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‘Satya Nadella’ is an Indian origin is appointed as the CEO of
Microsoft on 4th February 2014. He is from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Earlier, he was the Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise
Group of Microsoft; build the company’s computing platform and running
of developer tools and cloud service.
Satya Nadella was always a proven leader who also has hard core
skills in engineering. He also has the business vision as also the
ability to bring the employees together. He has a vision for the how
technology and this is expected to be used and also expereiced by the
World. This was what the Microsoft was a company would need in this next
chapter of the company’s expanded growth as well as innovation.
He stated in an interview that some of these leadership lessons were
learned when he played in his school cricket team. He also says that, a
lesson about when to intervene and when to build the confidence of the
team was learned then.
After becoming CEO, he said in a conference of computing giants that,
it is just beyond his wild dreams. Admittedly, he said while in his
grown up days in India, he was more interested in cricket than
technology. Today India has advanced a lot with technologies over the
past few years and there are more opportunities for the developers.
Nadella is appointed as the CEO of a 78billion company. The analysts
of industries consider Nadella as the safe pair of hands and a person
who is likely to change the direction of Microsoft too much. Nadella has
shown the right attitude in his career for adapting new environments
from his past, changing roles every year.
“During this time of transformation, there is no better
person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” - Bill Gates, Microsoft’s
Founder and Member of the Board of Directors
Early Days and Education
Nadella’s full name is Satya Nadella Chowdary born in Hyderabad and
belongs to a Brahmin community of Bukkapuram village, Anantapur District
of Andhra Pradesh to a Telugu Family. His father B.N Yugandhar is an
IAS officer and was the member of 2004-2009 Planning Commission under
the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Nadella did his schooling from
Hyderabad Public School Begumpet and Electronic and Communication
Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in the year 1987.
Afterwards he moved to U.S, there from University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and earned MS in Computer Science in 1990 and then
MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Nadella always
wanted to build things and computer science is the right area for him,
he knew that. But computer science course was not offered by Manipal
University that time so he went with electronic engineering and it drive
him to his passion, he said. According to his father’s reaction to his
son becoming a CEO, he said, Nadella was very studious and hardworking
and that has achieved his goals.
Nadella love to read American as well as Indian Poetry and a big fan
of cricket. His passion for cricket has led him to play in the school
cricket team. He said, he has learned leadership and teamwork from his
ideal sport Cricket.
The Spark
Nadella started his career as a technology executive at Sun
Microsystems and later on joined in Microsoft in the year 1992.
Microsoft has recently set its first development center in Hyderabad,
outside it’s headquarter in Redmond Hills, in Satya’s home town. Satya
said the laid-back culture of Hyderabad influenced him a lot of thinking
over the things and to achieve this place in his career.
Nadella, 42 year old man is earning an annual salary of $1.2 million
as the CEO of Microsoft and his overall package including bonus and
stock awards it is $18 million or Rs 112 crore a year besides other
various perks.
His Journey with Microsoft
Microsoft is one of the rare companies that have truly revolutionized
the whole world with technologies and he feels more honored now to be
chosen as the lead of the company, Nadella said. He is having a 22 years
long time relation with this company. “During this transformation time,
no other better person can lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella’, Bill
gates the founder of Microsoft and the member of the Board of Directors
said when Nadella was announced as the new CEO.
Since his joining with Microsoft in 1992, Nadella was moving from
department to department for many years. From 2011-2014 vice president
of Microsoft Business Division, then senior vice president of Research
and development of the division Online Services and president of
Software giant’s serves and tools business of $19 billion.
“Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly
revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn’t be more
honored to have been chosen to lead the company,” Nadella said.
Nadella’s works had led him to the executive vice president of Cloud
and enterprise group. In this position he is credited for shaping the
Microsoft’s Cloud OS strategy, online service backing system. This Cloud
OS helps running Microsoft services like, SkyDrive, Bing, Windows
Server, Xbox Live and Visual Studio.
Satya Nadella believes that the longitivity in business happens only
when one is able to reinvent himself or reinvent the future. In the 39
successful years of Microsoft, it was all about reinvention for the
company. Though there were great success stories, Satya Nadella believed
that the future is not about the successes of the past. It is important
to invent things which really drive success in the future. He also
believes that everything has a rise and fall, be it a company or a
family or even a civilization and there are very few companies which are
100 year old and he does want Microsoft to be a part of a 100 year old
company list.
Family
Satya Nadella married Anupama, the daughter of his father’s friend
who was his IAS batchmate, K.R. Venugopal. The couple has three
children, a son and two daughters. The family presently lives in
Bellevue, Washington.
Satya Nadella is also known to be an avid reader and he loves reading
American and Indian Poetry. He is fond of Cricket which was his passion
in his growing days. He has also played cricket in his school team. He
states that he has learnt leadership as well as teamwork by playing
cricket.
Awards & Accolades |
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Satya Nadella becomes the third leader in the Microsoft's 38-year history, after founder Bill Gates and Ballmer |
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Satya Nadella was referred to as the cloud guru by Microsoft. |
Professional Affiliations |
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RavoSolution US, Inc. |
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The University of Chicago |
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Intelliprep Technologies Inc. |
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Riverbed Technology, Inc. |
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University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
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Mangalore University, India |
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Nirvaha, Inc. |
Quotes |
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Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. |
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Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software. |
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From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed. |
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If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the
old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game |
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The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I
get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish. |
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When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.. |
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You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.. |
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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful
things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially
if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical
that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.. |
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There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late
Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a
bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things
differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to
one's journey through life.. |
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I think the combination of graduate education in a field like
Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment
like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create
can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact... |
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The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must
focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my
job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our
customers more quickly. .. |