About Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO)

Satya Narayana Nadella  :

Satya Narayana Nadella  was born  on August 19, 1967. He is an India born 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.

Nadella was born into a Telugu speaking family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh now Telangana, 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's 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 passion was at precocious stage while studying 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.

On 9 October 2014, while speaking at the Grace Hopper Celebration, a women's technical conference, when asked what his advice would be for women who are uncomfortable asking for a raise in pay, 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.

"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 on 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." Microsoft also issued a memo on its website in which Nadella wrote: "I answered that question completely wrong," said the memo. "I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work. And when it comes to career advice on getting a raise when you think it’s deserved, Maria’s advice was the right advice. If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask."

In 1992, Nadella married Anupama, daughter of his father's Indian Administrative Service  batchmate, K.R. Venugopal. The families had known each other for thirty years and the marriage was arranged in the usual Indian way by their parents. The couple have three children, a son and two daughters, and live in Bellevue, Washington.Nadella is an avid reader of American and Indian poetry. He also has an interest in cricket (his passion growing up), having played in his school team. He has mentioned having learned something about leadership and teamwork from cricket.