#TechnologyNews #13 Indian-origin executives that are 'ruling' the tech industry #BB

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India-born Sundar Pichai was named as Google CEO on August 10, 2015. In December 2019, he additionally became the CEO of Alphabet Inc. He is responsible for the launch of the dominant Chrome web browser, and was previously the product head for Android, Chrome, Maps, and other popular Google products. Pichai had also been suggested as a contender for Microsoft CEO in 2014. The 47-year-old head of Google was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and pursued education at IIT Kharagpur (B Tech), Stanford (MS) and Wharton (MBA); at Wharton, he was named a Siebel Scholar and Palmer Scholar.

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Satya Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and became the CEO of the company in 2014 succeeding Steve Ballmer. Born in Hyderabad, the 52-year-old has a BE from Manipal Institute of Technology, MS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Jayshree Ullal is the president and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company. Ullal began her career with engineering and strategy positions at AMD and Fairchild Semiconductor. She was also named by Forbes magazine as „one of the top five most influential people in the networking industry”.

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Rajeev Suri joined Nokia in 1995 and held various positions before being appointed as president and CEO in April 2014. Born in India, Suri also holds a B-Tech from Manipal Institute of Technology, but holds no post graduate degrees. Suri’s ascendancy to Nokia CEO’s position came after Microsoft acquired Nokia’s mobile phone business. Previously, he was the head of the services, Nokia Siemens Networks 2007-2009.

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62-year-old Paliwal is the President and CEO of Harman International. Born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Paliwal holds a BE from IIT Roorkee, and MS and MBA from Miami University. Before joining Harman, he spent 22 years with ABB Group, where he last held the dual role of President of ABB Group with responsibility for the company’s global P&L, and Chairman/CEO – ABB North America.

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Narkhede is the co-founder and CEO of data analytics firm Confluent. She holds a graduate from University of Pune and was also named in 2018 among the 50 most powerful women in technology by Forbes. Narkhede worked with LinkedIn for four years and before that with Oracle for two years.

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An engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Tiwari has been with Twitter since 2011 and is currently their chief technical officer. Prior to this Tiwari has also worked with Microsoft, AT&T and Yahoo’s research teams.

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Anjali Sud was appointed as the CEO of Vimeo a popular open video platform in 2017. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and before joining Vimeo she had worked with Amazon and Time Warner.

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A former Infosys veteran, Vemuri is the CEO of Conduent Inc, the Xerox’s sibling business services unit that spun off into a separate company. Vemuri received a bachelor’s degree in physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and a postgraduate diploma in business management from IIM Ahmedabad. In 2015, he also won the Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award from Enterprise Asia.

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Sanjay Mehrotra — who was also CEO of Sandisk earlier – is the current CEO of Micron Technology. Mehrotra is an engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani and was also a Board member of Western Digital. He was appointed CEO of Micron in 2017.

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In 2015, George Kurian became the CEO and president of NetApp storage and data management company. Before joining NetApp, Kurian was vice president and general manager of the Application Networking and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems. Born in Kottayam district, Kerala, he pursued engineering at IIT-Madras, but left six months later to join Princeton University; he also holds an MBA degree from Stanford.

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