41. Satya Nadella
Current CEO of Microsoft is none other than Satya Nadella. He is among the highest paid CEO’s of the world. As of 2017, his pay package was around US$25.8 million. He is an Indian American engineer, with excellent leadership and technical skills. Nadella undertook various projects at Microsoft and completed them successfully. This includes his move towards Cloud Computing which offered the world with the largest cloud infrastructure, named as “Microsoft Azure”. Later, he was given the responsibility for controlling the ‘Research & Development’ department, belonging to the “Online Service Division” and successfully fulfilling his roles and responsibilities. This prompted his promotion as Senior Vice-President of the firm. His shift towards Systems and Tools division contributed US$20 Billion to the company. He initiated and completed various worthy projects including “Microsoft SQL Server” and other tools of eminence, which today serve each one of us in the world of technology.
