Apart from Parag Agrawal, this is a list of CEOs of technology companies from India

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The appointment of Parag Agrawal as CEO of Twitter to replace Jack Dorsey adds to the long list of tech giants with Indian leaders. Apart from Agrawal, other giant US technology companies led by immigrants from India are Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO (Google parent company) Sundar Pihcai, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Of these companies, the total value of the market valuation reaches 5 trillion US dollars. Here is a list of CEOs of Indian tech companies:
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai has been the CEO of Alphabet since December 2019. However, he has held the position of CEO of Google since 2015. Prior to his career at Google, Sundar Pichai served as Senior Vice President (SVP) at Android.
Reporting from Business Insider, Pichai's total wealth value as of December 2020 reached 600 million US dollars, or around Rp. 8.52 trillion. Despite occupying the highest position in one of the most influential companies in the world, Pichai is not the highest paid CEO in the world.
In a Business Insider report mentioned, Pichai feels he has been paid very much by Google. Regarding his educational background, Pichai earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and pursued a master's degree at Stanford University.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft in 2014. Previously, he served as Executive Vice Prisident (EVP) for Microsoft's cloud computing business line. Within a year of him serving as CEO, Microsoft's stock price shot up to 182 percent. Nadella was born in India and came to the United States to continue her studies in computer science at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Subsequently, he studied and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna
Arvind Krishna has served as CEO of IBM since June 2020. Previously, he served as SVP at IBM, where he headed the IBM business unit providing cpuld and data services to enterprise clients. Krishna has been with IBM since 1990. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign.

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 and served as CEO in 2007. Prior to his successful career at Adobe, Narayen was a product developer at Apple. Narayen was born in Hyderabad, India, and came to the United States to pursue a master's degree at Bowling Green State University.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal has joined Twitter since 2011. The value of Parag Agrawal's wealth is estimated at 1.52 million US dollars or around Rp. 21.73 billion. He joined Twitter as a Distinguished Software Engineer, a position he held for six years before he was promoted to the position of CTO in 2017. Prior to Twitter, Agrawal worked for research-based companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AT&T.

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