PROGRES.ID – Immigrants from India to the United States are very large. In fact, India is now the country with the most “exports” of immigrants to the US, surpassing Mexico.
The VOA article states that in 2010 the number of Asian immigrants outnumbered Hispanic immigrants. The number from Latin America fell sharply after the economic recession in early 2008.
In 2017, 126,000 people came to India from India, followed by Mexicans with 124,000, Chinese immigrants with 121,000 and Cubans with 41,000. Indeed, according to the Pew Research Center. Asians are projected to be the largest immigrant group in the United States by 2055, outperforming Hispanics.
Indians in the US work a lot in technology. You work in world-class technology companies. Interestingly, there are currently many Indian citizens holding strategic positions in world technology companies based in the United States.
Recently, Jack Dorsey announced his resignation as CEO of Twitter. In his tweet he mentioned Parag Agrawal, a man from India who will continue to run Twitter. Dorsey’s decision was welcomed by many people, including Tesla founder Elon Musk.
Prior to Parag Agrawal, there were a number of Indian or Indian immigrants who currently hold the position of CEO of technology companies in the United States. Everyone?
- Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai’s real name is Pichai Sundarajan. He is the CEO of Alphabet Inc (the parent company of Google). He was born on July 12, 1972). Pichai grew up in India. In fact, he received his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He then earned an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
According to Wikipedia, Pichai joined Google in 2004. Pichai began his career at Google as the head of product management and innovation for Google’s client software, including Google Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Drive. He is also responsible for developing applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. Pichai is also the person who developed the VP8 video codec and introduced the WebM video format. He has also been a director at Jive Software since April 2011. Pichai is married and has one daughter.
- Satya Nadella
Her full name is Satya Narayana Nadella. He has been CEO of Microsoft since February 4, 2014, replacing Steve Ballmer. Born on August 19, 1967 in Hyderabad, India, he was previously Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft, responsible for the development and management of enterprise computing platforms, developer tools and cloud computing services.
- Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen joined Adobe Inc. in December 2007 as a senior executive. He was born on May 27, 1963 in Hyderabad, India. Prior to becoming CEO of Adobe, he had been with Adobe since 2005.
- Arvind Krishna
Arvind Krishna is another Indian who works as the CEO of a technology company. Born in West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, in 1962, the man has been CEO of IBM since April 2020. Krishna has had a career with IBM since 1990.
- Nikesh Arora
Nikesh Arora is the CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Arora previously held senior positions at Google. From October 2014 to June 2016 he was also President of the SoftBank Group.
Born on February 9, 1968 in Ghaziabad, India, the man is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU). - Parag Agrawal
He is the person we talked about at the beginning of this article. Parag Agrawal was born on May 21, 1984 in Ajmer, India. He was recently named CEO of Twitter in November 2021. He’s actually new to Twitter, about 6 years old. Jack Dorsey named Parag Agrawal as his successor.
Well, in addition to the above 6 names of people from India, there are a number of other names from India who hold the highest positions in world class corporations, but in the banking and other business worlds. Like Anshuman Jain, CEO of Deuthce Bank, there is Ajay Banga who is CEO of MasterCard. Wow, cool, Indian.
Author: Mukhtar Amin
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