50 Most Influential Indian Americans
Renu Khator
Renu Khator is the Chancellor and President of University of Houston, who holds the prestige of being the first foreign-born President of the University. She is also the first Indian-origin woman heading a prominent research university in U.S.
Shantanu Narayan
Shantanu Narayan is the President and CEO of Adobe, one of the largest and well-renowned software companies of the world. He joined the firm in the year 1998 as a senior Vice President and took charge of the current position in the year 2005.
Manan Trivedi
Manan Trivedi was the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district in the year 2010 congressional election and is a nominee again in 201. Earlier, he has won democratic primary for congress in eastern Pennsylvania.
Apart from being a promising personality in the field of politics, Trivedi is a physician who served as a battalion surgeon with the US Marine Corps in the Iraq war. Previously, before contesting for the Congress, he also worked as a health care advisor to the Obama for America campaign,
Bharat Desai
Bharat Desai is the co-founder and Chairman of Syntel, an outsourcing company headquartered in Michigan.
Desai founded Syntel in 1980 and in the year 1997, the company went public, which presently has around 17,600 employees and annual revenues more than $532 million.
Bibhu Mohapatra
Bibhu Mohapatra is a New York settled Indian fashion designer who has won the hearts of thousands of fashion lovers with his simple and classic designs which reaches out to a large audience. There are numerous Hollywood style icons such as Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchet and Sienna Miller who have experienced the trendy and stylish sense of this Orissa-born guy and according to Glenn Close, Bibhu is someone who is "really talented".