If you throw a stone into Silicon Valley, you are most likely to hit an Indian-origin CEO.
Until a decade ago, there was only a few of them, mostly in consumer goods, tech, and finance.
Citigroup's Vikram Pandit did not last long at the top. More and more companies are turning to Indian-origin talent for their top brass.
Several of these high performers are alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology or other elite institutions of the country.
In the first two years of the 2020s, there have been almost as many Indian-origin CEO appointments as there were in the entire 2010s. This excludes second- generation immigrants like Aneel Bhushri and Niraj Shah from being included.
There are non-exhaustive Indian-origin CEOs in the US.
The chemical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay hails from Thiruvananthapuram. He has worked at FedEx for more than 30 years. Before he was made president and CEO of the company on March 29, 2022, Subramaniam held a number of strategy and operations roles.
A native of a small town in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Nair took charge of the company in December of 2021. She is the first woman to hold that position.
He spent 30 years with the consumer goods giant after starting his career in India. She became a British citizen after working her way up.
After serving as the chief technology officer for the past year, he became the new CEO of the company.
The company's culture has been good for the graduate of the IIT Bombay. He has already taken leave, reduced management oversight, and championed flexible working.
On Nov. 1, 2021, the company appointed Venkatakrishnan as CEO.
Venkatakrishnan was with New York-based JPMorgan Chase for two decades. The first person of colour to hold the position is seen as a fine balance between a risk-taker and a consensus-seeker.
On June 1, 2021, the cloud computing company elevated Raghuram from executive vice-president and chief operating officer to CEO. He joined the firm in 2003 and has helped grow it's core business.
Sharmistha Dubey took over as CEO of Match on March 1, 2020. She used to be the chief operating officer at the dating andmatrimony platform, which is owned by Match.
The boss of romance created a fund to support employees who were affected by the restrictive Texas abortion law.
Syngal has been with Gap for a while. She was the leader of Gap-owned Old Navy for four years. Reducing store count and taking more risks has been her strategy to help the fashion brand.
Unlike other Indian-origin CEOs, he didn't grow up with WeWork. He was hired as an outsider for the crucial role. The real estate expert was tasked with growing the company.
The company that inspired Apple TV+ Series WeCrashed is in dire need of damage control.
IBM hired the IIT-Kanpur graduate in 1990. He was the head of the cloud and cognitive software unit before he became CEO.
The credit for IBM's landmark deal with open source technology firm Red Hat goes to Krishna.
The company's public face has been Pichai since he became CEO. The 1993 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur replaced founder Larry Page at the top of the company.
With the coveted position came a host of problems, including over 70 different moonshots spread across sectors.
On May 23, 2019, he came to Panera from Krispy Kreme, where he served as COO and president. He spent 23 years in India and the US at the restaurant. The parent company of the two fast food chains.
Advaithi was brought on board to lead the company that makes everything from hair dryers to Macs. The mechanical engineering graduate from India's BITS is an advocate of diversity in the workplace.
After attending BITS Pilani, Mehrotra attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his masters degree. He was the president and CEO of the company until it was acquired by Western Digital. He was the president and CEO at the time.
The data storage and management company had a new CEO on June 1, 2015. For more than two years, he was its executive vice-president of product operations.
Thomas is the CEO of Google Cloud.
A small-town boy from India, who won a scholarship to study at a university in the US, became the CEO of the accounting firm on May 31, 2015. He has never looked back.
The first Asian to lead the biggest among consulting's Big Four, his mother still lives in his childhood home.
He moved to the US for his masters degree after growing up in India. He joined Microsoft as a young engineer in 1992 and rose through the ranks to lead the early versions of Microsoft Office, Xbox Live, and the cloud platform. Since taking over as CEO, he has worked to rid Microsoft of bureaucracy, suspicion, and alleged short-sightedness. He introduced collaborative hackathons and scrapped an unpopular performance ranking system that forced managers to give a percentage of negative reviews.
A mother who taught American literature and a father who ran a plastics company were the people Narayen was raised by. He moved to the US for his masters.
The chair, president, and CEO of Adobe is an avid follower of the Indian cricket team.
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