As Satya Nadella becomes the third CEO of Microsoft, he brings a relentless drive for innovation and a spirit of collaboration to his new role. He joined Microsoft 22 years ago.
Satya Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India, in a Telugu-speaking family from Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh. His father was a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service, Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet before attaining a bachelor of engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1987 (then affiliated to Mangalore University), Manipal, Karnataka.
Nadella subsequently traveled to the US on a student visa to study for an MS degree in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,receiving his degree in 1990.Later he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Nadella said he "always wanted to build things."He knew that computer science was what he wanted to pursue.But that emphasis was not available at Manipal University. "And so it [electronic engineering] was a great way for me to go discover what turned out to become a passion," he says.
