Satya Nadella (born 1967) is the executive chairman and the third CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. He is the third CEO in the company's history, following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
In 2022, Nadella was awarded Padma Bhushan.
In his previous roles, Nadella led major projects that included the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.
Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka in 1988. He acquired M.S. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1990 and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997.
Nadella has authored a book titled Hit Refresh that explores his life, his career in Microsoft and how he believes technology will shape the future.