From The Great Aryabhatta to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, India has been home to some of the most Brilliant Minds in World History. And when it comes to Business, Indians seem to be leading in that field too. example Sir Ratan Tata, Dhiru Bhai Ambani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Anand Mahindra, Azim Premji and Many more have made our country a force to reckon with.
1. Sundar Pichai (CEO Google)
Born Pichai Sundararajan in Chennai, he worked with management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. before joining Google as head of product management; he was part of the team that worked on the Google Toolbar. He has also been involved in the development of Google Chrome. He was named CEO in August 2015.
He holds a degree in metallurgy and won a silver medal at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, from where he also won a scholarship to study at Stanford. He graduated with degrees in engineering and materials science. In 2002, he earned his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
2. Shantanu Narayen (President & CEO Adobe)
Shantanu Narayen from Hyderabad, Narayen is chairman, president and CEO of the company. He joined them in 1998, chief operating officer (COO) in 2005 and CEO two years later. Under his leadership, Adobe has successfully worked on moving its popular creative software brands from the desktop to the cloud. Barron’s magazine listed Narayen as one of the world’s best CEOs in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, he was awarded a Padma Shri by then President of India Ram Nath Kovind.
He has an undergraduate degree in electronics engineering and a postgraduate degree in computer science. He has also completed his MBA – from UC Berkeley. In addition to his responsibilities, Narayen is a board member of Pfizer and vice chairman of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum.
3. Satya Nadella (CEO Microsoft)
Born Satya Narayana Nadella in Hyderabad, he now lives in Bellevue, Washington, U.S. Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and held leadership roles in the company’s enterprise and consumer businesses before becoming CEO in February 2014. He is the multinational technology giant’s third CEO, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and under his guidance Microsoft was “the world’s most valuable company” in November 2018.
Nadella completed a degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University. He also has postgraduate degrees in computer science (University of Wisconsin) and business administration (University of Chicago).
4. Ajay Banga (CEO MasterCard)
Born in Khadki, a town near Pune, he has also served as CEO of Citigroup Asia Pacific. His other management positions include roles at Nestlé (India) and PepsiCo. He is also the co-founder of The Cyber Readiness Institute, a founding trustee of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum and served on a cybersecurity commission under former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Banga holds a degree in Economics from the Delhi University and completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He has also served on a committee for cybersecurity under Obama and was a member of the former president’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
5. Rajeev Suri (CEO Nokia)
Born in New Delhi, he became the CEO of the mobile phone manufacturer in May 2014. He has previously served as the CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks US LLC and is also a director at Stryker Corp. a position he has held since May 2018.
Suri holds an engineering degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology. He was awarded the Marco Polo Award in 2015 and declared Finland's Business Leader of the Year in 2016.
6. Dinesh Paliwal (CEO Harman International)
Paliwal was born in Agra. He is also president of Harman International, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Paliwal joined the company in 2007.
He studied at the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee), from where he won a scholarship to study at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, U.S. There he earned degrees in engineering and management.
7. Sanjay Mehrotra (CEO Micron Technology)
Sanjay Mehrotra, who grew up in Delhi, took over as the CEO of Micron last year. A 30-year veteran of the semiconductor memory industry, he has more than 70 patents in the field. In 1988, he co-founded SanDisk, which was acquired by Western Digital for $19 billion three years ago. At the time of the sale, Mehrotra was the President and CEO of SanDisk.
Micron, based in Boise, Idaho, which manufactures semiconductor devices such as RAMs (random access memory) and flash drives, is ranked 150 on Fortune’s list of 500 top US companies.
Mehrotra is an alumnus of University of California, Berkley, having earned both his bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering and computer sciences. At the moment, he is also the chair of the Semiconductor Industry Association, a trade group.
8. Ashok Vemuri (CEO Conduent)
Vemuri is the former president and CEO of iGATE Corporation. He is also the CEO of Conduent, a position he has held since the company was formed in 2017. Prior to this, he worked with Infosys, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America. He was honored with the "Pride of Andhra Pradesh" award in 2017.
His educational qualifications include a degree in physics from St. Stephen's College and another in business management from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.
9. Jayshree Ullal (CEO Arista Networks)
Jayshree Ullal is the president and CEO of Arista Networks.
Arista Networks is a cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.
10. Vivek Sankaran President and CEO, (Albertsons)
Having previously served as the CEO of PepsiCo Foods North America, Sankaran became the president and CEO of Albertsons Companies, the largest food and drug retail chain in the United States earlier this year. Sankaran, who now oversees 2269 stores over 34 states, including over 800 Safeway’s, earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a master’s in industrial engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
11. Arvind Krishna - CEO, IBM Group
After completing his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Krishna's sheer brilliance got him the recognition he thoroughly deserved.
He replaced Virginia Rometty as the next CEO of the IBM Group on Friday, January 31.
An alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Arvind Krishna has been with IBM for over two decades.
12. Francisco D'Souza (Cognizant)
One of the co-founders of Cognizant, D’Souza also serves as the vice chairman of the Board of Directors. Under his guidance, the company’s revenue grew from US$2.1 billion in 2007 (when he took over as CEO) to US$16.1 billion in 2018.
The son of a diplomat, he was born in Kenya and spent his childhood across nine countries. He has a degree in business administration from the University of Macau and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. In 2017, he was named the “Fortune Businessperson of the Year."
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