New Face of Microsoft – Satya Nadella As 3rd CEO!
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| New face of Microsoft! |
Indians
are always proved to be great leaders and this is the challenging time for
Satya Nadella to prove it again. 4th February 2014 was the day of
pride for India when Satya Nadella was appointed as 3rd CEO of
world’s 4th largest company – Microsoft. Basically Indian and born
in Hyderabad, Satya Nadella is now procuring the post of CEO in the same
company where he has been steadfast and diligent employee for past 22yrs, one
of the top MNC - Microsoft. The time when Microsoft is seeing the worst phase
of its lifespan, it’s a challenging time for Satya Nadella to bring-up the
standard of Microsoft back to what it was holding before Apple, Google and
Windows came in market. From the very beginning, new CEO Satya Nadella is showing that he will manoeuvre
differently from former CEO‘s Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.
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| Satya Nadella, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer |
Born
in 1969 in a telgu family, the hyderabadi boy of 42 years believes that his
passion toward cricket in his childhood days taught him the lessons of teamwork
and leadership. Nadella,
an Electrical Engineer with bachelor’s degrees from Manipal Institute of
Technology (1988) and master in Computer Science discipline from University of
Wisconsin, earned his MBA degree by taking weekend classes at University of
Chicago Booth School Business after he had joined at Microsoft. Nadella started his
professional career at Sun
Microsystems, before joining Microsoft in 1992, where he functioned as a
Program Manager in the Windows Developer Relations group. Nadella swiftly rose
up the ranks, from Senior Vice President of Research & Development for the
Online Services division, to the Vice President of the Microsoft Business
Solutions group (MBS), and outstandingly now the President of a company assets of
$19 billion – Microsoft. Presently, Nadella is Executive Vice President of
Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group which is responsible for building and
running the company's computing platforms, developer tools and cloud services,
according to Microsoft’s team. This newly appointed CEO played a major role in
Microsoft’s transition to cloud computing called Azure. Apart from this, he had
worked on wide range of jobs at Microsoft which includes Bing, Office 365,
Skype and MSN.
Talking about his personal life then
Nadella is the son of an IAS officer, who was secretary to former PM P.V.Narasimha
Rao and also member of Planning Commission under PM Manmohan Singh during the
period of 2004-2009. In 1992, the time when he joined Microsoft, Nadella was
married to Anupama, Daughter of his father’s IAS colleague and his high school
sweetheart and is now father of 1 son and 2 daughters.
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| Satya Nadella with his family |
“I
always wanted to build things” says Satya Nadella “and that is the reason I
wanted to join computer engineering, unfortunately this field wasn’t available
at Manipal University and so I planned to switch to Electrical engineering so
as a great way for me to discover the way towards my passion”
“Our
industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation” he says. Nadella's annual salary has
been raised to $1.2million which is 70% greater compare to the annual base
salary paid to Steve Ballmer. Also Microsoft says that the new CEO may receive a cash award of 300% of
his salary earned as CEO during the remainder of fiscal year 2014 and all of
fiscal year 2015 and is also eligible for a stock award of $13.2 million for
the company's 2015 fiscal year. The Microsoft board will take a final call on
the bonus and it also depends on Nadella's and the company's performance. In past three years Nadella helped in growing Microsoft $20 billion as
annual revenue — about a quarter of Microsoft's total revenue in the most
recent fiscal year.
Satya sounds to be very promising for the growth of
its company and to get back the consumer’s mindshare that it has lost due to
Apple and Google. Let’s hope he goes as he is saying and proves to be best in
fixing the problems that Microsoft is facing and may Microsoft attain the
heights of success that it has never imagined!
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