Satya Nadella

Satya Narayana Nadella[a] (born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.[b][5][6][7][8] 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.[9] Satya Narayana Nadella was born on 19 August 1967 in a Telugu Hindu family in Hyderabad.[10][11][12][13] His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch.[14][15][12] His mother Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer.[16] Yugandhar hailed from Bukkapuram in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh;[17][18] his own father had migrated to Bukkapuram from Nadella village in Guntur district (present-day Palnadu district) of Andhra Pradesh.[19][20] Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet[21] before receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka in 1988.[22][23] He then traveled to the United States to study for an MS in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,[24] receiving his degree in 1990.[25] He received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997.[26][27] Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff before joining Microsoft in 1992.[28] At Microsoft, Nadella has led major projects that included the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.[29]