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Most powerful Indians who head Tech giants!

Sundar Pichai has been roped in to lead Google as Chief Executive Officer but he is not the first one to do so. There have been many Indians abroad who can be given the credit for the success of powerful tech giants. Take a look!

News Nation Bureau | Updated : 11 August 2015, 12:29:26 PM
Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai

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Pichai Sundararajan better known as Sundar Pichai is the new CEO of a 'slimmed-down' Google.
Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella

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Satya Nadella in February became Microsoft's chief executive, replacing Steve Ballmer.
Ajay Bhatt

Ajay Bhatt

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The father of the USB standard, in 2009, Intel proclaimed Bhatt as a rockstar of tech through a TV advert.
Vinod Dham

Vinod Dham

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He is known as father of the famous Intel Pentium processor.
Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla

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In 1982 he co-found Sun Microsystems, later he started his own venture capitalist firm, Khosla Ventures of which ex-UK PM Tony Blair is also a part.
Sabeer Bhatia

Sabeer Bhatia

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Hotmail, was founded by this Indian technology talent. After leaving Microsoft, he founded an e-commerce firm, Arzoo Inc, before starting a free messaging service called JaxtrSMS.
Vic Gundotra

Vic Gundotra

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Google engineer from India, he is known as Google’s social star and the man behind the Google+ social network.
Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal

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Goggle's lesser known talent, he oversees search - something around 1.1 billion people use every month.
Ruchi Sanghvi

Ruchi Sanghvi

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Ruchi Sanghvi became Facebook’s first female engineer, joining the social network in 2005.
Padamshree Warrior

Padamshree Warrior

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Warrior remained chief technology officer at Motorola until 2007, where she left to take over the same role at Cisco Systems, which she holds to this day
Shantanu Narayen

Shantanu Narayen

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He currently serves as Adobe Systems chief executive.
Om Malik

Om Malik

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He is one of the forefathers of professional technology news blogging.

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