5 Biggest Companies with Indian CEOs

2. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Total revenue in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 125

CEO of the company: Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella is the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world, and by far one of the most recognizable in Microsoft. If you’re reading this on a laptop, the overwhelming odds suggest that you are reading this on Windows by Microsoft. Satya Nadella was born in Hyderabad in India, and did his bachelors from the country before moving to the US in 1988 to study for an M.S. He then received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1996. Joining Microsoft in 1992, Nadella was involved in many major projects, especially concerning the cloud business of the company, before becoming the president of the company’s Server and Tools business, before becoming the CEO of the company in 1994. He is the third CEO of the company, and oversaw one of the biggest acquisitions made by the company when it purchased LinkedIn for over $26 billion. From the time he became the CEO to 2018, the stock of the company tripled in value as Microsoft saw a 27% annual growth rate, which is huge for a major already established company.

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