Who are the top Indian CEOs (MDs, Chairman) in the world list
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We have been always hearing about the big entrepreneurs like Sundar Pichai (Google), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), etc. who are originally from India, but settled abroad.
But today, let us know a list of great Indians minds and creative genius of India who have changed this world and also who have become CEO, MD, Chairman etc. of many companies across the globe.
We Indians must be highly proud that the top companies across the world is been changed by Indians, be it work culture or in entrepreneurship.
Now, let us know the list of more people who have changed the way the world does the business across world.
List of the top Indian CEOs (MDs, Chairman) in the world list are as given below:
Jay Vijayan, founder of Tekion Corp., former CIO of Tesla :
He is an Indian-American business executive.
Jay Vijayan from 2012 to 2016, worked at Tesla Motors as Chief Information Officer. In 2016, he founded Tekion Corp, an American company selling software to the automotive retail industry.
Jay was born in a Tamil family in Chennai, India to K. Vijayan and V. Umadevi.
His father is a local politician and leader of the Indian National Congress party in Tamil Nadu.
He later earned his Bachelor of Science and Master in Science in Geology subject from the University of Madras in Chennai, India.
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He was an executive chairman of Mastercard, having previously served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from July 2010 until December 31, 2020.
Ajit Gupta, founder and CEO of Speedera Networks, Aryaka Networks :
He holds 21 technology patents for Internet content delivery and global traffic management.
Ajit Gupta graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Electrical Engineering Batch of 1984.
Dinesh C. Paliwal was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Harman International, a provider of audio and infotainment systems for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets, from 2007 to 2020.
Paliwal currently serves on Harman's board of directors. Paliwal was born on December 17, 1957 in Agra, India as one of seven children in a family of modest means.
Paliwal married Ila Sharma after attending University of Roorkee.
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An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years.
He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.
Amar Gopal Bose was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Bengali Hindu father, Noni Gopal Bose and an American mother, Charlotte Mechlin (1895-1973).
Abbas Sadriwala, chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group :
Abbas Sadriwalla (born 1948 in Bombay, now Mumbai, India).
He is chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group of seven companies, which offer Wi-Fi technologies.
Sadriwalla is himself of Mewari origin. His father comes from the village of Bari Sadri in the Mewar region of Rajasthan (hence the name Sadriwalla).
Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra, director of Edison International, Southern California Edison :
Jagjeet (Also called as Jeet) Bindra is a director of Edison International and one of the United States’ largest electric utilities, Southern California Edison.
Jeet is also a member of the board of directors of LyondellBasell and WorleyParsons.
Jeet currently chairs the University of Washington College of Engineering Visiting Committee.
In the past Jeet was a member of the board of directors of Transocean, Larsen & Toubro.
Reliance Petroleum, GS Caltex and Caltex Australia (as CEO and managing director).
Jeet's career has included several senior executive roles in refinery operations, refinery and upstream engineering, strategic planning, capital projects and engineering technology.
Nikesh Arora, CEO, Palo Alto Networks, former Google executive and COO, Softbank :
Nikesh Arora (born February 9, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive.
He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of Palo Alto Networks.
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 to an Indian Air Force officer, Arora completed his schooling from The Air Force School (Subroto Park), and went on to graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in Varanasi, India, with a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering in 1989.
He holds a degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University. He has held the CFA designation since 1999.
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Anil Kumar, former senior partner and chairman, Asia Center of McKinsey & Company :
Anil Kumar (born 1958) is an Indian-American former senior partner and director at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
He co-founded McKinsey's offices in Silicon Valley and India and created its Internet practice (representing a quarter of McKinsey's business at the time) among others.
Anil Kumar is additionally the co-founder of the Indian School of Business with Rajat Gupta and the creator of two different kinds of outsourcing.
He graduated from IIT Bombay in India, Imperial College in the UK, and The Wharton School in the US.
Anjli Jain, founder and Managing Partner of EVC Ventures :
On January 10, 2004, Anjli Jain became the Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium.
Anjli Jain was born in New Delhi, India and grew up in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Anjli Jain graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in 2003.
Bharat Desai, co-founder and chairman of Syntel :
Bharat Desai (born November 1952) is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and chairman of Syntel.
Bharat Desai was born in November 1952, in Kenya. He is of Gujarati Indian origin. In his childhood, he lived in Mombasa and Ahmedabad.
Bharat Desai received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an MBA in finance from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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Anu Aiyengar graduated from Smith College of liberal arts in Massachusetts with an undergraduate degree in Economics and Computer Science, and currently serves as Co-Chair of Smith's Business Advisory Board.
Anu Aiyengar received her MBA from Vanderbilt University. She finds relaxation through Indian classical dance.
Arun Sarin, former president of Vodafone :
Sarin was the former CEO of the telecom giant Vodafone, serving from 2003 until 2008. He drove the integration of Vodafone, Airtouch and Mannesman.
He was also the driving force behind the Vodafone's strategic move into emerging markets, especially Asia and Africa, through the purchases of Turkish operator Telsim and a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar in India.
Sarin was born in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1954. He pursued his secondary education at the Bangalore Military School.
Later, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and graduated with a B.Tech. degree in metallurgical engineering in 1975.
In 1978, he gained a MS in engineering and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ajit Jain, president of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group :
Ajit Jain (born 1951) is an Indian American executive who was the Vice Chairman of Insurance Operations for Berkshire Hathaway.
He was raised in India's coastal state of Odisha. Ajit Jain is an older cousin of Anshu Jain, who was the former Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank.
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM :
Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM.
Arvind Krishna has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman in January 2021.
Arvind Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions.
He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the company’s history.
Krishna was born into a Telugu-speaking family in West Godavari District in the Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, India.
His father, Major General Vinod Krishna, was an army officer who worked for the Indian Army and his mother, Aarathi Krishna, worked for the welfare of Army widows.
Ashutosh Saxena, Founder & CEO of Caspar.AI, prolific
author in the area of AI, and former Professor of Computer Science at Cornell
University.
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Abhi Talwalkar, president and CEO of LSI Corporation :
Abhi Talwalkar was president and CEO of LSI Corporation, a company that designed chips and software for datacenters and other applications.
Talwalkar was born in Pune, India in 1964. Talwalkar received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1985.
Siddharth N. Bobby Mehta is the former CEO and vice chairman of HSBC North America.
Siddharth N. Bobby Mehta served as an Advisor of TransUnion since December 31, 2012. Mehta serves as consultant of TransUnion.
He served the chief executive officer and president of TransUnion from August 2007 to December 2012, and Transunion Financing Corp.
Until December 31, 2012. From May 2007 to July 2007, he served as a consultant to the board of directors at TransUnion.
From 1998 to 2007, he held a variety of positions with HSBC Finance Corporation and HSBC North America Holdings, Inc.
Mehta served as chief executive officer of HSBC North America until February 2007.
Siddharth N. Bobby Mehta served as consultant of TransUnion since May 2007 until July 2007.
Siddharth N. Bobby Mehta served as group managing director of HSBC Holdings PLC of HSBC Finance Corp. since April 30, 2005, and its unit chief executive officer since March 2005.
Deven Sharma, former president of Standard & Poor's :
This is a division of S&P Global (formerlyThe McGraw-Hill Companies), providing independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, and investment research.
Deven Sharma joined Standard & Poor's in 2006 as executive vice president, Investment Service and Global Sales. On August 23, 2011 he resigned.
Deven Sharma was born in the mining town of Dhanbad in Bihar (now a part of Jharkhand), India.
His father R. N. Sharma was chairman of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd., Dhanbad.
Deven Sharma did his schooling from De Nobili School, FRI, Digwadih, Dhanbad.
Deven Sharma received his Bachelor's Degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, a Master's Degree from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a Doctoral degree in Business Management from Ohio State University.
Anshu Jain, President of Cantor Fitzgerald and former co-CEO of Deutsche Bank :
Anshuman Jain (born 7 January 1963) is a British Indian business executive.
Since 2017, he has been the president of the American financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
Jain was born in Jaipur, India, and his father was a civil servant. He was raised in the Jain religion.
Anshuman Jain is a cousin of Ajit Jain, who since 2018 has been vice chairman of insurance operations for Berkshire Hathaway.
When he was six Jain moved with his father to New Delhi, and attended Delhi Public School, Mathura Road.
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Francis deSouza, CEO of Illumina :
Francis Aurelio deSouza (born December 2, 1970) is an American entrepreneur and business executive.
He is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Illumina and a member of the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company.
He was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Elpinki, an Ethiopian/Greek mother, and Domingos, an Indian father. He was the second of five children.
His mother was a homemaker and his father was a commercial representative for Japanese trading company Itochu.
Before he was 5, his family moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Gururaj Deshpande, founder of Sycamore Networks :
He is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT and the Deshpande Foundation.
Deshpande is the Chairman of A123Systems, Sycamore Networks, Tejas Networks, HiveFire, Sandstone Capital, Sparta Group, and sits on the Board of Airvana.
Gururaj Deshpande was born in Hubli, Karnataka in India. His father was a labor commissioner with the Indian government.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
He completed his PhD in Data Communications from Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Indra Nooyi, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo :
She is an Indian-American business executive and former chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo. In 2017, her final year at PepsiCo, her pay was $31 million.
She serves on the boards of Amazon and the International Cricket Council. Philips has proposed that Nooyi join their board in May 2021.
Nooyi was born in Madras (now known as Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. Nooyi did her schooling in Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in T. Nagar.
Nooyi received bachelor's degrees in physics, chemistry and mathematics from Madras Christian College of the University of Madras in 1974.
She also did a Post Graduate Programme Diploma from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
In 1978, Nooyi was admitted to Yale School of Management and moved to United States of America (USA) where she earned a Master's degree in Public and Private Management in 1980.
John Kapoor, founder and executive chairman of Insys Therapeutics :
Also he is the majority shareholder in the generic drug manufacturing company Akorn.
John Nath Kapoor was born in Amritsar, India, into a family of modest means.
He later moved to Mumbai, where he graduated from the Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly UDCT) with a degree in pharmacy.
After moving to the United States, he attended the University at Buffalo on a scholarship and obtained a doctorate in medicinal chemistry in 1972.
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K. R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy :
KR Sridhar (born in 1960) is an Indian American engineer, professor, and entrepreneur.
KR Sridhar is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Bloom Energy.
He was a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona.
KR Sridhar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Sridhar was awarded a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India in 1982.
He moved to the United States and gained a M.S. in nuclear engineering and a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
Sridhar was the director of the Space Technologies Laboratory at the University of Arizona where he was also professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.
Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO of Workday, Inc.; partner at Greylock Partners; member of the board of directors of Intel :
Aneel Bhusri (born February 14, 1966) is an Indian-American business executive.
He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Workday. He is also a partner at Greylock Partners and was a member of Intel's board of directors between 2014 and 2019.
Kanwal Rekhi, former EVP and CTO of Novell :
He is credited as the first Indian-American Founder and CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ.
Lakshmi Narayanan, vice chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Corporation :
Lakshmi Narayanan (born 1953) is the ex-vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant and Chairman of ICT Academy.
He was the CEO and president of Cognizant until 2006. He also served as Chairman on NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies) in 2007 - 2008.
Narayanan was awarded the Dataquest IT Person of the Year 2008 by the CyberMedia group's IT publication, Dataquest.
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Manoj Bhargava, founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC; the company is known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink :
Manoj Bhargava (born 1953) is an Indian American billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC (dba Living Essentials LLC), the company known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink.
Bhargava was born in Lucknow, India in 1953, and in 1967, moved with his family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Bhargava won a math scholarship to an "elite private academy" called The Hill School, and after high school graduation attended Princeton University for one year in 1972.
Asim Ghosh, president and chief executive officer at Husky Energy :
Asim Ghosh retired in December 2016 and sat on Husky's Board of Directors until December 2020 when it merged with Cenovus Energy Inc.
Asim Ghosh has held senior leadership roles in Canada, India and Hong Kong at a number of multinational corporations, including Carling O'Keefe (now part of Molson Coors), Pepsi Foods, and Hutchison Whampoa.
Asim Ghosh did his schooling at St. Columba's School, Delhi and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
Asim Ghosh received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
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