Satya Nadella is the current Chief Executive Officer 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.

Satya Nadella  was born in Hyderabad in a Telugu family from Anantapur district  in Andhra Pradesh, India. His father was a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service.^[12][13] Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet^[14] before attaining a bachelor of engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Manipal Institute of Technologyin 1987 (then affiliated with Mangalore University), Manipal, Karnataka.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Nadella subsequently traveled to the U.S. to study for an MS degree in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,^[20] receiving his degree in 1990.^[21] Later he received an MBA from the University of ChicagoBooth School of Business.

Nadella said he "always wanted to build things" He knew that computer science was what he wanted to pursue, but that emphasis was not available at Manipal University. "And so it [electronic engineering] was a great way for me to go discover what turned out to become a passion," he says.

Nadella worked with Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff prior to joining Microsoft in 1992.^[

At Microsoft Nadella has led major projects including the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.^[

Nadella worked as the senior vice-president of research and development (R&D) for the Online Services Division and vice-president of the Microsoft Business Division. Later, he was made the president of Microsoft's $19 billion Server and Tools Business and led a transformation of the company's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services. He has been credited for helping bring Microsoft's database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud. The revenue from Cloud Services grew to $20.3 billion in June 2013 from $16.6 billion when he took over in 2011.

Nadella's 2013 base salary was nearly $700,000, for a total compensation, with stock bonuses, of $7.6 million.^[

Previous positions held by Nadella include:

·         President of the Server & Tools Division (9 February 2011 – February 2014..)

·         Senior Vice-President of Research and Development for the Online Services Division (March 2007 – February 2011)

·         Vice-President of the Business Division

·         Corporate Vice-President of Business Solutions and Search & Advertising Platform Group

·         Executive Vice-President of Cloud and Enterprise group

On 4 February 2014, Nadella was announced as the new CEO of Microsoft,^[ the third chief executive in the company's history

In 1992 Nadella married Anupama, daughter of his father's IAS batchmate, K.R. Venugopal. They have three children, a son and two daughters, and live in Bellevue, Washington