7 Prominent Indians Influencing Global IT


#2 Prem Watsa
CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings    

Prem Watsa tells us the story of an Indian who migrated to Canada to make a living, and finally made up a million dollar empire with hard work. The latest acquisition of Blackberry by Fairfax added another feather to his glorified hat.

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.

#3 Satya Nadella
EVP, Cloud and enterprise services at Microsoft

Satya Nadella is a potential player in Microsoft and is one among the candidates who are considered to replace the present CEO, Steve Ballmer.

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.
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