10 Indian-Origin CEOs Of Billion Dollar Companies

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Sundar Pichai is a prominent CEO among Indian-descent leaders of global corporations. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, he became CEO of Google in 2015 and Alphabet Inc. in 2019 

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Tech leader Satya Nadella, a graduate of Manipal University, became CEO of Microsoft in 2014, joining the ranks of prominent Indian-descent CEOs in the Silicon Valley

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Leena Nair is the global CEO of luxury fashion house Chanel. An alum of Xavier School of Management, Ms Nair started her new position at Chanel in January 2022

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Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe, is a native of Hyderabad and earned degrees from Osmania University. He pursued further studies at the University of California, Bowling Green State University

Laxman Narasimhan spent 19 years at McKinsey, leading their New Delhi office. In 2019, he became CEO of Reckitt Benckiser, implementing a turnaround plan. Starbucks named him CEO in September 2022

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Indian-origin Ajay Banga was selected as the president of the World Bank in 2023. Earlier, he served as the Vice Chairman at General Atlantic


Arvind Krishna, an IIT Kanpur alumnus, continued his education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In April 2020, he was named CEO of IBM, and in January 2021, its Chairman as well

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Sanjay Mehrotra, a native of Kanpur, graduated from BITS Pilani and received his higher education at UC Berkeley. In 2017, Mr Mehrotra was appointed CEO of Micron Technologies

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Vivek Sankaran joined Albertsons Companies in 2019 as President and CEO. Mr Sankaran has an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the IIT Chennai

George Kurian, is an Indian-American business leader is the Chief Executive Officer and a board member at NetApp

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