Here are 10 things you didn’t know about Satya Nadella, 47, who is only the third CEO of Microsoft in the company’s 39-year history. Bill Gates and current boss, Steve Ballmer, are the other two.
- Owns 113.666 shares of Microsoft stock — worth about $4.2 million. Current CEO Steve Ballmer owns 333,252,990 shares, or 4 percent of the $300 billion company.
- Earned $7.7M in total compensation in 2013, the 2d highest amount in company.
- Played cricket in high school growing up in Hyderabad, in southern India.
- Advice to younger engineers: “Be passionate and bold.”
- Graduate of MIT — but not the one in Massachusetts. Got a 1988 degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, one of the top engineering schools in India.
- First name is actually Satyanarayana. A real engineering geek, he started at Microsoft in 1992. Worked on Windows, Bing, Servers and now is now Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise at the software giant.
- Helped bring Microsoft’s Office 365 to the cloud. The company’s cloud business, under Nadella, grew to a $20.3 billion operation last year, up 22 percent from when he took it over two years earlier.
- Microsoft’s commercial cloud service grew 107 percent last year, under Nadella’s leadership.
- Nadella also has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
- Has just 3,549 followers on Twitter — no wonder, his last tweet was three and a half years ago. “HTML5 – what fun!” he tweeted. but it is better than Ballmer, who has yet to join the Twitter-sphere.