India has been home to many geniuses that have left their mark on the world. Be it academics, business, science, or arts, Indians have aced and pioneered several fields from all around the world. Individual brilliance like Aryabhatta, or a collective effort like the ISRO, Indians know how to learn and master almost any skill. For long, foreign countries have been rushing to get their hands on the best Indian talent, by providing scholarships and incentives to make Indian students and young professionals stay. Recently, many Indian-origin executives have been promoted to the top of their respective corporations. From Satya Nadella to Sundar Pichai, here are 10 Indian-origin CEOs who currently sit on top of the biggest corporations in the world:
1. Nikesh Arora - CEO and Chairman, Palo Alto Networks: Nikesh Arora is the chief executive officer and chairman of Palo Alto Networks. Born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Arora is the alumni of is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, and Boston College, Northeastern University.
2. Satya Nadella – CEO, Microsoft: Satya Nadella is the chief executive officer of the software company Microsoft. Born in Hyderabad, Nadella did an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
3. Sundar Pichai – CEO, Alphabet: Pichai Sundararajan is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Stanford University, California.
4. Arvind Krishna – CEO, IBM: Arvind Krishna is the CEO of the Computer hardware company International Business Machines (IBM). Brought up in Tamil Nadu, Krishna is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been with IBM for over 2 decades.
5. Shantanu Narayen - CEO, Adobe Inc.: Shantanu Narayen is the CEO of the Computer software company Adobe Inc. Brought up in Hyderabad, Narayen is an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley. Narayen was a hardworking fellow and made it big at Apple before joining Adobe.
6. Jayshree Ullal - President and CEO, Arista Networks: Jayshree Ullal is the president and CEO of Arista Networks. She was born in born in London and raised in New Delhi and graduated from San Francisco State University. She was named by Forbes magazine as one of the top five most influential people in the networking industry in 2010.
7. George Curian - CEO, NetApp: George Curian is the CEO of the American cloud data services company NetApp. Born in Kottayam district, Kerala, Curian is an alumnus of IIT Madras and Princeton University, USA. He worked in diverse roles in Akamai Technologies and Oracle.
8. Sanjay Mehrotra - CEO, Micron: Sanjay Mehrotra is the CEO of US-based Micron Technology. Born in Delhi, Mehrotra is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and has a master's degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences. He is the co-founder of SanDisk.
9. Vikram Pandit - Chairman and CEO, The Orogen Group: Vikram Pandit is the Chairman and CEO of the Oregon Group. Born in Nagpur in a Marathi family, he is an alumnus of Columbia Business School with an MBA degree and Ph.D.
10. Ajay Banga – Chairman and CEO, Mastercard: Ajaypal Singh Banga is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mastercard. He was born to a retired Indian Lieutenant; Banga has been the chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Delhi University.
