Indian CEOs who head global technology companies

Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud

Indian-American Thomas Kurian took on the mantle of Google Cloud Chief. He took over from Diane Greene who will continue through January. Kurian comes with 22 years of experience at Oracle where he was President of Product Development. There are several other Indian CEOs who have made it big in global technology giants.

Indian-American Shantanu Narayen heads one of the leading software companies Adobe. In November 2018, he celebrated his 11th anniversary in his current position in Adobe. He is well known for his leadership skills, his insight into technology, the latter having helped Adobe to add several products to its portfolio. Today he is one of the world's top paid tech CEOs.

Sundar Pichai, Google

Hailing from Tamil Nadu, Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004. By 2015 he was CEO of the technology giant. He was serving as Google's head of Products and engineering before he was picked for the top job. One of his outstanding achievements at Google is the launch of the Google browser Chrome which became a big hit surpassing other browsers like explorer and Firefox  

Satya Nadella, Microsoft

Indian American Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer in 2014. Before becoming CEO Nadella was Executive Vice President and led the cloud and enterprise group. Nadella hails from Hyderabad and completed electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology. Under his leadership Microsoft has become known for its cloud computing services

Former Softbank President and top Google executive Nikesh Arora joined cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks as its CEO. Earlier this year, Arora hogged the headlines for the fat pay packet worth about $128 million that he bagged in his new job as CEO Palo Alto Networks Inc, reportedly making him one of the highest-paid US executives. He worked in Google from 2004 to 2014. This Indian businessman has his roots in India where he studied at Indian Institute of Technology. He knows the Indian market well and that is an obvious advantage in his current role with Palo Alto Networks

This Singaporean Indian executive is the CEO of Nokia. He has held various key positions in Nokia since 1995. He was born in New Delhi and studied engineering at the Manipal Institute of Technology. He was appointed CEO of Nokia in April 2014 and is currently based in Finland.

George Kurian, NetApp

In June 2015 George Kurian took over as President and CEO of data management company NetApp. Before joining NetApp he was with Cisco Systems. He was born in Kerala and is a product of IIT Madras. He has worked at companies like Akamai Technologies, McKinsey & Company and Oracle Corporation.

Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron Technology

Currently Mehrotra is President and CEO of Micron Technology. He is also the co-founder of SanDisk Corporation which he helmed from 2011 to 2016. He spent the early part of his education in Delhi. He also studied for some time at BITS Pilani before being transferred to University of California.