Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella’s 26-year-old son Jain Nadella died on Monday, the company informed its staff in an email.
Zain Nadella, who is a son of Satya and Anu Nadella, was born with cerebral palsy.
The American technology giant has asked its executives to hold the Nadella family in their prayers and thoughts and offer them the space to grieve privately.
Since taking over as CEO of Microsoft in 2014, Satya Nadella has steered the company towards designing products to better serve users having disabilities.
In the year 2021, the Children’s Hospital where Zain received much of his treatment joined the Nadellas to start the Zain Nadella Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosciences as part of Seattle Children’s Center for Integrative Brain Research.