Rajesh Nambiar, Executive VP & President, Cognizant India
It is time to move over for Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai or Adobe’s Shantanu Narayan as new faces have joined the high-profile league of Indian-led businesses, calling the shots in the Silicon Valley and leading the global digital transformation wave.
The latest to join the elite tech CEOs’ club is Rajesh Nambiar, currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India, who has replaced Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice President and President, Digital Business and Technology at the IT major. Nambiar, who developed and led Operation C3 (Cognizant Combats COVID-19), brings deep knowledge of applications, data, AI, analytics, infrastructure, cloud, and consulting to his new role that began from June 4.
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​Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM
Arvind Krishna is the newly appointed CEO of the world’s oldest technology company IBM. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Krishna replaced Virginia Rometty as the CEO of the IBM Group.
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​Raghu Raghuram, CEO, VMware
Last month, enterprise software major VMware announced to appoint Raghu Raghuram as its new Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective from June 1.
“I am thrilled to have Raghuram step into the role of CEO at VMware. Throughout his career, he has led with integrity and conviction, playing an instrumental role in the success of VMware,” said Michael Dell, chairman of the VMware Board of Directors.
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​Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud India
Another recent name is Indian-American Thomas Kurian, former Oracle President of product development and a respected technologist, who is now leading Google Cloud.
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​Bikram Singh Bedi, MD, Google Cloud India
Google Cloud in February this year announced that Bikram Singh Bedi, who set up the Amazon Web Services operations in India, will succeed Karan Bajwa as its new Managing Director for India. Bajwa has already been elevated to become the new leader for Asia Pacific and is leading all regional revenue and go-to-market operations for Google Cloud, including on Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace.
