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Over the years, Indians have gradually assumed roles in the corporate world. Many people India or of Indian origin, who became Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the highest position in the world’s most successful company.
Indians have proven themselves to be pioneers in various fields including science, arts, sports and technology. According to 2015 statistics, India accounts for a third of all engineers in Silicon Valley (United States) and 10% of CEOs of high-tech companies worldwide. Meanwhile, up to 30% of companies included in the Fortune 500 have Indian CEOs.
You are probably curious, who are they? So below is a list of 11 CEOs of the world’s largest multinational companies from India.
List of CEOs of world famous Indian companies
Launching the Inventiva page, Tuesday (17/5/2022), here is a list of 11 CEOs of world-renowned Indian companies:
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google. On August 10, 2015, Pichai was named CEO of Google, following the appointment of CEO Larry Page. The man’s full name is Pichai Sundararajan, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, on June 10, 1972.
Satya Nadella
Satya Narayana Nadella is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft. He has been added to the list of powerful Indian CEOs. Following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s first two CEOs, Nadella was named Microsoft’s 3rd CEO on February 4, 2014.
Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal has been CEO of Twitter since November 29, 2021. He replaces Jack Dorsey who resigned. In 2011, Agarwal joined Twitter as a software engineer, then replaced Adam Massinger as chief technology officer (CTO) in October 2017.
Leena Nair
Leena Nair is the CEO of Chanel, one of France’s leading fashion brands. She was elected as the first woman and youngest CEO of Chanel in January 2022. He is known as an Anglo-Indian business executive.
Amrapali Ami Gan
Amrapali Gan is the new CEO of OnlyFans, an internet content subscription service company based in London. He was named CEO of OnlyFans on December 21, 2021, following the resignation of founder Tim Stokely. Before being named CEO of OnlyFans, Ami had worked for 4 years as a consultant at Arcade Agency.
Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is the CEO of Adobe Inc. He was appointed CEO in December 2007. Narayan was born in Hyderabad, India and started his career at Apple. As CEO of Adobe, Narayen was responsible for overseeing the company’s transformation, including moving the company’s digital document and creative software franchise to the cloud, with flagship programs such as Photoshop , Premiere Pro and Acrobat/PDF.
Arvind Krishna
Arvind Krishna is the CEO of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), an American company that produces and sells computer hardware and software. In April 2020, he was named CEO of IBM and in January 2021, he was named president of the company.
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra is the current CEO of Micron Technology. He was named CEO after the retirement of Mark Durcan in February 2017. Previously, he successfully founded SanDisk, until the company was acquired by Western Digital in 2016.
Jayshree Ullal
Jayashree Ullal is President and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company based in Santa Clara, USA. Arista Networks co-founders Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton named Ulal as CEO and president in October 2008.
Nikesh Arora
Nikesh Arora has been CEO and President of Palo Alto Networks since June 2018. In 2004, Arora also worked at Google. However, in July 2014, he resigned as Google’s senior vice president and chief business officer.
George Kurian
George Kurian was named CEO and President of Netapps in June 2015. Netapps is a patented computer storage and data management company based in Sunnyvale, California. He became CEO, after serving as the company’s executive vice president of product operations for two years.
Well that’s the list CEO of a multinational company the world leader coming from India.
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