There are many successful Indians who have achieved big in the US across various fields. Here are some notable examples:
Shantanu Narayen, Adobe Inc
Narayen was born into a Telugu-speaking family in Hyderabad, where his mother taught American literature and his father operated a plastics firm. He, like Nadella, came to the United States to pursue his master’s degree.
After three decades, Adobe’s chair, president, and CEO is still a big fan of the Indian cricket team.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Nadella grew up in Delhi and Hyderabad before pursuing his master’s degree in the United States. He started as a young developer at Microsoft in 1992 and rose through the ranks, driving early versions of Microsoft Office, Xbox Live, the Azure cloud platform, and more. He’s led with empathy since taking over as CEO on February 4, 2014, aiming to purge Microsoft of bureaucracy, and distrust, and accused of short-sightedness. He’s started collaborative hackathons and got rid of an unpopular performance rating system that compelled managers to deliver a certain percentage of negative feedback.
Punit Renjen, Deloitte
Renjen, who took over as CEO of Deloitte on May 31, 2015, was a small-town youngster from Rohtak, Haryana, who moved to the United States after obtaining a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to attend Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management. Since then, he hasn’t looked back.
His octagenarian mother still resides in his boyhood home in Rohtak, making him the first Asian to oversee one of consulting’s Big Four.
George Kurian, NetApp
On June 1, 2015, the Kerala-born executive, who joined the data storage and management firm in 2011, took over as CEO. For more than two years, he was the company’s senior vice president of product operations.
Thomas Kurian, Kurian’s twin, is the CEO of Google Cloud.
Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron
Mehrotra, who was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, attended BITS Pilani before attending the University of California, Berkeley, for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and served as its president and CEO from 2011 until Western Digital purchased the company in 2016. He joined Micron as president and CEO on April 27, 2017.
Revathi Advaithi, Flex
Advaithi was appointed CEO of the company that manufactures everything from hair dryers to Macs on February 11, 2019. The mechanical engineering graduate of India’s Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS) is an outspoken supporter of STEM education for women and workplace diversity.
Niren Chaudhary, Panera Bread
Chaudhary joined Panera on May 23, 2019, after serving as COO and president of doughnut giant Krispy Kreme. He had previously worked for Yum! Brands, the parent firm of KFC and Taco Bell, for 23 years in both India and the United States.
Sundar Pichai, Alphabet
Since being named Google’s CEO in 2015, Pichai has been the company’s public face. On Dec. 3, the 1993 IIT-Kharagpur alumnus took over as CEO of Alphabet, succeeding founder Larry Page.
With the coveted post came a slew of issues: Pichai was suddenly in charge of over 70 separate moonshots scattered across sectors.
Arvind Krishna, IBM
In 1990, the IIT-Kanpur graduate joined IBM. He worked as a director of research and the head of the cloud and cognitive software unit before becoming CEO on January 30, 2020.
Krishna deserves credit for IBM’s historic 2019 transaction with open source technology firm Red Hat, which was the company’s largest purchase in its 109-year history.
Sandeep Mathrani, WeWork
Mathrani, unlike a number of other Indian-origin CEOs, did not grow up with WeWork. On February 18, 2020, he was hired as an outsider for the critical post. The real estate professional was tasked with revitalizing and expanding the business.
After its business model and corporate governance went awry, the firm that inspired Apple TV+ Series WeCrashed is in desperate need of damage control.
Sonia Syngal, Gap
Since 2014, Syngal has been with Gap. Before being named CEO of Gap on March 23, 2020, the India-born, Canada-bred executive headed Gap-owned Old Navy for four years. Her approach to assisting the faltering fashion label has been to limit the number of stores and take more risks.
Shar Dubey, Match
Sharmistha Dubey, also known as “Shar,” was the president of Match before taking over as CEO on March 1, 2020. She was the chief operating officer of Tinder, one of Match’s many dating and matrimonial services, before taking over the $40 billion conglomerate.
The “boss of romance” received praise in 2021 for not only opposing the horrible Texas abortion law, but also for establishing a fund to assist staff affected by the restrictive law.
Rangarajan Raghuram, VMware
On June 1, 2021, Raghuram was promoted to CEO from executive vice president and chief operating officer for products and cloud services at the cloud computing company. He joined the company in 2003 and has since assisted in the growth of the company’s main business while also spearheading its diversification efforts.
CS Venkatakrishnan, Barclays
After Jes Staley suddenly stepped down, Barclays named CS Venkatakrishnan as CEO on November 1, 2021.
MIT-educated Venkatakrishnan spent two decades at JPMorgan Chase in New York before joining Barclays in 2016. Venkatakrishnan, the first person of colour to hold the job, is seen as a fine balance between a seeker of agreement and a risk-taker.
Leena Nair, Chanel
On Dec. 14, 2021, Nair took over at Chanel from Alain Wertheimer, a native of a small hamlet in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. She is the first woman to hold that position at the luxury fashion house in France.
Nair previously led human resources at Unilever London, where he had worked for 30 years after beginning as a trainee in India. She finally became a British citizen after working her way up the corporate ladder.
Raj Subramaniam, FedEx
Thiruvananthapuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, is where the chemical engineering graduate from IIT Bombay hails from. He has worked with FedEx for over 30 years. Before becoming president and CEO of the logistics behemoth on March 29, 2022, Subramaniam performed a variety of strategy and operations roles in several locations.
Sabeer Bhatia, Co-founder Hotmail
Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian entrepreneur who established the Hotmail email service, which Microsoft purchased for $400 million at the time.
Sabeer Bhatia was born and raised in Bangalore, where he received his early education at the Bishop’s School in Pune and afterwards at St Joseph’s Boys High School.
After a foreign transfer from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, he travelled to the United States in 1988 to pursue a bachelor’s degree at the California Institute of Technology. Stanford University awarded him a master’s degree in electrical engineering.
After leaving Microsoft in 1999, Bhatia created Arzoo Inc, an e-commerce company, before launching JaxtrSMS, a free messaging service.
Padmasree Warrior, CISCO
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s chief technology officer, spent 23 years at Motorola. Padmasree Warrior was born in Vijayawada, India, in 1961 and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in 1982 before relocating to the United States and earning a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University.
Ajay Bhatt, USB, AGP, PCI Express, Platform Power Management Architecture & Chipset Improvements
Ajay V. Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who contributed to the definition and development of a number of widely used technologies, including USB (Universal Serial Bus), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power Management Architecture, and various chipset improvements. Ajay Bhatt became a global celebrity as the co-inventor of USB thanks to a TV commercial for Intel in 2009, in which he was played by actor Sunil Narkar.
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