Renowned Indians Heading Global Corporations
DSIJ Intelligence / 07 Feb 2014

Many prominent Indians have made it big in the business world. Be it their prompt thinking or good judgement skills, these wise thinkers have aptly put India on the global map. Even the biggest corporations in the world are willing to place an Indian on their top position, which was not seen previously.
There are many Indians across the globe who are heading some of the biggest global corporations successfully. Here in this article, we are featuring five such Indian who has been heading these global giants.
Let us take a look at them.
| Name | Designation | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Anshuman Jain | Co-CEO | Deutsche Bank |
| Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi | Chairperson & CEO | PepsiCo |
| Satya Narayana Nadella | CEO | Microsoft |
| Shantanu Narayen | CEO | Adobe Systems |
| Ajaypal Singh Banga | President & CEO | MasterCard |
Anshuman Jain: Anshuman Jain is an Indian business executive. He took over as Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank on June 1, 2012 to succeed Management Board Chairman Josef Ackermann. Jain studied economics at University of Delhi's Shri Ram College of Commerce, earning a bachelor's degree with honours in 1983. He also holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi: Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-American business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue. According to Forbes, she is consistently ranked among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2013, she has been ranked 10th in the list of Forbes World's 100 most powerful women. She was educated at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. She received a Bachelor's degree in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from Madras Christian College in 1974 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
Satya Narayana Nadella: Satya Narayana Nadella is the chief executive officer of Microsoft. He was appointed CEO on 4 February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Previously, he was executive vice-president of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms, developer tools and cloud services. Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet before attaining a bachelor of engineering in electronics and communication degree from Manipal Institute of Technology, Mangalore University, Manipal, Karnataka.
Shantanu Narayen: Shantanu Narayen is the CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post, he held the role as the President and Chief Operating Officer since 2005. He went to Hyderabad Public School in Hyderabad. Narayen completed his Bachelor of Science in electronics engineering from Osmania University in India, a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science in computer science from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. On May 7, 2011, Narayen received an honorary Doctor of Applied Science degree from his alma mater, Bowling Green State University.
Ajaypal Singh Banga: Ajaypal Singh Banga is the current president and chief executive officer of MasterCard. MasterCard announced on April 12, 2010 that Ajay Banga, previously MasterCard’s president and chief operating officer to serve as the company’s president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2010. Banga, 50, succeeded Robert W. Selander, who had been MasterCard’s chief executive officer since March 1997. Banga went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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