Yesterday, Larry Page handed off pretty much all of his CEO responsibilities at Google to Sundar Pichai. With Satya Nadella at the helm of Microsoft, this means that Indians are now running THE two dominant search PPC companies in the world.

This is just amazing.

Sundar Pichai has an amazing track record: Indian Institute of Technology, Stanford, Wharton, several years at McKinsey and now responsible for

  • Google search
  • Google ads
  • Google commerce
  • Google apps
  • Android
  • Google maps
  • Google research
  • Google+
  • Google Chrome
  • Google infrastructure

Respect.

Of course, Pinchai is not the only Indian success story. Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi), Citicorp (Vikram Pandit), Mastercard (Ajay Banga), Unilever (Harish Manwani), Vodafone (Arun Sarin) have all been examples of Indians who have become CEOs — not of Indian companies — but global Fortune 500 companies.

It is hard to believe that just a generation ago, South Asians were nowhere to be found in the executive ranks, and (if I am being completely honest) discriminated against and looked down upon by most business people in America and Europe.

There is an insightful article here http://firstbiz.firstpost.com/corporate/5-reasons-why-indian-ceos-are-making-it-big-on-global-stage-22267.html which is definitely worth a read

5 reasons why Indian CEOs are making it big on global stage

Last August, Time magazine did a cover story on India’s biggest export: it wasn’t about IT, or textiles or even illegally mined iron ore. It was CEOs.

The roll-call of India-minted CEOs (or COOs) is the best for any emerging market: from Vikram Pandit at Citicorp to Anshu Jain at Deutsche Bank to Indra Nooyi at PepsiCo, Ajay Banga at Mastercard and Harish Manwani at Unilever, the management story of the last decade can, arguably, be labelled as the story of the Indian manager breaking through the glass ceiling at global companies. An Indian, Ajit Jain, may yet end up as successor to the legendary investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway. Jain is already CEO of Berkshire’s reinsurance business.

Wrote Time, quoting executive search firm Egon Zehnder: “The data suggest Indians are scaling corporate heights. In a study of S&P 500 companies, Egon Zehnder found more Indian CEOs than any other nationality except American. Indians lead seven companies; Canadians, four. Among the C-s ...

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