Indian-origin Satya Nadella became the chairman of Microsoft, was the first CEO of the company

Satya Nadella, a US citizen of Indian origin and CEO of Microsoft, is constantly climbing the ladder of new success. Microsoft on Wednesday named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella as the company’s president. Satya Nadella will replace John Thompson. The company gave this information by issuing a statement.

Satya Nadella became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft in the year 2014. After this, Satya Nadella played a key role in the billion-dollar acquisitions of many companies like LinkedIn, Minus Communications and ZeniMax.

Microsoft issued a statement informing about the appointment of Satya Nadella as the company’s chairman. It has said that CEO Satya Nadella will now be the new chairman of Microsoft. Before Nadella, Thompson was the company’s chairman. Thompson will now remain the principal independent director. In 2014, Thompson succeeded Bill Gates as the chairman of Microsoft.

Let us tell you that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is no longer on the company’s board. He is focusing on the philanthropic work of Bill and Melinda Gates. The company recently decided to pay a quarterly dividend of 56 percent share.

Nadella did his schooling from Hyderabad 

Satya Nadella was born in the year 1967 in Hyderabad, India. His father was an administrative officer and mother was a Sanskrit lecturer. He studied electrical engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in the year 1988 after doing his early education from Hyderabad Public School. He then went to America to do his Masters in Computer Science. He did his MBA from the Booth School of Business in Chicago in 1996.