8 Interesting Facts to know about Satya Nadella - The New MS CEO

1. Sathya is the first Non- American CEO of Microsoft

Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India, and studied engineering at a university in Andhra pradesh of India before moving to the United States. He went on to study computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and earned a Master's degree in business administration at the University of Chicago. That makes him one of just a handful of Indian-born chief executives to run major American companies.

2. Microsoft team likes him a lot:

Though he is not a very well-known person outside the company, multiple reports note that he is well-liked and well-respected within Microsoft and within the industry at large.

3. His vision on the future technology : A better UI

During an interview last year, Nadella offered some thoughts on tech trends he expects to see over the next decade.

"My feeling is if you look at the broad stroke of technology shifts, it seems like at least on the device side or on the client side, it's the changes in UI, or input and output, it's touch or ink or voice or gesture, that's going to be the next big revolution," he said at the time. "Then on the backend, I've always noticed that it's all about the factor of production, an improvement of utilization... What happened with virtualization was that you could get more done with less. What's happening with cloud is you can get more done with less."

4. He has worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years.

If you believe Microsoft needs someone in the CEO role who knows the company inside and out, Nadella is a strong pick. He joined the company in 1992 from Sun Microsystems, and has served in a number of executive roles since, starting out in the Windows developer-relations group and moving on to the online services division. In recent years, he built up Microsoft's cloud computing efforts as the executive VP of its Cloud and Enterprise group.

5. He admits computing is moving beyond the PC

“I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence will become ambient,” Nadella wrote in his first email to Microsoft employees as the CEO of the company. “The coevolution of software and new hardware form factors will intermediate and digitize—many of the things we do and experience in business, life and our world. This will be made possible by an ever-growing network of connected devices, incredible computing capacity from the cloud, insights from big data, and intelligence from machine learning.”,  he says.

6. He has a deep thirst for knowledge

“Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning,” he wrote in his first email. “I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.”

7. Nadella doesn’t have prior CEO experience

Unlike the rest of the candidates that were rumored to be in the running for the CEO role—Stephen Elop, Alan Mullally, Tony Bates, etc. - Satya Nadella has never been in control of an entire company, though the divisions he oversaw at Microsoft generated far more revenue than most companies could ever dream of.

8. He doesn’t use Twitter much

Aside from updating his status to “CEO of Microsoft” this morning, Nadella pretty much ignores Twitter: His small handful of tweets all occurred between February 2009 and July 2010. But, hey, they positively bleed enthusiasm! He has 20K followers in it, even though he’s tweeted 25 times alone. Bing it on indeed, Satya.

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