Who Lead American IT Companies?

A recent talk with friends and a viral tweet almost 3 years ago invited us to dig a bit on this and investigate to realize the truth.

Several US IT companies, let’s say technology oriented ones, are led by Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Israeli and American of course. And when we say that we wish to insist on the origin of these people validating that America has been a dream for lots of population and continue to be. Lots of them became American but their origin worth spending a minute to realize their trajectory. It confirms that many of them are ambitious and talented, having developed real skills and expertise in the technology aspect but also as business men and it just demonstrates how brilliant they’re. Among them, some arrived to continue their studies at US universities and other came already their professional career started.

It is also just a fact that Silicon Valley and globally US IT power and worldwide influence are the result of Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese and of course American people but this external contribution has been a paramount help. America has represented for multiple decades an eldorado for every people and especially in IT.

Globally, we can list the following US companies led by Indian-origin people, here is a selection to measure the footprint:

• Alphabet / Google – Sundar Pichai
• Google Cloud – Thomas Kurian
• Youtube – Neal Mohan
• Microsoft – Satya Nadella
• IBM – Arvind Krishna
• Adobe – Shantanu Narayen
• Cadence – Anirudh Devgan
• Flex – Revathi Advaithi
• Informatica – Amit Walia (before Salesforce acq.)
• Arista – Jayshree Ullal
• GoDaddy – Aman Bhutani
• Snowflake – Sridhar Ramaswamy
• MongoDB – Dev Ittycheria
• SingleStore – Raj Verma
• Hubspot – Yamini Rangan
• Palo Alto Networks – Nikesh Arora
• Zscaler – Jay Chaudhry
• Micron – Sanjay Mehrotra
• Microchip – Steve Sanghi
• NetApp – George Kurian
• Hitachi Vantara – Sheila Rohra
• VMware – Raghu Raghuram (before Broadcom acq.)
• Nutanix – Rajiv Ramaswami
• Veeam – Anand Eswaran
• Rubrik – Bipul Sinha
• Cohesity – Sanjay Poonen
• Commvault – Sanjay Mirchandani
• MinIO – Anand Babu Periasamy
• Druva – Jaspreet Singh
• Egnyte – Vineet Jain
• Data Dynamics – Piyush Mehta
• Komprise – Kumar Goswami
• Lucidity – Nitin Bhadauria and Vatsal Rastogi
• Clumio – Poojan Kumar (before Commvault acq.)

Others by Chinese, Taiwanese, Malaysian or Singapore-origin people:

• NVIDIA – Jensen Huang (Taiwan)
• Broadcom – Hock Tan (China born Malaysian)
• AMD – Lisa Su (Taiwan)
• Intel – Lip-Bu Tan (Malaysia)
• Supermicro – Charles Liang (Taiwan)
• Western Digital – Irving Tan (Singapore)
• Scale AI – Alexandr Wang (China)
• Fortinet – Ken Xie (China)
• Zoom – Eric Yuan (China)
• Graid Technology – Leander Yu (Taiwan)
• Cloudian – Michael Tso (China)

Some by Israeli:

• Oracle – Safra Catz (following Larry Ellison, american)
• VAST Data – Renen Hallak
• WEKA – Liran Zvibel
• Zadara – Yoram Novick

By American:

• Meta – Mark Zuckerberg
• Amazon – Andy Jassy
• AWS – Matt Garman
• Apple – Tim Cook
• Dell – Michael Dell
• Cisco – Chuck Robbins
• Oracle – Larry Ellison (for many years)
• Salesforce – Marc Benioff
• Seagate – Dave Mosley
• Sandisk – David Goeckeler
• Open AI – Sam Altman
• Autodesk – Andrew Anagnost
• ServiceNow – Bill McDermott
• Workday – Carl Eschenbach
• Pure Storage – Charles Giancarlo
• Tibco Citrix – Tom Krause
• Okta – Todd McKinnon
• Crowdstrike – George Kurtz
• Box – Aaron Levie
• Dropbox – Drew Houston
• Cloudera – Charles Sansbury
• Infinidat – Phil Bullinger (pending acq. by Lenovo)
• Qumulo – Douglas Gourlay
• Quest Software – Tim Page
• Spectra Logic – Nathan Thompson
• ExaGrid – Bill Andrews
• Wasabi – David Friend
• Hammerspace – David Flynn
• iXsystems – Michael Lauth
• Panzura – Dan Waldschmidt
• DataCore – Dave Zabrowski
• Congruity360 – Brian Davidson
• Vdura – Ken Claffey
• Versity – Bruce Gilpin

And even others:

• HPE – Antonio Neri (Argentin and Italy)
• Uber – Dara Khosrowshahi (Iran)
• Anthropic – Dario Amodei (Italy)
• xAI – Elon Musk (South Africa)
• X / Twitter – Elon Musk (South Africa)
• SpaceX – Elon Musk (South Africa)
• Databricks – Ali Ghodsi (Iran and Swedish)
• Synopsis – Sassine Ghazi (Libanon)
• Intuit – Sasan Goodarzi (Iran)
• BMC – Ayman Sayed (Egypt)
• DDN – Alex Bouzari (Iran)
• Quantum – Hugues Meyrath (Luxembourg)
• HYCU – Simon Taylor (UK)

We let you filter this list by any dimension like sector, subgeos… we hope to not have made any mistake on names or origin, if yes, it was not intentional.