50 Most Influential Indian Americans

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 14 September 2012, 23:49 IST   |    3 Comments
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Soumitra Dutta

Soumitra Dutta is the dean of the Samuel Curtis Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He earlier served as the Professor of Business and Technology at INSEAD and Chaired Professor of Business and Technology at Roland Berger. Dutta engages in developing strategies in innovation and technology, at both national and organizational levels.  His area of interest is working with lab projects in the field of IT.

Romesh Wadhwani

Romesh Wadhwani is the founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group, a Silicon Valley-based private equity firm .According to a survey by Forbes, he is the richest Indian American, with a net worth of 2 billion dollars.

Wadhwani, who is the founder of Symphony Technology Group, has been successful in raising the revenue of the company to $2.5 billion.

Ajit Jain

Ajit is the leader of the multi-billion dollar Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group, who is supposed to be one of the possible successor to Buffett. He has been a part of this group since the year 1986 and according to Buffet, Jain is irreplaceable, ‘’he is needed, and we won't find a substitute for him."This successful leader has made a big name for himself in the world of investment with his hard work and determination.

Bobby Gosh

Bobby Gosh was recently named as 'Editor-at-Large' by times Magazine and he holds the privilege of being the first non-American to be named World Editor in TIME's.

Bobby was the bureau chief of TIME in Baghdad earlier, who happens to be one of the longest-serving correspondents in Iraq and his profiles on suicide bombers, terrorists, extraordinary Iraqis and other political figures during the time of Baghdad journalism brought out the true journalist in him.

Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla is a business enterprise entrepreneur and influential personality in Silicon Valley who was recently included in the Forbes’ list of Indian-American Billionaires, with a net worth $1.3 billion. He is one among the co-founders of Sun Microsystems who worked as its first CEO and Chairman and later on got into a venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a general partner. He came up with his own firm Khosla Ventures in the year 2004 and is currently heading it. Forbes also regards him as the rare Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has the potential to produce profits from a clean tech portfolio.