Indian-origin CEOs leading world’s top companies: Check new names added in 2022Himanshi Singh
Dec 25, 2022Indian-origin leading top firms
Over the past few years, there has been a growing prominence of the Indian diaspora across the Western world. Several Indian-origin people are now leading some of the world’s top companies.Credit: BCCL
The rise of India-born executives
Dozens of India-born executives have made it big such that they have landed top jobs for themselves and the trend has been evident for some time.Credit: BCCL
Indians leading many Fortune 500 companies
Major US-based multinational corporations including Microsoft, Alphabet, Adobe are amongst those run by people of Indian descent. As many as 58 Fortune 500 companies are currently run by Indian-origin CEOs.Credit: BCCL
Indian-origin people made CEOs in 2022
While the list already includes names like Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, Arvind Krishna among others, 2022 saw a few more names added to the list.Credit: BCCL
Leena Nair
In January this year, Maharashtra's Kolhapur-born Leena Nair became the CEO of the French luxury fashion house Chanel. She became the second Indian-origin woman to lead a global company after Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo.Credit: BCCL
Laxman Narasimhan
World’s largest coffee chain Starbucks in September named Indian-origin Laxman Narasimhan as its next CEO. The PepsiCo veteran has held various leadership roles at the company, including being its global chief commercial officer.Credit: BCCL
Devika Bulchandani
Few days after Starbucks’ announcement, advertising, marketing and public relations giant Ogilvy announced the appointment of Amritsar-born Bulchandani as its Global CEO. Devika most recently served as Global President and CEO of Ogilvy North America.Credit: BCCL
No longer CEOs!
While a few names were added to the list of Indian-origin CEOs leading world’s top companies, a few were deducted too.Credit: BCCL
Parag Agrawal
Indian-origin techie Parag Agrawal, who became the chief executive of Twitter in November last year, war fired by new owner of the microblogging site Elon Musk in October. Born in Maharashtra, Agrawal was previously the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the social media firm.Credit: BCCL
Sonia Syngal
Indian-origin CEO of Gap Inc Sonia Syngal stepped down from her role in July. Syngal had become the company's CEO in March 2020.Credit: BCCL
Indian-origin business leaders heading top companies
The list includes Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Adobe's Shantanu Narayen, IBM's Arvind Krishna, Arista Networks' Jayshree Ullal, Only Fans' Amrapali Gan, Mastercard's Ajaypal Singh Banga.Credit: BCCL