Top 10 Indian Origin CEOs Who Are Ruling The World.

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2023-07-03 11:44

1.Sundar Pichai

Company: Google and Alphabet

Revenue ( Alphabet): $257.5B (2022)

Term of Office: Google (From 2015 - Present); Alphabet (From 2019 - Present)

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Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He earned a degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and is a distinguished alumnus of that institution.

He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he got the name of a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.


2.Satya Nadella

Company: Microsoft

Revenue: $184.9B (2022)

Term of Office:  From 2014 - Present

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Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella has a BE from the Manipal Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

He became the CEO of Microsoft succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. He also succeeded John W. Thompson and was named the Chairman of Microsoft in 2021.



3.Vivek Sankaran

Company: Albertsons Cos Inc

Revenue: $76.768B(2022)

Term of Office:  From April 2019 - Present

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Vivek Sankaran is a well-known business executive in the United States. He is currently the President and CEO of Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the U.S., with more than 2,200 stores across 33 states.

Before joining Albertsons in 2019, Sankaran was the CEO of PepsiCo Foods North America, where he led the company's Frito-Lay and Quaker Foods businesses in the U.S. and Canada. He has also held senior leadership roles at other major companies, including Procter & Gamble and McKinsey & Company.



4.Arvind Krishna

Company: IBM

Revenue: $60.53 billion (2022)

Term of Office: 2020 - Present

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The CEO of IBM, who has been the Chairman on January 1, 2021, Arvind Krishna was born in Dehra Dun, India.

He completed his schooling at St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun, and the Stanes School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. He then received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1985 and eventually got a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering.



5.Punit Renjen

Company Name: Deloitte

Revenue: $59 Billion (2022)

Term of Office: June 2015- Present

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Renjen was born and raised in India, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Bombay. He later moved to the United States to pursue an MBA from Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management in Oregon.

After completing his MBA, Renjen joined Deloitte's U.S. consulting practice in 1989. He quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a partner in the firm's consulting practice in 1999.In 2015, Renjen was appointed as the Global CEO of Deloitte, becoming the first person of Indian origin to lead one of the "Big Four" accounting firms.


6.Vasant Narasimhan

Company Name: Novartis

Revenue: $50.5 billion (2022)

Term of Office: Feb 2018- Present

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Narasimhan was born in the United States in 1976, but spent much of his childhood in India. He attended the Syosset High School in New York before earning a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from the University of Chicago.

He went on to complete his MD from Harvard Medical School, as well as a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

After completing his education, Narasimhan worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company before joining Novartis in 2005. In 2014, he was appointed as the Global Head of Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer for Novartis.

In 2018, Narasimhan was named CEO of Novartis, succeeding Joseph Jimenez.



7.Sanjay Mehrotra

Company: Micron

Revenue: $27.156 Billion(2022)

Term of Office: 2017 - Present

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Kanpur-born Sanjay Mehrotra started his college at BITS Pilani and then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley from where he obtained a Bachelor's and a Master's in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Science.

He is the current CEO of Micron Technology, who assumed office when Mark Durcan retired in February 2017.


Previously, he co-founded SanDisk, where he served as the president and CEO until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016.



8.Laxman Narasimhan

Company: Starbucks

Revenue: $30.4B (2022)

Term of Office: 2022 - Present

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Laxman holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, University of Pune, an MA degree in German and International Studies from The Lauder Institute and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.


He joined Starbucks under the title "interim CEO" in October 2022, and following the transition will succeed interim CEO Howard Schultz on April 1, 2023.



9.Revathi Advaithi

Company: Flex (formerly Flextronics)

Revenue: $29.720B (2022)

Term of Office: 2019 - Present

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The CEO of Flex and an advocate of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Revathi Advaithi is an Indian-American business executive, who was born in India.

Advaithi started her career as a shop floor supervisor in Eaton, joined Honeywell, and returned to Eaton again, where she worked for 10 long years after becoming the COO. She eventually left Eaton and joined Flex as the company's CEO in 2019. Revathi is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BS) and Thunderbird School of Global Management (MBA).



10.Neal Mohan

Company Name: Youtube

Revenue: $29.2 billion (2022)

Term of Office: Feb 2023 - Present

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Neal Mohan is an accomplished Indian-American executive who holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He began his career at Accenture, where he worked for approximately 1.5 years, before moving on to Microsoft as a manager in the company's corporate strategy department.

In 2008, Mohan joined Google after the tech giant's acquisition of DoubleClick. Over the years, he rose through the ranks and became YouTube's chief product officer in 2015, responsible for overseeing the platform's product and user experience.

Mohan's impressive educational background and extensive experience in the tech industry have played a significant role in his success.

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