IIT alumni dominate global Indian tech influencers list

Updated on: Monday, February 20, 2012

The tech journal, Dataquest's list of Top 20 Global Indian technology influencers is dominated by alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).

The list is also dominated by multiple Indians from search giant, Google (Amit Singhal, Google fellow; Nikesh Arora, chief business officer and Sundar Pichai, senior VP, Chrome) and Hewlett Packard (Prith Banerjee, senior VP research and director, HP Labs and Vyomesh Joshi, executive VP, printing imaging). Also in the list are those charged with building the technology roadmaps for the world's top software companies: Vishal Sikka, Chief Technologist of SAP; Thomas Kurian, in charge of the product roadmap of Oracle and Satya Nadella, the president of Microsoft's servers and tools business, and US government's first federal CTO Aneesh Chopra (who stepped down on February 8), McKinsey consultant Dilip Wagle, and blogger Om Malik of GigaOM.

Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco, is the only woman on this list.

Most of those on the list are engineers, with a majority from the IITs (Madras, Kharagpur,Kanpur and Roorkee), and other colleges like IT BHU, MS University, Osmania, and Manipal University.

IBM, which employs more people in India than in the US, does not have any Indian executive in the list.

Top 20 tech influencers list (In alphabetical order):

1 Abhijit Talwalkar, CEO, LSI

2 Amit Singhal, Google fellow, Google

3 Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO,US Government

4 Arvind Sodhani, EVP president, Intel Capital, Intel

5 Dilip Wagle, director, McKinsey Co

6 Nikesh Arora, chief business officer, Google

7 Om Malik, blogger, investor, GigaOM

8 Padmasree Warrior, SVP, Engg CTO, Cisco

9 Prabhakar Raghavan, chief strategy officer, executive vice president Yahoo! Labs

10 Prith Banerjee, SVP, research, and director, HP Labs Hewlett-Packard

11 Sanjay K Jha, chairman CEO. Motorola Mobility

12 Satya Nadella, president, servers tools business, Microsoft

13 Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe

14 Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome Google

15 Thomas Kurian, EVP, product development, Oracle

16 Vinod Khosla, founder, Khosla Ventures

17 Vishal Sikka, CTO member, exec board, SAP

18 Vivek Kundra, EVP, emerging markets, Salesforce.com

19 Vivek Ranadive, CEO, TIBCO

20 Vyomesh Joshi, EVP, printing imaging, Hewlett-Packard

Times of India

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