10 Most Powerful Indians in U.S. Tech Firms
#6: Padmshree Warrior, Cisco, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer: Born to Telegu parents, she was born and brought up in the city of Vijayvada, AP, India. She has Bachelors degree in Chemical engineering from IIT Delhi, and holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. She served as an executive vice president and CTO at Motorola, and under her leadership, it was awarded the National Medal of Technology. Padmshree is responsible for aligning technology development and corporate strategy to help Cisco shape and lead major market transitions. She helps direct technology and operational innovation across the company and look over the strategic partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, the integration of new business models, the incubation of new technologies and the cultivation of world-class technical talent.
#7: Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare, Founder and CEO: Rashmi was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, and went on to do her BA and MA in Psychology from Allahabad University, India and also holds a PhD from Brown University in Cognitive neuropsychology. Rashmi focuses on product strategy and design of SlideShare.
Before SlideShare, Rashmi co-founded user experience consulting company Uzanto, and built MindCanvas, game-like software. She founded SlideShare in 2006, which is renowned as a platform that lets the users upload and share their work and presentations with the whole world through a common platform. SlideShare is among the top 120 most-visited websites in the world. And it was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012.
#8: Chet Khanojia, Aereo, Founder and CEO: Khanojia earned his bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, and went on to get a Master's degree in Computer systems engineering from Northeastern University, Boston. He abandoned his PhD program to join a small product development firm in Massachusetts and later founded his first company, Navic Networks in 2000. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. He later founded Aereo Incorporation, where he is serving as the CEO.
Aereo is an online TV platform backed by a group of premiere investors and powered by stellar engineering team. The Company has raised about $97 billion of revenues within a very short time.
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