Indians have made their special place with their talent all over the world. Satya Nadella’s name is also at the top of this list of talented Indians. Born in Hyderabad and raised, Satya Nadella has traveled from a Telugu speaking to the global software leader Microsoft in 35 years. Let’s take a look at his journey. Try to understand how an IAS father’s son, whose mother was a brilliant Sanskrit teacher, married her junior and is currently one of the world’s highest salary CEOs.
Studying from Hyderabad Public School
The full name of Satya Nadella is Satya Narayan Nadella, he was born on 19 August 1967 in Hyderabad. His father was Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar IAS. Therefore, there was a lecture of Mata Prabhavati Sanskrit. Nadella, who belongs to the Telugu family, strictly follows Hinduism. He completed his schooling from Hyderabad Public School Begumpet. He then graduated in Electrical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in Bangalore in 1988.
MBA after MS from USA
Satya Nadella moved to America for higher education after graduating from Bangalore -based Manipal Institute of Technology. He obtained an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milvauki in 1990. He then started his career and also did an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business University in 1997.
Married to father’s daughter’s daughter, three children
Satya Nadella got married in 1992 after obtaining a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Visconsin-Milvauki University. He was married to his father’s batchmate and his junior Anupama at Manipal Institute of Technology. They have three children, including two daughters and a son. His son is suffering from cerebral palsy disease. His family lives in Washington’s Clide Hill and Belleview.
Career started with Sun Microsystems
Sathya Nadella started her professional career in the year 1992 with Sun Microsystems. He was associated as a technical staff. However, he soon joined Microsoft as an engineer. Here he initially worked on the development of Windows NT. After this, Satya Nadella was given the responsibility of leading the project related to cloud computing at Microsoft.
In 2001, Satya Nadella was promoted to the post of Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions. He then served as Vice President of Research and Development in Microsoft Business Division from 2007 to 2011. After getting promotion from this division, he was made the chairman of the Microsoft Server Department till 2014. Here he helped the company bring Microsoft’s database, Windows Server and Developer Tools to its Azure Cloud. This increased the company’s revenue.
Third CEO of Microsoft
In February 2014, Satya Nadella was appointed the new CEO of Microsoft. He is the third CEO of the company after Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Steve Balmer. He worked as CEO for 7 years. After this, on 7 June 2021, he was also made the chairman of Microsoft. He is currently the CEO and chairman of Microsoft.
Truth Nadella and Job Cut
On the one hand, Satya Nadella’s career has been excellent, but on the other hand his image has been the CEO who cuts jobs in the company. Microsoft acquired Nokia after Satya Nadella became CEO. After this, 18 thousand employees had to lose their jobs. After this 7800 employees were trimmed. At the same time, 10,000 employees were left out again due to layoffs in the year 2023. In January this year, 2 thousand and then in May 6 thousand employees had to leave the job due to retrenchment.
The world’s highest salary CEO!
In this journey to become CEO and chairman of Microsoft from Hyderabad, Satya Nadella has registered several titles. In 2018, Times included Satya Nadella in the list of 100 most influential people in the world. At the same time, in 2022, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of the country. Satya Nadella is currently one of the world’s highest salary CEOs. According to a report, his base salary in 2013 was $ 669,167. By 2020, the salary has increased to $ 2.5 million. Apart from salary, Satya Nadella also gets bonus from the company. He also received a cash bonus of $ 10.2 million in the last years. Along with this, he has also been given shares of $ 31 million. According to a report, his current assets are $ 44.2 million, or 308 crores.
