7 Indian CEOs who rule the technology World

It is quite clear in the recent years that we Indians are leaving our mark everywhere, name the field and we are on top of that. Now this applies in every particular stream, whether you talk about Education, Technology, Doctors, Scientists or even Commerce. We are progressing like no other country and we truly deserve to be the fastest growing economy in the whole world, now this applies in the field of technology too; here are 7 Indian origin CEOs who are currently ruling the technology world: –
1. Sundar Pichai – Google

Sundar Pichai has been extremely popular these days on the social media as because he the latest one to create a name for himself after he was appointed the CEO of Google. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and perceived education from IIT Kharagpur, Stanford and Wharton. He had been the product head for Maps, Chrome, Android, and other popular products of Google.

2. Satya Nadella – Microsoft

Nadella had been working for 22years with Microsoft before he was appointed the chief executing officer of the company. He had been the executive vice president of Enterprise group and Microsoft’s Cloud. He was born in Hyderabad and has done his MBA from University of Chicago, MS from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and BE from Manipal Institute of Technology.

3. Rajeev Suri – Nokia

Rajeev Suri had joined Nokia in 1995 and had held various positions before he was appointed as the chief executing officer and CEO in April 2014. After Microsoft acquired Nokia, Suri was soon appointed as the CEO of the company. He was the head of the India’s Division of the company. He has done his B Tech from Manipal Institute of Technology but does have any post graduate degrees.

4. Shantanu Narayen – Adobe

Shantanu Narayen had joined Adobe in 1988 as the senior vice president of the worldwide product research and became the chief executing officer in 2005. He has done his B.sc from Osmania University, MS from Bowling Green State University and MBA from University of California, Berkley. He was born in Hyderabad and also works as an advisory board of Haas School of Business.

5.Sanjay Jha – Global Foundries

For all those who do not know what is Global Foundries, it is a foundry which produces chips for giants like Broadcom, AMD, STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm. Sanjay Jha has also served as the chief executing officer of Motorola Mobility and the COO of Qualcomm. He was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar. He holds a BS from University of Liverpool and a PhD from University of Strathclyde.

6. Sanjay Mehrotra – Sandisk

Sanjay Mehrotra has been the CEO of the company since January 2011, he had co-founded the company in 1988. He has pursued masters and bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, Berkley and had also gone to Stanford for executive program. He holds several patents to his name.

7. Nikesh Arora – Softbank Internet & Media

Softbank Internet & Media is a newly formed subsidiary of Japanese telecom giant Softbank. Apart from being the CEO of the company he is also the president and COO of Softbank corporation. He has an annual package of $135 million. He is the third highest paid executive in the world, he has also been the chief business officer at Google. He had done his B.tech from IIT Varanasi (before IT-BHU) and MBA from Northeastern University. He also holds a CFA – Chief Financial Analyst certificate.

In the coming decade, we are sure that the number of Indian CEOs of such big companies is going to increase, thus we can conclude that India is indeed the fastest growing economy in the world.

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