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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO, Microsoft.

EditorialAn editorial profile written by Ceolumen from public sources. Satya Nadella is not a Ceolumen member and has not endorsed Ceolumen. Disclosures

Profile

Satya Nadella is the chairman and chief executive of Microsoft. He succeeded Steve Ballmer as chief executive in 2014 and John W. Thompson as chairman in 2021.

He joined Microsoft in 1992, after working on the technology staff at Sun Microsystems. Over the next two decades he led research and development for the online services division, ran the server and tools business, and was executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, where he is credited with bringing the company’s database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud.

Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India, in 1967. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology, a master’s in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Sources

  1. Satya Nadella Wikipedia
  2. Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft

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Satya Nadella smiling, in glasses and a dark jacket, against a white background. Photograph by Brian Smale and Microsoft, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped from the original by Ceolumen and shared under the same licence.

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