RESOURCE: Tracking South Asian Heads of U.S. Companies

Tracking South Asian Heads of U.S. Companies
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South Asian CEOs in MAJOR US companies ("major" of course, is subjective; $500 million-plus companies and/or brands that are widely known, perhaps? Please help us add more here):

CURRENT AMERICAN CEOs & Presidents

• Ramani Ayer, chairman and CEO, Hartford Financial Group, a $27-billion financial services company
• Raj Gupta, chairman and CEO, Rohm & Haas, an $8-billion specialty materials company
• Vinod Gupta, CEO of InfoUSA, a $400 million company (formerly known as American Business Information)
• Farooq Kathwari, CEO, Ethan Allen - leading furniture maker, with sales of $1 billion, 310 stores and 21 manufacturing plants.
• Indra Nooyi, CEO, PepsiCo - $33 billion in sales (Aug. 2006)
• Vikram Pandit, CEO, Citigroup - world's largest financial services company (Dec. 2007)
• Deven Sharma, president, Standard & Poor's (Aug. 2007)

FORMER CEOs

• Rono Dutta, former president, United Airlines
• Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO, USAirways
• Rajat Gupta, former managing partner, McKinsey & Co. (1994-2004)
• Umang Gupta, former CEO of Gupta Corporation, a database company he took public in 1993; now chairman of Keynote Systems
• Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates and co-owner of New York Islanders hockey team (2000-2004)
• Bhaskar Menon, former chairman and CEO of EMI International, one of the Big Four record labels; artists include the Beatles, Deep Purple, Cliff Richard, Duran Duran, Beastie Boys, Norah Jones, etc. (appointed 1978; retired several years ago; now a consultant to the industry)
• Meeta Vyas, former CEO, Signature Brands - Betty Crocker, Cake Mate, etc (first South Asian woman to become CEO of publicly traded company; first South Asian to  head a $1B business)
• Jim Wadia, former CEO, Arthur Andersen (which spun off Accenture in 2000)

LARGE-FIRM CEOs OUTSIDE SOUTH ASIA

• Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal, world's largest steel company (market cap: $106 billion)
• Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone, one of world's largest telecom companies, from (market cap: $120 billion)

Who else? If you have updates, please e-mail saja@columbia.edu or post your comments below.