Thompson as chairman in 2021. Before becoming CEO he was executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms. Nadella was born into a Telugu Hindu family; his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch and his mother, Prabhavati, a Sanskrit lecturer. He attended Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1988. He then moved to the United States for an MS in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, completed in 1990, and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997. He worked at Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft in 1992. There he led major projects including the company's move to cloud computing and the build-out of one of the world's largest cloud infrastructures, serving as senior vice president of R&D for the Online Services Division, vice president of the Microsoft Business Division and president of the $19 billion Server and Tools Business. Sources: English Wikipedia (Satya Nadella, accessed September 2026).

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Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

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