{"id":23036,"date":"2024-02-01T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/?p=23036"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:30:04","slug":"indians-30-percent-us-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians are the CEOs of 30% of the Fortune 500 listed companies in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/#Indians_influence_in_the_US\" >Indians influence in the U.S.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/#Indians_in_US\" >Indians in US<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/#Inidan_CEO_for_US_listed_companies\" >Inidan CEO for US listed companies<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/#Whats_the_point\" >What&#8217;s the point?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/#Related_articles\" >Related articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Indians_influence_in_the_US\"><\/span><strong>Indians influence in the U.S.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Indians_in_US\"><\/span>Indians in US<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, due to the rise of China&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Inidan_CEO_for_US_listed_companies\"><\/span>Inidan CEO for US listed companies<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the American business community, there are a lot of US-listed companies whose chief executives are of Indian origin, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Satya Nadella of Microsoft (ticker: MSFT)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (ticker:s: GOOGL and GOOG)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shantanu Narayen of Adobe (ticker: ADBE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ajaypal Singh Banga of MasterCard (ticker: MA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arvind Krishna of International Business Machines (ticker: IBM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo (ticker: PEP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rejeev Suri of Nokia (ticker: NOK)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron Technology (ticker: MU)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanjay Jha, former CEO of Motorola (ticker: MSI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dinesh Paliwal of Harman International (ticker: HAR)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parag Agrawal of ex-CEO of Twitter (ticker: TWTR)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks (ticker: PANW)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vasant Narasimhan of SanDisk (ticker: WDC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>George Kurian of Data Storage company NetApp (ticker: NTAP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whats_the_point\"><\/span>What&#8217;s the point?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalleaderstoday.online\/the-rise-of-indian-tech-ceos-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to a report by Gulf Today<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>30% of the Fortune 500 Companies have Indians as their CEOs<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that the first generation of Indians I listed are all born in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a few days I will be writing about the Indian stock market and the emerging technology giants in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/indian-1600x1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"Indian\" class=\"wp-image-23061\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">credit: wiki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_articles\"><\/span>Related articles<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/02\/01\/indians-30-percent-us-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indians are the CEOs of 30% of the Fortune 500 listed companies in the United States<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/03\/14\/chinese-chip-ceo-founder\/\">The famous Chinese founder and CEO of semiconductor companies<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/12\/20\/india-stock-tripled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">India stock tripled in three years to US$3.56 trillion, ranking fourth in the world<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2021\/10\/12\/india-stock-and-tech-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Booming India stock market and the emerging Indian tech giants<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/?s=Indians+do+well+in+the+US%2C+India%E2%80%99s+weak+and+uncompetitive+industries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indians do well in the US, India\u2019s weak and uncompetitive industries<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/04\/07\/how-buffett-decide-on-ceos\/\">How Buffett decide on CEOs?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The content of this site is the author\u2019s personal opinions and is for reference only. I am not responsible for the correctness, opinions, and immediacy of the content and information of the article. 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