Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s new CEO; Here are the list of all Indians in foreign MNCs
Microsoft had only three CEO’s since it was founded in 1975 – Bill Gates (Founder), Steve Ballmer and the new CEO – Satya Nadella, an Indian. He was in charge of the Cloud and Enterprise division in Microsoft. Has a Master degree in Computer Science and Business Administration and has a high technical background in the company.
The board of directors also gets a new person which is the same as the CEO list- Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and our new CEO. Analysts say that he is one of the safe picks as the new CEO and will surely help the company to become the top again in the tech sphere. Following this news, Nokia is also likely to pick Rajeev Suri as its next CEO. This is due to the Microsoft acquisition of Nokia which is to be finalized and come into effect by the end of March. The estimates of the deal is around 8 million Euros. Here is a Letter to the Employees by Nadella. The Letter is surely long, but covers all personal details and what he is going to do in the company.
His presence is surely being felt as two top executives resigned the company – Tony Bates and Tami Reller. Tony Bates was the former CEO of Skype and the Executive VP of business development. Bates lead to the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft in 2011. He was to be given the CEO position and was shortlisted as a candidate but the position ultimately went to Mr. Nadella. Chris Caposella will be taking the position of Tami Reller as he was also a potential candidate.
It’s not the first time, an Indian is appointed as CEO of a major firm. The list of all top official Indians in MNCs are as follows.
Indira Nooyi
Was appointed as CEO to succeed Steve Reinemund in October 1, 2006 for PepsiCo Ltd., a manufacturer of food and beverage headquartered in the United States.
Rakesh Khurana
He is an Indian-American professor who is now the Head of Harvard College making him an Indian in the top position in the academic field.
Rakesh Kapoor
He was appointed as CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc. He took over from Bart Becht who held the position for 16 years on September 1, 2011
Anshu Jain
He is the CEO of the German Deutsche Bank.
India is a country full of talent and Indian People are the most talented. We don’t have a great system of, be it, education or politics to realize this. When any new invention comes by, we tend to criticize it more than give it a positive view. This leads to more people going abroad to realize their possibilities and work over there which helps in increasing that country’s value thereby reducing our country’s value as well. To all you people, I ask you one thing. Make India Proud by giving your contribution here and not elsewhere.