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Satya Nadella – New CEO of Microsoft

Putting an end to much hyped speculations, Microsoft declared its new CEO - Satya Nadella. Microsoft has been searching for its new CEO to succeed Steve Ballmer. The committee appointed for short-listing the CEO has worked for nearly 5 months and finalized the name of Satya Nadella.

New York: Though some other rumors spread regarding some other names also being considered for this post, Satya Nadella is new CEO – now it is confirmed

Satya Nadella will be the third CEO for Microsoft after the founder Bill Gates & Steve Baulmer. Satya Nadella originally from Hyderabad, and after completing his schooling at Hyderabad’s famous HyderabadPublic School, he joined ManipalUniversity to complete BE degree in Electronics & Communications. To further his educational capabilities, he completed MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business & MS in computer science from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

On the professional front, he has the experience of working in the capacity of Vice President R&D for online service division in addition to other experiences of working as corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business solutions and Search & Advertising Platform Group, Senior Vice President of R&D for the online Services Division. Before reaching the present position as CEO, he worked as President of the Server & Tools

Microsoft’s operations are multi-faceted and to successfully accomplish the job of CEO of Microsoft, the new CEO Satya Nadella has to really put his 100% capabilities. Immediately his naming as CEO, Satya Nadella wrote a letter to Microsoft family. The letter is very inspiring and is a clear expression of Satya Nadella’s future course of action. The letter contains the highlights about the corporation, about Satya Nadella the new CEO, the SWOT for Microsoft and the new CEO’s plan for maintaining the growth of Microsoft and steps for facing the stiff competition.

As a team leader for gigantic organization like Microsoft, Satya Nadella needs leadership qualities which he claims to have acquired through playing cricket and he mentions that ‘cricket taught me leadership’. The new CEO has a difference from his predecessor as Steve has been a sales person Satya Nadella is a techie – close to Gates. He has a long way to lead Microsoft and his multi-faceted challenges in his new assignment will be to maintain the leadership in its existing fields, overcome competition, maintains good financial position for the acquired & companies (in which Microsoft has reasonable stake).

The market responded to the new CEO appointment in a positive way, and the shares of Microsoft traded on a little higher immediately on his announcement as CEO.