From Sundar Pichai to Laxman Narasimhan of Starbucks, 35 Indian-origin CEOs manage global businesses worth $1 trillion.
The combined trailing 12 months revenues of 35 companies managed by Indian CEOs stood at $1.08 trillion at the end of December 2022.
While the search engine giant Google accounts for more than a quarter of the aggregate revenue, Microsoft contributed another 19% to the total sales.
Alphabet, the multinational parent of Google, reported a revenue of $282.84 billion in 2022, the highest among the 35 companies managed by Indian origins.
While Google top the list of revenues, Microsoft made it to the top in market capitalisation and net profit.
Starbucks recently announced onboarding Laxman Narasimhan as CEO of the company, nearly two weeks earlier than expected.
With Vimal Kapur set to succeed Darius Adamczyk as CEO of the company, the list of companies controlled by Indian-origin persons has grown to 35.
Apart from Microsoft and Alphabet, other companies that boast of over $100 billion market cap include IBM, Novartis, Honeywell, Starbucks and Adobe.
Heads of these 35 companies together took home $631.3 million as total compensation in 2022.
Rangarajan Raghuram of VMware and Satya Nadella of Microsoft drew the highest pay package of $58.07 million and $54.95 million in 2022.
Vivek Sankaran of Albertsons Companies
Arvind Krishna of IBM
Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron Tech
Shantanu Narayen of Adobe
Surendralal Lal Karsanbhai of Emerson Electric