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Top Five Indian who Got the recognition through out the World

Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi, Hewlett-Packard

After joining HP way back in 1980 as a research and development engineer,


Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi has held various leadership positions within the
company. Currently, Joshi is serving as the Executive Vice President of the
Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) at HP. IPG is a $24 billion annual revenue
business that encompasses the consumer, enterprise, small-to-medium
business and graphics customer segments. In the last eight years under VJ's
leadership, IPG has grown revenue from $19 billion to $24 billion and
doubled its operating profit to more than $4 billion. VJ joined HP in 1980 as
a research and development engineer and has held various leadership
positions. VJ has been a member of the Yahoo! board of directors as well
since 2005. 
Vishal Sikka, SAP

A doctorate degree holder in computer science from Stanford University in


California, Vishal Sikka started his SAP journey as the chief software
architect, being responsible for the technology and architecture road map
and the advanced technology group. It was in April 2007 when Sikka was
appointed the first CTO of SAP. He has been a member of the Executive
Board leading the Technology and Innovation Platform area since February
last year and is looking after the SAP technology platform and tools to
design and deliver the SAP technology portfolio, including SAP NetWeaver
and SAP BusinessObjects technologies. Vishal also oversees key technology
partnerships and customer co-innovation, and is an executive sponsor of the
SAP Labs network. Before his SAP career, Sikka was the Area Vice President
for platform technologies at Peregrine Systems
Satya Nadella, Microsoft

It was 1992, when Satya Nadella joined Microsoft. Being the President of the
Servers and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft, Nadella handles the overall business
and technical vision, strategy, operations, engineering and marketing for Microsoft's
$15 billion business. Nadella and his team are responsible for leading Microsoft's
enterprise transformation into the cloud and providing the technology roadmap and
vision for the future of business computing. Prior to this position, Nadella was the
Senior Vice President of R&D for the Online Services Division, which includes the
Search (Bing), Portal (MSN) and Advertising platforms. A native of Hyderabad,
Nadella also held Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and spent several years
leading engineering efforts in Microsoft's Server group. Before joining Microsoft,
Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems. 
Arvind Sodhani, Intel

Arvind Sodhani was the assistant treasurer of Intel Europe when he joined the
company in 1981 and in 1984 he was promoted to the assistant treasurer position
of the corporation. Sodhani was elected Vice President by the board of directors in
May 1990, served as Senior Vice President from 2005 to 2007 and was promoted to
Executive Vice President in December 2007. It was in March 2005, when Sodhani
became the President of Intel Capital. Currently serving on the board of directors
for SMART Technologies, Sodhani also served as a member of the NASDAQ Stock
Market board of directors from 1997 – 2007
Nikesh Arora, Google

Nikesh's Google journey started in 2004 and since then he has held several
positions with the company. Currently, Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer
operations, as well as marketing and partnerships of Google. Recently, Nikesh
Google's global direct sales operations as well. He is responsible for developing and
managing the company's operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African
markets. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh was the Chief Marketing Officer and a
member of the management board at T-Mobile. He also worked with Deutsche
Telekom, Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in Boston. 

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