> Satya Narayana Nadella (Telugu: నాదెళ్ల సత్యనారాయణ, ; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of [[Microsoft]], succeeding [[Steve Ballmer]] in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of [[Microsoft]]'s cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms. > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya%20Nadella)