By:
Pramod Thomas
FOUR Indian-People have been named to the Forbes’ listing of America’s most profitable businesswomen in 2023.
Jayshree Ullal, Neerja Sethi, Neha Narkhede, and Indra Nooyi are the 4 girls amongst 100 featured on the listing, in line with Forbes India.
Silicon Valley engineer and Cisco veteran, Jayshree Ullal, tops the listing of Indian-People as she is ranked 15 with an estimated wealth of $2.2 billion.
The 62-year-old joined laptop networking firm Arista Networks as CEO in 2008 when the enterprise had no gross sales. The now publicly traded firm, which she nonetheless runs, recorded $4.4 billion in income in 2022, up 48 p.c from the prior 12 months, regardless of element shortages and provide chain challenges. Arista plans to launch a brand new suite of AI-based community companies this 12 months, the Forbes report mentioned.
Neerja Sethi is the second Indian-origin girl within the listing, ranked at 25 with an estimated wealth of $990 million.
Sethi and her husband, Bharat Desai, who met whereas working for IT agency Tata Consultancy Companies, launched IT companies agency Syntel of their Troy, Michigan, house in 1980. In 2018, they offered it to French IT agency Atos SE for $3.4 billion. She studied in Delhi College and Oakland College.
Software program engineer-turned-entrepreneur, Neha Narkhede, 38, is ranked 50 within the listing with a wealth of $520m.
She introduced her new firm, fraud detection agency Oscilar, in March. She co-founded the enterprise together with her husband in 2021, funding it with $20 million.
She was beforehand co-founder and former chief know-how officer of data-streaming software program agency Confluent, which went public in 2021 at $9.1bn valuation.
Former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, is ranked 77 within the listing with an estimated wealth of $350m.
The primary girl of color and immigrant to run one in all America’s 50 largest corporations, she retired as PepsiCo’s CEO in 2018 and as chair in 2019 after a dozen years in these roles. Now a director of Amazon and well being tech agency Philips, Nooyi joined Deutsche Financial institution’s new World Advisory Board final November.
Diane Hendricks, co-founder, ABC Provide, one of many largest wholesale distributors of roofing, siding and home windows within the US, with a $15bn web price, retained the highest slot within the listing adopted by musician Rihanna, having a web price of $1.4bn, reported Forbes.
