In this blog, we will rank the top Indian CEOs globally. A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is an organization’s highest-ranking executive, and many Indians have been or are serving as CEO of many prominent organizations throughout the world, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, and many more. People of Indian Origin (PIO) have gone a long way, to put it mildly. Check out some of the CEOs from India that lead some of the world’s largest IT businesses.
Top 16 CEOs of Indian Origin Who are CEOs of Best Multinational Companies
1. Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google)
2. Neal Mohan (CEO of Youtube)
3. Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe Systems)
4. Satya Nadella (CEO of of Microsoft)
5. Parag Agrawal (CEO of Twitter)
6. leena Nair (CEO of Chanel)
7. Ajay Banga (Executive chairman of Mastercard)
8. Arvind Krishna CEO of IBM
9. Laxman Narasimhan (CEO of Starbuck)
10 Jayshree Ullal (CEO of Arista Networks)
11. Nikesh Arora (CEO of Palo Alto Networks)
12. Indra Nooyi (Indian-American business executive)
13. Sanjay Mehrotra (CEO of Micron Technology)
14. George Kurian (CEO of NetApp)
15. Rajeev Suri (CEO of Inmarsat)
16. Revathi Advaithi (CEO of Flextronics)
1. Suder Pichai (CEO of Google)
Sundar Pichai and Pichai Sundararajan are Indian-origin businessmen and CEOs of Google. He is a native of Tamil Nadu and studied metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Born: 10 June 1972 (age 50 years), Madurai
Education: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2000–2002), MORE
Spouse: Anjali Pichai
Children: Kavya Pichai, Kiran Pichai
Nationality: American
Parents: Regunatha Pichai, Lakshmi Pichai
Nominations: CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Global Indian
2. Neal Mohan (CEO of Youtube)
Neal Mohan is an Indian-American business executive, who is the fourth and current CEO of YouTube. Neal Mohan was born in either 1973 in Lucknow, India in a Hindu family. He grew up in the U.S state of Michigan, as well as in Florida, before briefly spending a few more years in India during high school at St. Francis’ College. At some point between then and the 1990s, Mohan moved back to the United States and by the time he was involved with YouTube, he was an American citizen
Spouse: Hema Sareen Mohan
Education: Stanford Graduate School of Business (2003–2005)
Parents: Aditya Mohan, Deepa Mohan
Siblings: Kapil Mohan, Anuj Mohan
3. Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe Systems)
Shantanu Narayen is an Indian-American business executive. He has been the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Adobe Inc. since December 2007. Before this, he was the company’s president and chief operating officer since 2005.
Born: 27 May 1963 (age 59 years), Hyderabad
Education: Bowling Green State University, MORE
Spouse: Reni Narayen
Nationality: American, Indian
Children: Shravan Narayen, Arjun Narayen
Awards: Padma Shri
4. Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft)
Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.
Born: 19 August 1967 (age 55 years), Hyderabad
Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1990), MORE
Children: Zain Nadella, Divya Nadella, Tara Nadella
Spouse: Anupama Nadella (m. 1992)
Nationality: American
Parents: Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, Prabhavati Yugandhar
Award: Padma Bhushan (2022)
5. Parag Agrawal (CEO of Twitter)
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American software engineer and businessman who was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022 He was fired, along with three other top executives, on October 27, 2022.
Born: 21 May 1984 (age 38 years), Ajmer
Education: Atomic Energy Central School, Stanford University, MORE
Nationality: American, Indian
6. Leena Nair (CEO of Chanel)
Leena Nair is a British-Indian business executive who is the Global CEO of Chanel. Nair previously served as the Chief Human Resource Officer of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive
Born: 11 June 1969 (age 53 years), Kolhapur
Education: XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Walchand College of Engineering
Nationality: Indian
7. Ajaypal Singh Banga (Executive chairman of Mastercard)
Ajaypal Singh Banga is an Indian-American business executive. He is currently Vice Chairman at General Atlantic. He was executive chairman of Mastercard, after having previously served as president and chief executive officer of the company.
8. Arvind Krishna (CEO of IBM)
Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman in January 2021.
9. Laxman Narasimhan (CEO of Starbuck)
Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-American business executive who was chief commercial officer of PepsiCo, and chief executive officer of Reckitt. 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.
Born: 15 May 1967 (age 55 years), Pune
Education: College of Engineering, Pune
10. Jayshree Ullal (CEO of Arista Networks)
Jayshree V. Ullal is an Indian-American billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10-25-40-50-100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.
11. JNikesh Arora (CEO of Palo Alto Networks)
Nikesh Arora is an Indian-American business executive. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google. He served as the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role of CEO and chairman at Palo Alto Networks.
Born: 9 February 1968 (age 55 years), Ghaziabad
Spouse: Ayesha Thapar (m. 2014)
Education: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Northeastern University, Boston College
12. Indra Nooyi (Indian-American business executive)
Indra Nooyi is an Indian-American business executive and former chief executive officer and chairperson of PepsiCo. She has consistently ranked among the world’s 100 most powerful women
13. Sanjay Mehrotra (CEO of Micron Technology)
Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-American business executive and the CEO of Micron Technology. He was a co-founder of SanDisk, where he served as president and CEO until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016.
Born: 27 June 1958 (age 64 years), Kanpur
14. George Kurian (CEO of NetApp)
George Kurian is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer and a member of the board of NetApp. Prior to this, he was the Executive Vice President of Product Operations at NetApp.
Born: Kerala
15. Rajeev Suri (CEO of Inmarsat)
Rajeev Suri is an Indian born Singaporean business executive. He has been the CEO of Inmarsat since February 2021, and was previously the CEO of Nokia until 31 July 2020
16. Revathi Advaithi (CEO of Flextronics)
Revathi Advaithi is an Indian-born American business executive. She is the CEO of Flex and is an advocate for women in STEM and in the workplace. Prior to joining Flex in 2019, Advaithi worked in various leadership positions at Eaton and Honeywell
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