Satya Nadella
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 10 interesting facts
1. Satya Nadella was born on August 19, 1967 in Hyderabad. His father BN Yugandhar is a former IAS officer who has held positions such as the Prime Minister’s special secretary and was a member of the planning commission as well.
2. Satya Nadella completed his schooling from Hyderabad Public School and went on to study electronics and communication engineering at Manipal University. After graduating in 1988, he moved to the US to pursue his masters in computer science from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He also holds an MBA from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
3. Nadella joined Microsoft in the year 1992. During his long tenure with the company, he also held a key responsibility at the company's Bing division. And although Bing has never been Microsoft's crown jewel, Nadella helped it grow.
4. He also played a crucial role in bringing some of Microsoft's most popular technologies like database and Windows server and developer tools, to the cloud in the form of Azure.
5. Nadella also helped Microsoft bring out the enterprise focused cloud version of Microsoft Office, namely Office 365. Microsoft says Office 365 is one of its fastest-growing products ever.
Before joining Microsoft, Satya Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle Corporation).
6. Satya Nadella married his schoolmate Anupama in 1992, the same year he joined Microsoft. The two have three children – a son and two daughters – and live in Bellevue, Washington.
7. Like most Indians, Nadella is a big fan of cricket. In fact, he was a part of his school’s cricket team. In an interview with Hyderabad's Deccan Chronicle, he said that playing cricket taught him about team work and leadership. His favourite form of the game is test cricket and he likens it to a Russian novel, because there are so many sub-plots in it.
8. Satya Nadella enjoys poetry. His profile on Microsoft's official website lists reading poetry as one of his hobbies.
9. According to Equilar '200 highest-paid CEO rankings,' Satya Nadella is the highest paid tech CEO in the US. The Microsoft CEO ranks at No. 4 on the overall list with a yearly compensation of $84,308,755. This includes a base salary of $918,917, along with $3,600,000 in cash bonus and $12,729 in perks.
10. After being named CEO, Satya Nadella got Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as his mentor. The other significant announcement that Microsoft made, other than naming Nadella as CEO, was regarding the resignation of Bill Gates as Microsoft's chairman.
