Satya Nadella Height, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Satya Nadella

• Satya Nadella was born in a Telugu Hindu family.

• Satya Nadella’s paternal grandfather had migrated to Bukkapuram from Nadella village in Guntur district (present-day Palnadu district) of Andhra Pradesh.

• He was part of his school’s cricket team in Hyderabad.

• In 1988, Satya moved to the United States to pursue higher education.

• Satya got married to Anupama Priyadarshini in 1992 and Anupama was Satya’s father’s  Indian Administrative Service (IAS) batchmate’s daughter.

• His wife was his junior at Manipal Institute of Technology and she was pursuing a B.Arch in the Faculty of Architecture at that time.

• In 1992, Satya started working as an engineer in the American multinational technology conglomerate named ‘Microsoft.’

• Before joining ‘Microsoft,’ Satya used to work as a member of the technology staff of an American technology company named ‘Sun Microsystems Incorporation.’

• In 2007, Satya started working as the senior vice-president of research and development (R&D) for the Online Services Division and vice-president of the Microsoft Business Division.

• In 2013, Satya Nadella’s base salary was reportedly $669,167. Including his stock bonuses, his total compensation was noted to be around $7.6 million.

• In 2011, he started working as the President of the Server & Tools Division of Microsoft and he took over the Cloud Services department of Microsoft, and after his takeover, the revenue of cloud services grew to $20.3 billion in June 2013 from $16.6 billion.

• In 2014, Satya Nadella started working as the Chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the American multinational  technology conglomerate named ‘Microsoft.’ He manages the Greater Seattle Area.

• He was the third CEO of Microsoft in the company’s history, following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
  

  Satya Nadella with Bill Gates (right)

• Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group and was responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms.

• In 2014, Satya Nadella’s first acquisition with Microsoft was the Swedish game company named ‘Mojang’ which was acquired for $2.5 billion.

• Initially, at Microsoft, he led some of the major projects of the company and one of them was the company’s move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.

• In 2016, Satya Nadella became one of the Board Members of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in America.

• In the same year, Satya Nadella was noted to receive $84.5 million as his pay.

• In 2017, he became the board member of an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves named ‘Starbucks Corporation.’

• In the same year, Satya published his non-fiction book titled ‘Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone’ the profit of which went to Microsoft Philanthropies and through that to nonprofit organizations.

• In 2018, Satya became a Member Board of Trustees of the American Private research university named ‘The University of Chicago.’

• In 2021, Satya Nadella started working as the Chairman of ‘The Business Council’ which is an association of the Chief Executive Officers of the world’s most important business enterprises.

• Satya had a son named Zain who was a legally blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 26.
  

  Satya Nadella and his wife with their deceased son Zain

• Both Satya Nadella and his wife Anupama are part of the ownership group of ‘Seattle Sounders FC’ which is a Major League Soccer club.

• Satya Nadella has been named as one of the main helping hands for Microsoft’s database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud.

• In 2023, he along with other businessmen including Soma Somasegar, Samir Bodas, Ashok Krishnamurthi, Sanjay Parthasarathy, and the GMR Group purchased the Seattle Orcas cricket team which was a part of the 2023 Major League Cricket season.

• In 2024, Satya Nadella’s compensation from Microsoft was totalled at $79.1 million which was at an increase of 63% over his 2023 compensation of $48.5 million.

• At one point in his career, Satya had decided to quit his job at Microsoft and surrendered his US green card and decided to move back to India because his wife Anu was not able to join him in Seattle. He later applied for an H1-B visa and was quoted saying in his book that
  

  Well, the H1-B enables spouses to come to the US while their husbands and wives are working here. Such is the perverse logic of this immigration law. There was nothing I could do about it. Anu was my priority. And that made my decision a simple one.”

• He credits the game of cricket for his quality of leadership in business.