Nadella, Pichai, Narasimhan: Indian-origin CEOs at the helm of American cos

With Laxman Narasimhan being appointed as the CEO of Starbucks, a new name has been added to the list of India-origin CEOs of American corporations

Starbucks Corporation, on Thursday, named Laxman Narasimhan as their next chief executive officer (CEO). He was previously the CEO of Reckitt Benckiser.

Here is a look at famous Indian CEOs at the helm of major American companies.

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc

The IIT-Kharagpur graduate replaced Google's co-founder Larry Page to become Google's CEO in 2015. He was made the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in 2020. 

Pichai, born on June 10, 1972, in Chennai, led the product management efforts for developing Google Chrome and Chrome OS. He was also primarily responsible for the development of