From Apple to Tesla: Indian-origin leaders in top management positions at global companies

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Kevan Parekh: Apple’s Indian-born vice president takes over as CFO from company veteran Luca Maestri, effective January 1, 2025. Parekh has been with Apple for 11 years and three months since working his way up the company’s finance and product marketing team. He is already an instrumental executive who often reports directly to Cook on important financial and sales matters, according to Bloomberg.

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Vaibhav Taneja: The Indian-origin CFO of Elon Musk-owned carmaker Tesla has taken over the role in 2023. Taneja is the CFO as well as the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO), a role he was given in March 2019. He has also been the Corporate Controller of Tesla since May 2018. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Corporate Controller from February 2017 to May 2018. He was also appointed as the head of Tesla’s Indian division, Tesla India Motors and Energy Private Limited, in January 2021.

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Dixit Joshi: Credit Suisse appointed Indian-origin Joshi as its new CFO in August 2022. He previously served as Head of Deutsche Bank’s Fixed Income, Exchange-Traded Derivatives and Market Clearing Institutional Clients Group, as well as Head of Global Prime Finance and Head of APAC Equities in Hong Kong.

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Dipak Golechha: Another Indian-origin CFO works at Palo Alto Networks, which was appointed in March 2021. Golechha, a seasoned finance leader, joined Palo Alto Networks in late 2020 as Senior Vice President, Finance. He spent 18 years at Procter & Gamble, where he held roles as Divisional CFO and COO. Golechha also served for four years as CEO of Excelligence Learning Corporation, a private technology-based education company.

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Aparna Bawa: A Harvard graduate, she was named Zoom’s COO in May 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that, she was Zoom’s chief legal officer.

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Amrita Ahuja: Block, the mobile payments company of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, appointed Amrita Ahuja as its CFO in 2018. She joined Square, a payments platform, in 2018 as its CFO and in 2021, Square rebranded to Block and Ahuja also took on the role of COO.

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The list of Indian-origin CEOs at the helm of global companies is even longer, be it at Alphabet, Adobe or IBM. Here are a few names.

Arvind Krishna (IBM) IIT-Kanpur graduate Arvind Krishna will replace Ginni Rometty as the CEO of International Business Machines Corp (IBM), an American multinational information technology company. Krishna, 57, currently heads IBM’s cloud and cognitive software unit. He was the driving force behind the deal with Red Hat, which went through last year. Krishna will take over as the company’s CEO on April 6 this year.

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Arvind Krishna: The Indian-origin tech executive was elected CEO of American IT giant IBM in 2020 after a “world-class succession process”, succeeding Virginia Rometty, who described him as the “right CEO for the next era at IBM” and “well positioned” to lead the company into the cloud and cognitive era.

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc. A graduate of IIT-Kharagpur, Sundar Pichai replaced Google co-founder Larry Page to become Google's CEO in 2015. He became the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in 2020.

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Sundar Pichai: He was named Alphabet’s new CEO in 2019. He took over the role after CEO Larry Page and Chairman Sergey Brin stepped down.

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Satya Nadella: Earlier this year, he marked ten years as Microsoft CEO, capping a decade of astonishing growth by pivoting the slow-moving software giant to focus on cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He is only Microsoft’s third CEO, following Steve Ballmer, who served for 14 years, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company in 1975 and took it public in 1986. (Image: Reuters)

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Shantanu Narayen: Shantanu Narayen has been Adobe’s chief executive since 2007. Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 and previously held senior positions at Apple for six years from 1989 to 1995. (Image: Reuters)

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Leena Nair: Maharashtra-born Leena Nair, a former HR director at Unilever, a major FMCG company, was elected as the global CEO of French fashion house Chanel in 2021.

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