Aneela Nike Post: Indians at top in the Corporate World

Indians managers are in demand. They are sought after in the corporate world for their managerial talent, administration skills and inspiring leadership qualities. No doubt you find many young Indians heading the multi-national companies, the world over. They also seem to have a Midas touch to change the fortune of the companies for the better…..

Punit Renjen

The Indian managers are in demand worldwide for their world-class skills. Recently Punit Renjen has been named the next CEO of US-based accounting giant Deloitte’s global operations, the first Indian-origin person to head a Big-Fours’ audit firm.

Another Indian manger has made it to the top league of global CEOs. Indian managerial talent is world-class. They are also recognized for their abilities to turn around companies facing hard times. Other Indians in charge of top corporate houses are –

Indra Nooyi

Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Indra Nooyi of PesiCo, Anshu Jain of Deutshe Bank, Ivan Menezes of Diageo, Rakesh Kapoor of Reckitt Benckiser, Rajeev Suri of Nokia, Ajit Jain of Berkshire Hathway Group, Ajay Banga of Mastercard, Piyush Gupta of DBS Group Holdings, Sanjay Mehrotra of Scan Disk, Sanjay Jha of Global Foundries, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, Dinesh Paliwal of Harman International and Rajeev Vasudeva of Egon Zehuder and Nitin Noria of Harvad Business School.

Anand Mahindra, CMD, M&M rightly states – Punit’s appointment is further validation of something we already knew: Indian managerial talent is world-class. Now the task ahead of us is to make our home turf an attractive enough playing field for this world class talent.

Rajeev Suri

RPG Enterprise chairman Harish Goenka said – It is another acknowledgement that in the flat world that global business inhabits today, an able leader has to be an architect of change who can strategically leverage assets and resources. His or her nationality is becoming more of a footnote in the process, the emphasis is on caliber.

The growing list of Indian CEOs and managers are attracting attention world-wide and the young, educated, talented and experienced candidates are being invited by top corporate to head the organizations, to take them to greater heights or turn them around from below par to top companies to compete with others.They are sought after in the corporate world for their managerial talent, administration skills and inspiring leadership qualities. No doubt you find many young Indians heading the multi-national companies, the world over. They also seem to have a Midas touch to change the fortune of the companies for the better.

The Obama administration, recently, named PIO Dhanurjay Patil as its first chief data scientist and deputy chief technology officer for data policy. The appointment marked yet another top sci-tech job in the US government that has gone to a person of Indian origin. Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra as the US government's first chief technology officer in 2009, when he also named Vivek Kundra as the chief information officer. Another IndianAmerican, Arati Prabhakar is the director of Darpa. Purenendu Dasgupta, a Jenkins Garrett professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded the prestigious award, 2015 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry J Calvin Giddings Award for his special contribution in the field of chemistry.

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