NAME: Mariel M.

Sibulo DATE SUBMITTED: 12\09\2022

COURSE & BLOCK: BSCE 2C SUBJECT: Engineering Management

Satya Nadella
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Microsoft

PERSONAL LIFE:

 Born on August 19, 1967, in Hyderabad.

 He lives in Bellevue, Washington.
 He attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet. Nadella failed in his
attempt to clear the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exam. He did, however, get
into the Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) in Mesra and Manipal Institute of
Technology. He chose Manipal over BITS and received a bachelor's in electrical
engineering in 1988.
 He later studied MS in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–
Milwaukee. Nadella had done a Master’s in Business Administration from the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
 He is married to Anupama, the daughter of Nadella’s father’s Indian Administrative
Service batchmate. They have three children.
 Nadella and his wife are part owners of Seattle Sounders FC, a Major League
Soccer club.
  He is an avid reader of American and Indian poetry and is passionate about
cricket.

Journey at Microsoft:
 

After quitting Sun Microsystems, a company that sold computers,

software, and information technology services, Nadella joined Microsoft
as a young engineer in 1992.

In 2000, he secured his first executive role as vice president of Microsoft

Central.

The following year, he got promoted as the Corporate Vice President of

Microsoft Business Solutions.

By 2007 Nadella was the senior Vice President of Microsoft Online

Services, which not only put him in charge of Bing but the early versions of
Microsoft Office and Xbox Live as well.

In 2011 he was made president of the Server and Tools Division, which oversaw
the Azure cloud platform and products for companies’ data.

Satya Nadella took over the reins of Microsoft on February

4, 2014, as CEO after Steve Ballmer decided to step down.

The decision to appoint Nadella was taken by

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and
Ballmer. Nadella was successful in leading the
firm out of its difficult times. Under Nadella,
Microsoft has held its spot as a major tech
competitor. Back then, the Server and Tools
Division was earning about $16.6 billion in
revenue. But under Nadella's leadership, within two years, the revenue multiplied to $20.3
billion.

Major changes enacted by Satya Nadella as CEO

 Releasing Microsoft Office for Apple’s

iPad
 Releasing iPhone and Android apps like
Microsoft Outlook
 Skipping Windows 9 and releasing
Windows 10
 Using Linux operating system on the
Azure cloud
 Buying Mojang (the company that
created Minecraft)
 Introducing Microsoft Surface Book, the
company's first laptop

Awards and recognitions

In 2019, Nadella was named Financial Times (FT) Person of the Year, "Microsoft was at
risk of technological irrelevance but the chief executive has presided over an era of stunning
wealth creation". Year after year, Nadella finds his name in Barron's World's 30 best CEOs
list.