HERE are 10 things you didn't know about Satya Nadella, 47, the likely next CEO of Microsoft, where he would be only the third CEO in the company's 39-year history. Bill Gates and current boss, Steve Ballmer, are the other two.
• Owns 113.666 shares of Microsoft stock - worth about $4.2 million. Current CEO Steve Ballmer owns 333,252,990 shares, or 4 per cent of the $300 billion company.
• Earned $7.7M in total compensation in 2013, the 2d highest amount in company.
• Played cricket in high school growing up in Hyderabad, in southern India.
• Advice to younger engineers: "Be passionate and bold."
• Graduate of MIT - but not the one in Massachusetts. Got a 1988 degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, one of the top engineering schools in India.
• First name is actually Satyanarayana. A real engineering geek, he started at Microsoft in 1992. • Worked on Windows, Bing, Servers and now is now Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise at the software giant.
• Helped bring Microsoft's Office 365 to the cloud. The company's cloud business, under Nadella, grew to a $20.3 billion operation last year, up 22 per cent from when he took it over two years earlier.
• Microsoft's commercial cloud service grew 107 per cent last year, under Nadella's leadership.
• Nadella also has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
• Has just 3,549 followers on Twitter - no wonder, his last tweet was three and a half years ago. "HTML 5 - what fun!" he tweeted. but it is better than Ballmer, who has yet to join the Twitter-sphere.
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