Hit Refresh Intl

Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era and offering his vision and recommendations for the coming wave of intelligent technologies.
Hit Refresh is about the transformation happening inside Microsoft and the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced—including mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
In addition to his thoughts on these stunning scientific leaps, Nadella discusses to lead along the way. He shares his meditations as a CEO and explains how the company has sought to rediscover its soul—transforming everything from its culture to its business partnerships to the fiercely competitive landscape of the industry itself. Hit Refresh concludes by introducing an equation to restore digital trust, ethical design principles, and economic growth for everyone.

Satya Nadella is Chairman and CEO of Microsoft. Before being named CEO in February 2014, Nadella held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company. Joining Microsoft in 1992, he quickly became known as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and businesses to transform some of Microsoft’s biggest product offerings. Most recently, Nadella was executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. In this role he led the transformation to the cloud infrastructure and services business, which outperformed the market and took share from competition. Previously, Nadella led R&D for the Online Services Division and was vice president of the Microsoft Business Division. Before joining Microsoft, Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems. Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington. He 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. Nadella serves on the board of his alma mater the University of Chicago, as well as the Starbucks board of directors. He is married and has three children.