Satya Nadella An Inspiration Among South Asians

Satya Nadella born Nadella Satya Narayana is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. He was appointed CEO on February 4, 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. But it also marked the ascension of an Indian-born executive to the top of a global powerhouse—a milestone marked by people of Indian descent worldwide. Fantastic news about Satya Nadella - Microsoft, Pepsi, Citibank all headed by people of Indian origin. Should motivate all South Asians!

Previously, 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 services.

Nadella worked as the senior vice president of 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. Satya Nadella played major role in Microsoft's transition to the cloud.

On February 4, 2014, Nadella was announced as the new CEO of Microsoft. He is the third chief executive in the company's history. Immediately after announcement, Nadella said that his priority would be leading Microsoft in Mobile and Cloud domains.