• Satya Nadella was named as the next CEO of Microsoft on February 2014
• Mr. Nedella got role for the new CEO of Microsoft, after founder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
• Net worth of $45 Million

Satya Nadella

• Born in 1969 in Hyderabad, India to an Indian Administrative Service officer, Satya Nadella took his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications degree from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka
• Nadella atteneded  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he earned an MS degree in Computer Science. and also got a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago
• Nadella got job at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff. It was in 1992 that he started his 22-year tenure at Microsoft, where he joined as a Program Manager in the Windows Developer Relations group.
• Nadella went on to serve as the Senior Vice President of Research & Development for the Online Services division, and the Vice President of the Microsoft Business Solutions group (MBS) and later became the President of the $19 billion Microsoft Server and Tools Business. Nadella is the man responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms, developer tools and cloud services
• In 2013, he earned a base salary of $669,000 and also received an additional $7.6 million compensation in the form of stock options and bonuses.
• Satya was born in Bukkapuram, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh to a Telugu family. He married Anupama in 1992 and they live together with their three children in Bellevue, Washington

Salary Background:

• $1.2 million a year as CEO of Microsoft, and will also be eligible for a cash bonus of up to 300 per cent a year. This equates to an extra $3.6 million.
• His base salary is around 70 per cent higher than what the previous CEO, Steve Ballmer, received.
• Ballmer was reportedly paid $700,000 a year during his 14-year rein.