From Google to Twitter; 'Indian CEO Virus' grips top tech companies
'Indian CEO Virus': Several Indian-origin persons are today leading some of the world's top tech companies, such as Google, Microsoft, IBM and Adobe. Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday also gave a shout out to Indian talent in America after Parag Agrawal was appointed the chief executive officer of Twitter.
From Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter, all major tech giants have one thing in common — all are being run by Indian-origin CEOs.
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Patrick Collison wrote on Twitter, “Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. (Congrats, @paraga!)”
Anand Mahindra shared Patrick Collison's tweet and wrote, “This is one pandemic that we are happy & proud to say originated in India. It’s the Indian CEO Virus… No vaccine against it.” Elon Musk replied to Patrick Collison's tweet and wrote on Twitter, “USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!” Besides Parag Agrawal, here’s a list of top Indian Origin CEOs ruling the worldGoogle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. ???? (Congrats, @paraga!)
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) November 29, 2021
Satya Nadella (Microsoft)
Satyanarayana Nadella is an Indian-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.
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Sunder Pichai (Alphabet.inc/Google)
Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015.
Arvind Krishna (IBM)
Arvind Krishna is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. As a business leader and technologist, he has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain.
Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)
Shantanu Narayen is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Adobe, one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world.
Raghu Raghuram (VMWare)
VMware selected its longtime technologist and cloud leader Raghu Raghuram as its new CEO replacing former CEO Pat Gelsinger who left to head Intel.
Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks)
Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span.
-PTC News
