In PICS | Indian-Origin CEOs: Neal Mohan, New Chief Of YouTube, Joins The Likes Of Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella

A Stanford graduate, Neal Mohan was appointed chief product officer at YouTube in 2015. He joined Google in 2008 when the company acquired DoubleClick. He had worked in DoubleClick for 6 years. At Google, Neal was senior vice president of display and video advertising for about 8 years. [Image Credit: Getty]

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet Inc. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Pichai hails from Madurai. He began working for Google in 2004 and was promoted as CEO in 2015. In December 2019, he was finally named CEO of Alphabet Inc, the parent organisation of Google. [Image Credit: Getty]

Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. Hyderabad-born Nadella became the CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. Nadella has a BE from the Manipal Institute of Technology, MS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. [Image Credit: Getty]

Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM. Krishna, an alumnus of the IIT, Kanpur, has worked for IBM for more than 20 years. In January 2020, he took over as CEO of the IBM Group. [Image Credit: Getty]

Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe Inc. Hyderabad-born Narayen began his professional life at Apple before switching to Adobe in 1998. At the age of 45, he was elevated to CEO in December 2007. [Image Credit: Getty]

Rajeev Suri, CEO, Nokia Inc. Born in New Delhi, Suri, was named CEO of Nokia Corp in April 2014. He stepped down as CEO in 2020 to make room for Pekka Lundmark, who joined Inmarsat as CEO on March 1, 2021. [Image Credit: Getty]

Parag Agrawal, CEO, Twitter. In November 2021, IIT-Bombay graduate Agrawal was named the company's CEO following the resignation of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Later, he resigned following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. [Image Credit: Getty]

Ajaypal Singh Banga, CEO, Mastercard. In 1981, Banga started his career with Nestlé and in the 1990s he joined Mastercard. He assumed his position as Mastercard's president and CEO in July 2010 and held it till December 31, 2020. [Image Credit: Getty]