CEOs Of Indian Origin Heading U.S. Companies

Posted: 2/1/2020

It is an interesting trend of recent times that more and more well known U.S. companies are run by persons of Indian origin.

Most recently Ginni Rometty of IBM announced to step down this year (2020) and be replaced by Arvind Krishna.

Others are (in no particular order):

Sundar Pichai (Google, since 2015)

Satya Nadella (Microsoft, since 2014)

Ajay Banga (MasterCard, since 2010)

Francisco D'Souza (Cognizant, since 2007)

Shantanu Narayen (Adobe, since 2007)

Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron Technology, since 2017, before that SanDisk)

Dinesh Paliwal (Harman International Industries, since 2007)

This trend is not peculiar to the United States. E.g. a recent CEO of Deutsche Bank was a Jain by the name of Anshu Jain (now CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald). It appears the publicly available information about Anshu Jain has been cleaned of references to his Jainism.

Sources (S):

1. CEOs of Indian origin heading global companies (1/7/2019)
2. GINNI ROMETTY: Chefin von IBM tritt zurück (1/30/2020)