Indians flying high in Silicon Valley. Destination: C-Suite
tech world by storm in the US. A number of the top-tier leadership positions or CXOs in these companies are also held by Indians or those of Indian origin. While the spotlight is on the likes of Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the second rung is also filled with Indian Americans who are likely to be the leaders of tomorrow at these companies.
They include Apple senior vice president of operations Sabih Khan; Nvidia executive vice president of worldwide field operations Jay Puri and senior vice president of enterprise sales and business development Shanker Trivedi; Tesla chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja and Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan, who is widely considered to the second most important executive at the search giant.
Other prominent executives include Meta vice president of machine learning Sandeep Pandey and vice president of product management Ragavan Srinivasan; storage major Micron’s chief business officer Sumit Sadana; Salesforce president and chief engineering officer Srini Tallapragada; Manish Sharma, chief executive officer, North America, Accenture; or Naga Chandrasekaran, who has been appointed chief global operations officer at global chip company Intel two weeks ago. He replaced company veteran Keyvan Esfarjani who retired after 30 years at Intel.
As per not-for-profit Indiaspora’s recent impact report in partnership with BCG, about one-third of tech employees in Silicon Valley are of Indian origin.
Significant presence in startup
