Analysis

India’s Silicon Valley CEO presence is expanding beyond Nadella and Pichai

There is more space at the top for India-born tech talent in Silicon Valley

Published: June 09, 2021 13:43 Nivetha Dayanand, Web Editor with inputs from IANS

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The latest to join the club is Rajesh Nambiar at Cognizant. He is currently Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant’s India operations. Nambiar developed and led Operation C3 (Cognizant Combats COVID-19) and brings deep knowledge of applications, data, AI, analytics, infrastructure, cloud, and consulting to his new role that began from June 4. Image Credit: Cognizant

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Arvind Krishna is CEO of the world's oldest technology company IBM. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, Krishna replaced Virginia Rometty at Big Blue. Image Credit: IBM

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Last month, enterprise software major VMware appointed Raghu Raghuram as CEO and member of the Board of Directors, which became effective from June 1. Image Credit: VMware

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VMware also appointed Sumit Dhawan as President, who will lead all go-to-market functions including sales, worldwide partner and commercial organisation, customer experience and success (CXS), marketing, and communications. Image Credit: VMware

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Another recent name is Indian-American Thomas Kurian, former Oracle President of product development and respected technologist, who is now leading Google Cloud. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Google Cloud in February this year announced that Bikram Singh Bedi, who set up the Amazon Web Services (AWS) operations in India, will succeed Karan Bajwa as the new Managing Director for India. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Karan Bajwa has been elevated to be the leader for Asia-Pacific operations, and is leading all go-to-market operations, including on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Workspace. Google Cloud is on track to launch its Delhi cloud region in India this year - it's second after Mumbai, which launched in 2017. Image Credit: Source: Twitter@KaranBajwa_IN

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