‘Indian CEO Virus’ ruling the World; From Google to Twitter - Meet these CEOs of Indian Origin 
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‘Indian CEO Virus’ ruling the World; From Google to Twitter - Meet these CEOs of Indian Origin

“USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!” tweets Elon Musk.

As Parag Agrawal is appointed as the TwitterCEO, Indian talent is getting recognized worldwide. The technology sector isthe best example of why Indians are the best around the world. From Google,Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter, all the major techgiants have one thing in common. They all are run by Indian-origin CEOs.

Patrick Collison wrote on Twitter, “Google,Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grewup in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in thetechnology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers toimmigrants. (Congrats, @paraga!)”

Anand Mahindra shared Patrick Collison's tweetand wrote, “This is one pandemic that we are happy & proud to sayoriginated in India. It’s the Indian CEO Virus… No vaccine against it.”

Elon Musk replied to Patrick Collison's tweetand wrote on Twitter, “USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!”

Apart from Parag Agrawal, here’s a list oftop Indian Origin CEOs ruling the World:

·      SunderPichai – CEO of Alphabet.inc

Pichai Sundararajan is an Indian-American businessexecutive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of AlphabetInc. and its subsidiary Google. Pichai was selected to become thenext CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after previously beingappointed Product Chief by CEO Larry Page. 

·      SatyaNadella – CEO of Microsoft

Satyanarayana Nadella is anIndian-born American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft,succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W.Thompson in 2021 as chairman.

·      ArvindKrishna – CEO of IBM

Arvind Krishna is serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM.He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman inJanuary 2021.  He was a principal architect of the acquisition of RedHat, the largest acquisition in the company’s history.

·      ShantanuNarayen – CEO of Adobe

Shantanu Narayen has been the chairman,president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adobe Inc. sinceDecember 2007. In November 2007, Adobe announced that Bruce Chizen wouldstep down as CEO effective December 1, 2007, to be replaced by Narayen.

·      RaghuRaghuram – CEO of VMWare

The CEO of VMWare, Raghu Raghuram joined thecompany in 2003. Raghuram has held multiple leadership roles at VMWareincluding CEO. Raghu joined when the company was a 5 year old startup and becameCEO of VMware on 12th May, 2021.

·      NikeshArora – CEO of Palo Alto Networks

Nikesh Arora was formerly a senior executiveat Google. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role of CEO andchairman at Palo Alto Networks. Arora has served on the board of directorsat Aviva, Airtel, Colgate-Palmolive, Richemont (Current) Sprint, Softbank, TheHarlem Children Zone, Tipping Point (Current) and Yahoo Japan (Chairman). 

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