Top 10 Indian CEOs with MBA Degrees

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet -  Sunder Pichai’s career began at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in engineering and product management. In 2016, he was appointed as the CEO of Google, and in the next 4 years, he became the CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Born in Tamil Nadu, India, he studied material sciences and engineering at Stanford and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania after completing his graduation.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft - Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s CEO at the moment. Prior to this, he served as Microsoft’s Executive Vice President for Cloud and Enterprise. Nadella moved to the USA in 1990 to study computer science after earning his Bachelor’s. In 1997, he graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA. In order to pursue his MBA dream, he traveled to Chicago every weekend for two years.

 Parag Agrawal – CEO, Twitter  The most recent Twitter CEO attended Stanford University to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science after receiving his BTech from IIT-Bombay. In 2001, Parag graduated from the Atomic Energy Central School.

Leena Nair, Chanel -  Leena Nair CEO of the Chanel group. In 2021 she is on Fortune India’s Most Powerful Women list. In 2020 Economic times recognized her as Global Indian of the year in the Prime Women Leadership Awards. Leena Nair was also declared Role model of the year by the renowned Great British Businesswoman Awards 2021. Before joining the Chanel group she was working with Unilever as Chief Human Resource Officer. Leena Nair obtained her MBA degree from the XLRI and she was also the gold medalist. 

Shantanu Narayen, Adobe Inc -  Shantanu Narayen took over as CEO of Adobe in 2007 and completely changed the course of the business. Adobe has become the first company to ever make the Fortune 400 list after surpassing the market valuation of $100 billion. Forbs ranked Adobe as the 13th most innovative company in 2018. Additionally, Shantanu served on the Management Advisory Board, which was established by former US President Barack Obama. He also holds the distinction of having received

 Anshu Jain, President of Cantor Fitzgerald  In 1983, Jain graduated from the Shri Ram College of Commerce at the University of Delhi with a BA in economics. He then earned his MBA degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management in 1985.

Ratan Tata, Former Chairman   Tata Sons - Ratan Tata is well-known throughout the nation and beyond the horizons for his business endeavors and all the high seas he has navigated. He is the former chairman of Tata Sons and an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, investor, and great-grandson of Jamsetji Tata. He completed his high school education at Riverdale Country School in New York City and graduated with a degree in architecture from Cornell University.

 Ajaypal Singh Banga-CEO, Mastercard  Ajaypal Singh Banga obtained both a PGP in Management (equivalent to an MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Economics from Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College.

Jayshree Ullal, Arista Networks  Ullal earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from San Francisco State University (electrical). She continued her studies at Santa Clara University, where she graduated with a Master’s in Engineering management.

Anand Mahindra Anand Mahindra is the chairman of the 21 billion Mahindra and Mahindra conglomerate and a third-generation descendant of the Mahindra family. He is responsible for the Mahindra Group’s expansion into new industries such as hospitality and real estate. The Mahindra Group now operates in 20 different industries, from the automotive to the IT sectors. But before going to Harvard for an MBA, he first studied film and architecture.

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