Indian heads of global companies

Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella joins the growing list of India-origin executives heading global corporations. Here is a look at a few of them. (Photo: Kevin P. Casey/The New York Times)

Chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi was born in Chennai. An alumnus of IIM Calcutta, she joined PepsiCo in 1994. In 2013, Ms Nooyi was ranked 10th in the list of Forbes World's 100 most powerful women.

Hyderabad-born Prem Watsa is the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holding. Mr Watsa was born in 1950 and trained as a chemical engineer at IIT Chennai. Mr Watsa is often described as the Canadian Warren Buffett because he also takes the long view.

Rajeev Suri is the chief executive officer of Nokia Solutions and Networks. He joined Nokia in 1995, and has held numerous executive level positions in the company. Born in 1967, he has a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications) from Mangalore University.

Anshu Jain took over as Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank in June, 2012. He was born in Jaipur, India.

Ajaypal Singh Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard. Mr Banga had joined MasterCard in 2009 and before that was an executive with Citigroup for 13 years.

Rakesh Kapoor has been CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Plc since September 2011 He is an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and has a chemical engineering degree from BITS Pilani

Ivan Menezes was appointed chief executive of Diageo Plc in July 2013. He holds a BA degree in Economics from St Stephen's College, Delhi, and a PG Diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

CEO of Adobe Systems Shantanu Narayen joined Adobe in 1998. He was appointed CEO of the company in November 2007.

Dr Sanjay Kumar Jha was appointed CEO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES in January 2014. Before joining GLOBALFOUNDRIES he was chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobility. Mr Jha had started his career at Qualcomm

COO of Unilever and non-executive chairman of Hindustan Unilever, Harish Manwani, is a graduate from the Mumbai University.

CEO at DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank, Piyush Gupta, is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to joining DBS, Piyush was Citigroup's chief executive officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Rajeev Vasudeva is CEO of Zurich-based executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Mr.Vasudeva joined Egon Zehnder in 1995 when his consultancy Sachar Vasudeva & Associates merged with Egon Zehnder. Mr Vasudeva has a BA in economics from St Stephens College, Delhi, and an MBA from University of Michigan.