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RE: Google CEO is an Indian probably came with H1-B visa.

I asked ChatGPT about Indian CEO’s of American companies. Here we are:

Some prominent Indian‑origin CEOs:

Sundar Pichai – CEO, Alphabet & Google.

Satya Nadella – CEO, Microsoft.

Shantanu Narayen – CEO, Adobe.

Arvind Krishna – CEO, IBM.

Sanjay Mehrotra – CEO, Micron Technology.

Nikesh Arora – CEO, Palo Alto Networks.

Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan – CEO, Novartis.

George Kurian – CEO, NetApp.

Jayshree Ullal – CEO, Arista Networks.

Raj Subramaniam – CEO, FedEx.

Leena Nair – CEO, Chanel.

Shailesh Jejurikar – announced CEO, Procter & Gamble (from 2026).

PepsiCo did have a very prominent Indian‑origin CEO: Indra Nooyi, she eventually retired and was replaced by .... amon Laguarta, a Spanish businessman, so the company is no longer led by an Indian‑origin chief executive.

These are only a selection; current estimates suggest dozens of Indian‑origin CEOs across the Fortune 500 and other global blue‑chips.

I was curious about Sandar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet and Google. So I summarized his history at Google from his Wikipedia page:

Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for Google Chrome, ChromeOS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.

He went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.

In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products he oversaw.

In 2015, Google CEO Larry Page selected Pichai to become the next CEO of Google after previously appointing him Product Chief.

Whew! Talk about being in the hot seat for a decade! He led much of Google's key technological programs for 11 years. By 2015, gaining the title of CEO was more or less a formality.