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Satya Nadella

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer -
Microsoft

Satya Nadella is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. Before being named CEO in February 2014, Nadella held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company.

Joining Microsoft in 1992, he quickly became known as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and businesses to transform some of Microsoft’s biggest product offerings.

Most recently, Nadella was executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. In this role he led the transformation to the cloud infrastructure and services business, which outperformed the market and took share from competition. Previously, Nadella led R&D for the Online Services Division and was vice president of the Microsoft Business Division. Before joining Microsoft, Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems.

Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington, with his family. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Nadella serves on the board of trustees to his alma mater the University of Chicago.

Sessions Presenting

Microsoft Ignite Keynote

On Demand
Keynote
In Chicago + Online
Tuesday, November 19
2:00 PM - 4:52 PM Greenwich Mean Time
KEY01
Satya Nadella and Microsoft leaders share how Microsoft is creating new opportunity across our platforms in this era of AI.

Driving Growth Together

On Demand
General Session
In Chicago + Online
Tuesday, November 19
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Greenwich Mean Time
GS03
Join Satya Nadella, Judson Althoff, Nick Parker, Nicole Dezen, as they discuss how Microsoft is investing for partner success, new opportunities for partners to accelerate growth and help customers with AI transformation.