Satya Nadella — American Businessman born on December 30, 1967,

Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer of Microsoft. He was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Before becoming CEO of Microsoft, he was Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's Computing Platforms, Developer Tools and Cloud Computing Services... (wikipedia)

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.
Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.