Hyderabad: Satya Nadella, son of IAS officer and secretary to former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao had been tipped to become chief executive officer of Microsoft. Nadella had worked for 22 years for Microsoft who now heads the company’s cloud and enterprise group.
Notify that if the Microsoft board goes through with his appointment, he will be the top-ranked CEO of Indian-origin, comfortably overtaking Indra Nooyi of Pepsico, which is the world’s 44th ranked company in terms of market value. An announcement is expected as early as Friday.
Nadella grew up in Hyderabad. His father, B N Yugandhar, went on to become a Planning Commission member, and friends recollect him as “a jholawala, a man with an NGO mindset.”
He is part of a large contingent of Indians, numbering in the thousands, who joined Microsoft in the 1990s, leading former honcho Bill Gates to look at India as both a research hub and a market after he recognized the country’s potential on both counts. Microsoft’s Hyderabad campus is now the company’s largest non US-base. The company has nearly 5000 employees in India out of its 100,000-strong workforce.
Bureau Report
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