Top 10 Indian origin CEOs heading global companies
The top leading companies in the world are all holding Indian origin people as their CEOs. The Indian brain is ruling the corporate world, making India proud. Here we have compiled a list of top 10 Indian origin CEO’s who are leading global companies and flourishing in every way possible.
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1. Sundar Pichai – Alphabet Inc
Pichai Sundararajan, commonly known as Sundar Pichai, is the first name that comes to mind and is obvious to be at the top of this list. IIT Kharagpur graduate, Pichai was appointed CEO of Google in 2015 and then in 2019 became CEO of Alphabet Inc, Google’s parent company.
2. Satya Nadella – Microsoft
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella graduated as electrical engineer from Mangalore University. He was appointed as CEO of Microsoft in 2014.
3. Parag Agrawal – Twitter
Agrawal became Twitter’s CEO in 2021 replacing Jack Dorsey. The IIT Bombay graduate was earlier serving at the company as chief technology officer.
4, Arvind Krishna – IBM
He became CEO of IBM in 2020 and later became Chairman of the company in 2021.
5. Raj Subramaniam – FedEx
Subramaniam is CEO of FedEx, one of world’s largest transportation companies.
6. Leena Nair – Chanel
She is the youngest and first woman Global CEO of Chanel, replacing Alain Wertheimer in 2021. Nair is an XLRI alumnus and was born in Kolhapur.
7. Shantanu Narayen – Adobe Inc.
After serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of Adobe, Narayen was appointed as Adobe CEO in 2007.
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8. C. S. Venkatakrishnan – Barclays
He became the CEO of British multinational bank, Barclays, after replacing Jes Stanley.
9. Rangarajan Raghuram – VMware
He was appointed as CEO of VMware, a cloud computing company in 2021.
10. Sonia Syngal – Gap
In 2020, Sonia Syngal was appointed as CEO of Gap after having joined the company in 2004.