Indians influence in the U.S.
Indians in US
The current U.S. Vice President Kamala Devi Harris and the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (Nikki Haley) are both well-known Indians in American politics. In the Silicon Valley of the United States, the two largest ethnic groups of engineers for a long time are Chinese and Indians. White Americans are basically not engineers.
The first choice of old American white elites is lawyers and Wall Street, engaged in mergers and acquisitions and management. However, the Indians are compared with the Chinese because the upper-class Indians and the universities use English, which has an advantage over the Chinese in language, and the United States has a tradition of discriminating against the Chinese.
In addition, due to the rise of China’s national power in recent years, the whole country has resisted China; China For a long time (please note that it is a long time, 200 years, not just in recent years), it has been difficult for people to serve as decision-makers in power in American politics or business.
Inidan CEO for US listed companies
In the American business community, there are a lot of US-listed companies whose chief executives are of Indian origin, including:
- Satya Nadella of Microsoft (ticker: MSFT)
- Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (ticker:s: GOOGL and GOOG)
- Shantanu Narayen of Adobe (ticker: ADBE)
- Ajaypal Singh Banga of MasterCard (ticker: MA)
- Arvind Krishna of International Business Machines (ticker: IBM)
- Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo (ticker: PEP)
- Rejeev Suri of Nokia (ticker: NOK)
- Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron Technology (ticker: MU)
- Sanjay Jha, former CEO of Motorola (ticker: MSI)
- Dinesh Paliwal of Harman International (ticker: HAR)
- Parag Agrawal of ex-CEO of Twitter (ticker: TWTR)
- Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks (ticker: PANW)
- Vasant Narasimhan of SanDisk (US stock code: WDC)
- George Kurian of Data Storage company NetApp (US stock code: NTAP)
What’s the point?
These are all super-large companies ranked in the Fortune 500, two of which have a market value of more than trillion US dollars. June 2022, According to a report by Gulf Today, 30% of the Fortune 500 Companies have Indians as their CEOs.
Please note that the first generation of Indians I listed are all born in India.
In a few days I will be writing about the Indian stock market and the emerging technology giants in recent years.
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