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Top Five Indian origin CEOs of Tech Companies

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Indian are able to showcase ther talents in the global arena, especially in the tech world. Here is a list of Top Five Indian origin CEOs for global tech companies.

1. Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is a technology executive who is Product Chief at Google Inc. Pichai was announced as the next Chief Executive Officer of Google on August 10, 2015.
Born: 1972, Chennai, India
Nationality: American
Spouse: Anjali Pichai
Employer: Google
Parents: Lakshmi Pichai, Regunatha Pichai
Education: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

2. Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive
officer of Microsoft. He was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer.
Born: August 19, 1967 (age 48), Hyderabad, India
Spouse: Anupama Nadella (m. 1992)
Children: Zain Nadella, Divya Nadella, Tara Nadella
Education: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1990), more
Parents: Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, Prabhavati Yugandhar

3. Rajeev Suri is the chief executive officer of Nokia. Before the current assignment in May 2014, he was the CEO of Nokia Solutions and Networks since 2009 and held various positions in Nokia since 1995.
Born: October 10, 1967 (age 47), New Delhi, India
Employer: Nokia
Education: Mangalore University
Spouse: Nina Suri (m. 1992)
Children: Anish Suri, Ankit Suri

4. Shantanu Narayen is an Indian American business executive and the CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this, he was the president and chief operating officer since 2005. He is also the president of the board of the Adobe Foundation.
Born: May 27, 1963 (age 52), Hyderabad, India
Board member of: Dell, Adobe Systems, University of California, Berkeley
Education: University of California, Berkeley

5. Sanjay Kumar Jha is the CEO of GlobalFoundries and former chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobility. Prior to that he was the chief operating officer of Qualcomm.
Born: 1963, Sultanganj, India
Residence: San Diego, California, United States
Education: University of Liverpool, University of Strathclyde
There are few more names that can be added in the list, who are making Indians proud...

Sanjay Mehrotra is co-founder of SanDisk and the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed to this role in January 2011.

Nikesh Arora is the President ; Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Corp, and was a former Google executive.

Francisco D'Souza, Frank, is the CEO of Cognizant and was part of the team that founded the NASDAQ-100 company in 1994. In 2007, at the age of 38, he took over from Lakshmi Narayanan, who was promoted to Vice Chairman.

Amitabh Kumar Singhal is senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google's core ranking team. Wikipedia

Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist, who is the chairman of Wipro Limited, informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.

Shiv Nadar is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. As of 2015, his personal wealth is estimated at $13.7 Billion.

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