Indians are known for their global presence in the IT sector. The global IT industry and mobile world has a lot to share when it narrows down to the field of IT contribution. They are in fact everywhere achieving great heights of success in almost every field. Below is the list of the top 7 prominent Indians who has successfully set benchmarks with their innovation in mobile and IT sector. Take a look.
1. Amit Singhal
- Senior Vice President of Search and Google Fellow
Amit Singhal is the famous figure behind ‘Humming Bird’, the new search technology introduced by Google. He invented the technology wherein the meaning of a query can be matched with that of the documents over the internet.
When Amit joined Google in 2000 he has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee. He is one of the principle scientists in the Internet giant who has been contributing to enhance searching experiences.
2. Pranav Mistry
- Head of Think Tank Team and Director of Research, Samsung Research America
Pranav Mistry is behind the awesome idea of Samsung’s smart watch. He joined the Think Tank Team in early 2013. With the smart watch checking e -mails, messages and receiving call is made easier.
Pranav was born in Gujarat. He attained his Master of Design from IIT Bombay and later joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue Master in Media Arts. He got a job offer from Samsung while he was working as a Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab.
3. Prem Watsa
- CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings
Prem Watsa is an NRI from Canada is the man behind the latest acquisition of Blackberry by Fairfax.
After graduating from IIT Chennai in chemical engineering in 1971, he moved to Canada to pursue MBA from University of Ontario. Prem, aged 63 is one among the wealthiest persons in the country today. All set through his hard work.
4. Satya Nadella
- EVP, Cloud and enterprise services at Microsoft
Hyderabad born Nadella did his schooling in Hyderabad Public school and did his B-Tech in electrical engineering in 1988 from Mangalore University. He moved into the U.S. to pursue MBA and to do higher education in computer science. He worked with Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft in 1992.
Nadella was born in Hyderabad with schooling in Hyderabad Public school and his B-Tech in electrical engineering from Mangalore University in the year 1988. After that he moved to US to pursue MBA. He started his work in Sun Microsystems and later shifted to Microsoft in 1992.
5. Vivek Bharadwaj
- Head of software portfolio at BlackBerry
Bharadwaj, the master brain behind Blackberry 10 is a UK born Indian. He has also worked with Siemens Mobile and BenQ Mobile before landing on to Blackberry.
Bhardwaj was seen warning the company’s decision to expand gadgets other than Smartphones, saying “Tablets make no money”. Blackberry was quoted saying that, “we see the next evolution of the phone back into platform distribution. The real game is content and commerce, not hardware.”
6. Suhail Rizvi
- Financer
Suhail an Indian born moved to the U.S. at the age of 5. He started his career as a real estate analyst and founded his own company. However, he later sold it in 1995 and bought Puerto Rico based electronics Company. Today, he is able to hold 15 percent of the share in Twitter and has connections with highly influential people including Queen Noor of Jordan, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.
7. Sundar Pichai
- Google Android chief
Pichai is the inceptor of Google Chrome. He is currently the head of the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Android. He completed his B-Tech from IIT Kharagpur and joined Google in 2004. At present he is in charge of Chrome web browser and operating system for laptops.
Larry page, CEO of Google complemented Sundar in a blogpost saying “Going forward, Sundar Pichai will lead Android, in addition to his existing work with Chrome and Apps. Sundar has a talent for creating products that are technically excellent yet easy to use-and he loves a big bet.”
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