50 Most Influential Indian Americans
Nikesh Arora
Nikesh is the Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google, who is the second most paid employee of the firm. Recently, he was in news for taking an amount of $4.7 million (‘Cancelled Awards’ payment), plus a bonus of $3.3 million, instead of the stock.
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari, an Indian-origin American writer and stand-up comedian has huge fan following him, which goes up to more than 1.7 million on Twitter. Ansari, who holds a graduation in marketing from Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NewYork University, started his career performing stand-up comedy. He got a place in the "Hot List" of Rolling Stone in the year 2005 and was also honoured with the Jury Award for "Best Standup" at HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in the year 2006.
Rachel Roy
Rachel Roy is an Indian-American fashion designer of Bengali and Dutch descent who started her fashion career when she was just 14.She is more popular to the fashion world as the ‘person who dresses Mrs. Obama’ and her list of clients includes many other prominent names such as Diane Sawyer, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Garner, Iman, Lucy Liu, Sharon Stone, Wendy Williams (media personality) and Penelope Cruz.
Rachel began her career with ‘Contempo Casuals’, a clothing outlet and later on she worked as a stylist for magazines and music videos.
Amit Singhal
Singhal is a top ranking software engineer in Google who was honoured with the title ‘Google Fellow’ (a title meant for most talented engineers) for his work on Google’s Algorithm.
Singhal joined Google in the year 2000 after leaving his post as a researcher at AT&T Labs (the former Bell Labs).He leads the core ranking team of Google and works to better up the accuracy, speed, and thoroughness of Google search.
Rakesh Sachdev
Rakesh Sachdev is the former president and CEO of Sigma-Aldrich Corp, a life science and high technology company with its headquarters in Missouri.