Indians Who Head Top IT Companies..

The technology sector has been the biggest platform for Indians to showcase their talent and capabilities. Good education, technical expertise, ability to work in difficult situations and managerial skills are helping Indians achieve great strides in the global arena.

Interestingly, Sundar Pichai has joined the big league of 12 Indian origin persons holding top posts at global corporations with collective turnover of about $400 billion.

There are more Indian CEOs than any other nationality after Americans in S&P 500 companies, finds a study by Egon Zehnder.

Time magazine once termed CEOs as India’s leading ‘export’ and said that the subcontinent could be ‘the ideal training ground for global bosses’.

Here are the Indians who head top IT companies…

Sundar Pichai CEO, Google 

“I feel very fortunate to have someone as talented as him to run the slightly slimmed down Google and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations. I have been spending quite a bit of time with Sundar, helping him and the company in any way I can, and I will of course continue to do that,” Larry Page, Co-founder Google said in a blog post about Sundar Pichai after appointing him as Google’s CEO.

As CEO of Google, the soft-spoken 43-year-old Pichai will head core tech projects like Google search engine, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android system. 

"Pichai has really stepped up since October of last year, when he took on product and engineering responsibility for our internet businesses. Sergey and I have been super excited about his progress and dedication to the company”, Page said.

Page added that Pichai will continue to stretch boundaries and ensure that Google in its new form “can continue to make big strides on our core mission to organise the world’s information”. 

A topper in Metallurgical Engineering, from IIT Kharagpur, Pichai has seen a meteoric rise in his career from holding significant posts in Google to becoming its CEO.

After joining Google in 2004, Pichai led the product management and innovation efforts for key products including Google Chrome and Chrome OS and Google Drive.

Pichai , who is from Tamil Nadu, worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and at McKinsey & Company before he joined Google.

Pichai is hailed for building a great team and outstanding products that gives a lead over other companies. 

Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft

One of the biggest success stories of an Indian in the technology space comes from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

After working for two decades, Nadella made history by being the first Indian to head the world’s biggest software company.

The highest paid executive in the United States, Nadella himself admitted that heading Microsoft was ‘beyond his dreams’.

"After joining Microsoft in 1992, Nadella quickly became known within the company as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and businesses to transform some of Microsoft’s biggest product offerings,” according to Microsoft.

One of the most influential technology wizards of our time, Forbes magazine recently ranked Nadella among the world’s 72 most powerful people.

Nadella, who hails from Hyderabad, holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering in electronics and communication from Manipal Institute of Technology.

Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems before he joined Microsoft. 

Sanjay Kumar Jha
CEO, Global Foundries

Sanjay Kumar Jha who hails from Bihar is now the CEO of Global Foundries, the world's first full-service semiconductor foundry.

One of the highest-paid Indian executives in the US, he was earlier the chief executive officer of Motorola’s mobile devices business.

He has a PhD in electronics engineering from University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Shantanu Narayen
CEO, Adobe

Shantanu Narayen who’s from Hyderabad heads one of the world’s leading software companies, Adobe.

Nine years after joining Adobe, Narayen was appointed as CEO in 2007.

One of world’s top paid tech CEOs, he is lauded for his leadership qualities, technology insight and operational proficiency, which helped Adobe expand its products portfolio.

Narayen holds an electronics engineering degree from Osmania University, MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and Masters in computer science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.