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Mr. Satya Nadella serves as President of Server & Tools at Microsoft Corporation and served as its Executive Vice President of Cloud & Enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms, developer tools and cloud services. Mr. Nadella and his team deliver the “Cloud OS”, Microsoft’s next generation backend platform. Designed for modern application needs, the Cloud OS is a rich, consistent platform that spans public, private and service provider clouds. The Cloud OS platform also not only powers all of Microsoft’s Internet scale cloud services (including O365, Bing, SkyDrive, Xbox Live, Skype and Dynamics) but also fuels global enterprises around the world to meet their most challenging and mission-critical computing needs. Today, businesses everywhere depend on the products that make up the Cloud OS, including Windows Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio and System Center. Previously, Mr. Nadella was President of Microsoft’s $19 billion Server and Tools Business since February 9, 2011 and led the transformation of the business and technology from client-server software to cloud infrastructure and services. Prior roles include Senior Vice President of Research and Development for the Online Services Division and Vice President of the Microsoft Business Division. Mr. Nadella leads Microsoft's engineering efforts in the Online Services Division, which includes the Search (Live Search), Portal (MSN) and Advertising platforms. Mr. Nadella served as the Head of Dynamics business software development of Microsoft Corporation and also served as its Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions and Search & Advertising Platform Group. Mr. Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and has held a variety of marketing, product development and general management roles. Mr. Nadella became part of Business Solutions when the division was formed by combining the bCentral, Great Plains and Navision a/s groups. Before that, he served as General Manager for the Commerce Platforms Group and led the development efforts for Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server. Mr. Nadella was also a key member of several advanced technology incubation efforts inside Microsoft, including interactive television (ITV) and digital rights management (DRM). Mr. Nadella's first assignment at Microsoft was in the Windows Developer Relations group, where he was a Program Manager. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems Inc. He has been a Director of Riverbed Technology, Inc., since March 1, 2013. He serves as a Director of BravoSolution US, Inc. and serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Nirvaha, Inc. He served as a Director of Intelliprep Technologies Inc. Mr. Nadella earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Mangalore University, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
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