Leena Nair is a well-known British-American business executive. She is serving as the Global CEO of Chanel. Before that, she served as the Chief Human Resource Officer of Unilever and a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive. She first worked in Jamshedpur and in Kolkata, Ambattur, Tamil Nadu, and Taloja, Maharashtra. In addition, her mentors are Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, and Nigel Higgins, the chairman of Barclays Bank.
Sundar Pichai ( Full Name: Pichai Sundararajan) is a popular Indian-born American business executive who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He started his career as a materials engineer. After a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Sundar joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google’s client software products, such as Google Chrome and ChromeOS, and was largely responsible for Google Drive.
Ajay Banga ( Full Name: Ajaypal Singh Banga) is a prominent Indian-born American business executive. As of now, he works as the president of the World Bank Group. On May 3, 2023, Ajay was elected the president having been nominated to the position in February 2023 by the Biden administration.
Arvind Krishna is a popular Indian-American business executive working as the Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has worked as the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman in January 2021. Arvind started his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and became promoted to Senior Vice President in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. Arvind was the principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the company’s history.
Ned Segal is a is a well-known American business executive. He served as chief financial officer of Twitter from 2017 to 2022. Segal was among the top three executives who were fired on October 27, 2022, following Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. Currently, he works on the Board of Directors of Beyond Meat, a plant-based meat company, where he serves as a member of the Audit Committee.
Leslie Berland is an American marketer who has been a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Peloton since January 2023. Prior to joining Peloton, Leslie worked as a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Twitter from 2021 to November 2022. From 2017 to 2021, Leslie was also Head of People at Twitter. Before that, Leslie spent over a decade in executive roles at AmEx establishing the financial service company’s initial social media strategies.
Vijaya Gadde is a well-known American attorney. She worked as general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter. She handled issues like harassment, misinformation, harmful speech, and other decisions made by Twitter. In addition, she was fired by Elon Musk, following his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022.
Biz Stone (Real Name: Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone) is a popular American entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Twitter, among other technology companies. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries with Ben Finkel. He has published three books, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002), Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004), and Things A Little Bird Told Me (Grand Central, 2014). Biz was also the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Obvious Corporation from 2011 to 2013.
Parag Agrawal is a is a well-known Indian-American software engineer and businessman. He worked as the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022. He was fired as CEO once Elon Musk completed his acquisition of the company. In addition, he worked as a research at AT&T Labs, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Yahoo!
Nikki Krishnamurthy has been an American Chief People Officer, at Uber Technologies Inc. since 2018. Before, Nikki was the Chief People Officer of Expedia Group, Inc., where she was responsible for global Human Resources strategy and planning for the entire employee life-cycle (recruiting, retention, total compensation, etc.), specializing in continually improving the employee experience.
