Jack Dorsey has resigned from his position as Twitter’s CEO, and will be replaced by Parag Agarwal, who will now be CEO and a member of Twitter’s board. Agarwal’s appointment has made him one of the many Indian-origin technocrats leading large-tech firms. With Agarwal becoming the latest Indian to head a tech firm, let’s take a look at some of the most prominent Indian leaders in Silicon Valley.
1. Sundar Pichai – everyone knows Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Pichai has been the CEO of Google since 2015. He joined Google in 2004, where he led product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google’s client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS. Pichai earned a degree in metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, an MS in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
2. Satya Nadella Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft since 2014. He was the third CEO of Microsoft after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and has been at the company since 1992. Nadella Born in Hyderabad, Telangana, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka, and an MS in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Nadella later earned an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
3. Shantanu Narayan – CEO of adobeNarayan has been the CEO of Adobe since 2007. Prior to this, Narayan was Adobe’s COO since 2005. Narayan joined Adobe in 1998 as senior vice president of worldwide product development. Narayan holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from the University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He did his Masters in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He later did his MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
4. Arvind Krishna Arvind Krishna has been the CEO ibm Held the role of a chairman from April 2020 and in January 2021. Krishna joined IBM in 1990 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, where he managed the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. Krishna holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.
5. Jayshree Ullal – CEO of Arista Networks, Ullal has been CEO since 2008. The executive previously worked with AMD, Cisco and Fairchild Semiconductor. Ullal holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University and a Masters in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.
6. Anjali Sud – Vimeo’s CEO, Sood has been with the company since 2014 and joined as Head of Global Marketing. Sood graduated with a BSc in Finance and Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2011.
7. Revathi Adwaithi –CEO of Flex, an American multinational electronics contract manufacturer. Advaithi was named the CEO of Flex in 2019. He holds a bachelor’s degree from BITS Pilani and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
8. Nikesh Arora Nikesh Arora is the CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Arora was named CEO for Palo Alto Networks in 2018, having previously worked at companies such as Google and SoftBank. Arora has a bachelor’s degree from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University, and an MBA from Northeastern University with an MSc from Boston College.
9. Sanjay Mehrotra Mehrotra is the CEO of Micron Technology. He has held this position since 2017. Mehrotra is a co-founder of SanDisk, and served as the President and CEO of SanDisk until its acquisition by Western Digital (WD).
10. George Kurian Kurien became the CEO and President of data storage company NetApp in 2015. He studied engineering from IIT Madras, but dropped out to pursue the same course from Princeton University. He has an MBA from Stanford University.
1 1 Anil Bhusri Anil Bhusari is the CEO of Workday. He co-founded Workday in 2005 and has served as the company’s CEO since then. Bhusari holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate Business School.
12. Aman Bhutani GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani is serving as CEO since 2019. Prior to this, Bhutani worked at Expedia, where he was CTO and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Engineering. Bhutani is a graduate of Delhi University and an MBA from Lancaster University.
13. Steve Sanghi Steve Sanghi is the CEO of Microchip Technology Inc. Sanghi is also the founder and first chairman of the company. He was named President of Microchip in August 1990 and has been CEO since 1991. Sanghi holds a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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