Satya Nadella
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, was born in Hyderabad.
His mother, Prabhavati, was a Sanskrit lecturer, and his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch. He attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, before earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University (Manipal Institute of Technology) in 1988, an MS in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1990, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1996. "I always knew I wanted to build things," he has said.
Confirmed by a source dated 11 Oct 2026checked
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