India-born Satya Nadella becomes new Chairman of Microsoft

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | June 17, 2021 IST

Washington, June 16: India-born American business executive Satya Nadella has been named as the Chairman of Microsoft Corp. He replaced John Thompson who served as the Chairman of Microsoft from 2014. The 53-year-old executive was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microsoft before his appointment as the Chairman. Before becoming CEO, Nadella was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms Nadella was born in Hyderabad into a Telugu-speaking Hindu family. His mother Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer and his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch. Nadella traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin receiving his degree in 1990.  Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School Of Business in 1996.

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