1/2 Sundar Pichai
Current Status: CEO of Google and Alphabet
Background: Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he initially worked on the
development of the Google Toolbar. He was appointed Senior Vice President of
Chrome and Apps in 2012, overseeing Chrome, Chrome OS, and Google Drive. In
2013, he became the Senior Vice President of Android.
Education: Pichai pursued engineering studies at the Indian Institute of
Technology in Kharagpur. Subsequently, he got his master's degree from
Stanford University and completed an MBA at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
2/21 Satya Nadella
Current Status: CEO of Microsoft
Background: Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and has held various key positions
within the company. Prior to becoming CEO, he led the Cloud and Enterprise
division, overseeing the development of Microsoft Azure.
Education: Nadella was raised in Hyderabad and pursued electrical engineering
at Mangalore University. In 1990, he achieved a master's degree in computer
science from the University of Wisconsin.
3/2 Neal Mohan
Current Status: CEO of YouTube
Background: Before joining YouTube, Mohan worked at Google, where he
served as Vice President of Display and Video Advertising Products.
Education: Raised in Michigan and Florida, with a brief period spent in India
during high school at St. Francis' College, Mohan returned to the U.S. and
enrolled at Stanford University. He completed his degree in electrical
engineering in 1996.
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4/2 Ajay Banga
Current Status: President of the World Bank Group
Background: Banga started his career at Nestle India. Prior to joining
Mastercard as President and Chief Operating Officer, Banga served as the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO)of Citigroup Asia Pacific.
Education: Banga holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Delhi
University, India. He also has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad.
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5/a Nikesh Arora
Current Status: CEO of Palo Alto Networks
Background: Arora began his career in finance, working at Fidelity Investments
and T-Mobile. He gained prominence during his tenure at Google, where he
served as Chief Marketing Officer and later as Senior Vice President and Chief
Business Officer.
Education: Arora holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from IT Varanasi (now IT
BHU). He earneda Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from
Northeastern University.
6/2 Vivek Sankaran
Current Status: CEO of Abertsons
Background Sankaran joined Albertsons Companies in 2019 as President and
CEO. Prior to joiningAlbertsons, he served as President and CO0 of Frito-Lay, a
division of PepsiCo. Sankaran has also held executive roles at PepsiCo, including
Chief Commercial Oficer and Senior Vice President of Strategy.
Ecucaticn He has an MBA from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in
manufacturing from Ceorgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in
mechanical engineering from the IIT Chennai.
7/a George Kurian
Current Status: CEO of NetApp
Background: Kurian joined NetApp in 2011 as Senior Vice President of the
Storage Solutions Group. Over the years, he held various leadership positions
within the company, including Executive Vice President of Product Operations
and Chief Financial Officer.
Education: Kurian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from Princeton University. He earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
8/2 Jayshree Ullal
Current Status: CEO of Arista Networks
Background: Ullal joined Cisco Systems in 1993, where she held various
leadership positions, including Senior Vice President of the Data Center,
Switching, and Services Technology Group. In 2008, she became the President
and CEO of Arista Networks.
Education: Ullal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Electrical)
from San Francisco State University.
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9/2 Shantanu Narayen
Current Status: CEO of Adobe
Background: Prior to joining Adobe, Narayen worked at Apple and Silicon
Graphics. He joined Adobe in 1998 as the Vice President and General Manager
of the engineering technology group.
Education: Narayen holdsa bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from
Osmania University in India. Later, he pursued higher education in the United
States.
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10/2 Arvind Krishna
Current Status: CEO of IBM
Background: Krishna joined BM in 1990 and has held various technical and
executive roles within the company. He played a key role in the development of
IBM's cloud and cognitive computing initiatives.
Education: Krishna holds a BSc from IIT Kanpur, MSC and PhD from the U
1/2 Vasant Narasimhan
Current Status: CEO of Novartis
Background: An Indian-American physician, Vasant Vas Narasimhan was born
in Pittsburgh in 1976. After completing his studies, Narasimhan joined Mckinsey
&Co. and in 2005 he was recruited by Novartis, where he held key positions.
Education: Narasimhan graduated from the University of Chicago with a
bachelor's degree in biological sciences, Harvard Medical School with an M.D.,
and the John F. Kennedy School of Government witha master's degree in
public policy.
12/21 Laxman Narasimhan
Current Status: CEO of Starbucks
Background: Born in 1967 in Maharashtra's Pune. Prior to Starbucks, he served
as chief executive officer of Reckitt. He has also served as an executive in various
leadership roles at PepsiCo, including as global chief commercial officer. Prior to
PepsiCo, he spent 19 years at Mckinsey &Company
Education: Laxman Narasimhan has a degree in mechanical engineering from
the College of Engineering, Pune. He also has an MA in German and
International Studies fromn The Lauder Institute at the University of
Pennsylvania, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.
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13/2 Sanjay Mehrotra
Current Status: CEO of Micron Technology
Background: Born in Kanpur, in 1958. He was one of the co-founders of SanDisk,
and from 2011 until Western Digital acquired the company in 2016, he was its
president and CEO. Mehrotra has more than 40 years of experience in the
semiconductor memory industry, holding engineering and leadership positions
at Integrated Device Technology, SEEQ Technology and Intel Corp.
Education: Mehrotra earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical
engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley
and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive
Program
14/a Vimal Kapur
Current Status: CEO of Honeywell
Background: He started his career at a Honeywell Joint Venture in 1989 and
eventually becane the Managing Director of Honeywell Automation India Ltd
in 2006. Prior to becoming CEO, Kapur was President and Chief Operating
Officer of Honeywell. He previously served as President and CEO of Honeywell
Performance Materials and Technologies.
Education: Kapur graduated from Thapar Institute of Engineering in Patiala,
India, as an electronics engineer with a specialisation in instrumentation.
15/2 Revathi Advaithi
Current Status: CEO of Flex
Background: Advaithi was employed byy Eaton and Honeywell in a variety of
leadership capacities before joining Flex in 2019. Advaithi has joined the WEF
Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders (2021) and is a co-chair of the World Economic
Forum (WEF) Advanced Manufacturing CEO Community (2022). She presently
sits on the boards of Uber and Catalyst.org as an independent director. Her
membership in the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board is another one.
Fortune's Most Powerful Women list included her in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and
2023.
Education: Advaithi received an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global
Management in 2005 after graduating with a bachelor's degree in mechanical
engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 1990.
16/a Niraj Shah
Current Status: CEO of Wayfair
Background: Shah grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He co-founded Wayfair
with Steve Conine in 2002. Before founding Wayfair, Shah served as CEO and
co-founder of Simplify Mobile, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners,
COO and a member of the board of iXL, and the CEO and co-founder of
Spinners. In 2017, Shah became a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston. Shah has been included in Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40, and has
won the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Education: Shah holds a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University.
17/22 Leena Nair
Current Status: CEO of Chanel
Background: Leena Nair was born on June 1, 1969, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
She spent 20 years at Unilever. Nair first joined Unilever as a summer intern and
then became a management trainee of Hindustan Unilever in 1992. From there,
she rose to the position of Chief Human Resources Officer, before joining
Chanel as its CEO in 2022.
Education: She earned a gold medal at XLRI- Xavier School of Management
after completing her bachelor's degree in electronics and telecoms (E&TC)
engineering at Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli (Maharashtra).
18/ Anirudh Devgan
Current Status: CEO of Cadence Design Systems
Background: He was President of Cadence until taking on the role of CEO in
2021. Previously, he held the positions of Executive Vice President and General
Manager for the Digital &Signoff and System Verification departments. Before
coming to Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan worked as an executive staff member
and Corporate VP at Magma Design Automation. Previously, he held technical
and management positions at IBM.
Education:Devgan has Indian Institute of Technology (B.Tech) Carnegie Mellon
Universityy (M.S, Ph.D)
19/2 Ravi Kumar S
Current Status: CEO of Cognizant
Background: Before joining Cognizant, Ravi was President of Infosys from 2016
to 2022, during which he oversaw the company's global services division in all
market sectors and presided over the Infosys BPM Ltd. board.
Education: He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Shivaji University
and an M.B.A. from Xavier Institute of Management, India.
20/2 Jay Chaudhry
Current Status: CEO of Zscaler
Background: Born in a village in Himachal Pradesh, Chaudhry founded SecurelT
(acquired by Verisign) and CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing
Corporation) in 1997. After this, he went on to establish Zscaler, a cybersecurity
firm.
Education: He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with an MBA in
marketing, an MS in computer engineering, and an MS in industrial
engineering. He graduated from IIT BHU Varanasiwith a Bachelor of
Technology in Electronics Engineering. Chaudhry has finished Harvard
Business School's Executive Management Programme.
21/a Reshma Kewalramani
Current Status: CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Background: Born in Mumbai. Kewalramani started her medical career at
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.She also
worked as a doctor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. After that, she went into the biopharma
industry and spent more than 12 years working at Amgen, where she rose to
leadership roles in both research and development. She began working at
Vertex Pharmaceuticals in 2017.
Education: She earned her medical degree, with honors, from the seven-year
medicine program at the Boston University School of Medicine and completed
the General Management Programn at Harvard Business School.
