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# 1. Jay Chaudhry (Net worth: $8.3 billion)
The CEO of Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry, was born in Panoh, a small town Himachal Pradesh without running water. Today, Chaudhry has the highest net worth of any Indian American in the US. His rise from a remote Himalayan town to Wall Street is a motivational tale of American Dreams. Chaudhry is one of the most successful Indian-origin businessmen in the San Francisco Bay Area’s cyber security industry.
#2. Vinod Khosla (Net worth: $5.3 billion)
Vinod Khosla’s net worth has increased from $2.3 billion in 2020 to $5.3 billion in 2022, thanks to a boost in his wealth. Khosla, a former co-founder of Sun Microsystems, is currently the second-richest Indian American, as per Forbes 2022. After graduating from Mount St. Mary’s School in New Delhi, he attended the IIT Delhi, before moving to Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
#3. Romesh T. Wadhwani (Net worth: $5.1 billion)
His family shifted from Pakistan to India during the 1947 Partition. Today, Wadhwani is the richest Gujarati in America. The founder and CEO of Symphony Technology Group is a self-made serial entrepreneur. Based in California, Wadhwani has moved to the third rank among the richest Indian-origin American billionaires on Forbes 2022, as his net worth spiked to $5.1 billion, from $3.4 billion in 2020. Wadhwani, known a compassionate philanthropist, is an alumnus of IIT Bombay in electrical engineering and holds a PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
#4. Rakesh Gangwal (Net worth: $4 billion)
Rakesh Gangwal was born in Kolkata. Now based in Miami, Florida, Gangwal has with a net worth of over $4 billion, which makes him the fourth richest Indian-origin American among the 400 billionaires in America, according to Forbes 2022. A former co-founder of IndiGo, India’s largest low-cost airline, Gangwal was the richest of 10 Indian-origin American billionaires in 2018. An alumnus of IIM Lucknow in mechanical engineering, he studied MBA at Wharton School of Pennsylvania University.
#5. Aneel Bhusri (Net worth: $2.3 billion)
Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO of Workday Inc., is one of the wealthiest billionaires and businessmen of Indian descent. He was educated at Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. His first job after college was as a corporate finance analyst at Morgan Stanley, after receiving his MBA from Stanford.
#6. Kavitark Ram Shriram (Net worth: $2.3 billion)
Born in Chennai, India, Kavitark Ram Shriram is one of the most well-known Indian-origin investors in California, with a net worth of $2.3 billion. Kavitark, one of the original Google investors, earned a degree in mathematics from Chennai’s Loyola College.
# 7. Brian Sheth (Net worth: $2.2 billion
Brian N. Sheth is the former CEO and President of Austin, Texas-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. His father was an immigrant from India who worked in finance and marketing, and his Irish-Catholic mother worked as an insurance analyst. With an estimated net worth of $2 billion, Sheth was included in the Forbes 2018 World Billionaires list. He was also included in both Forbes’ and Fortune’s lists of the “40 under 40” in 2015. He is the youngest Indian American billionaire on Forbes’ 2019 list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. He is a Wharton School graduate from Pennsylvania University.
#8. Jayshree Ullal (Net worth: $1.43 billion)
Jayshree Ullal, one of the wealthiest self-made businesswomen in the US, is the only woman of Indian descent on the Forbes billionaires club. Ullal, the president, and chief executive officer of the computer networking company Arista Networks, was included in Forbes’ 2018 list of billionaires due to her $1.43 billion net worth. Jayshree’s father’s name is Sudarajan Vedantham (physicist). Her father is known to be among the founders of the Indian Institutes of Technology. She was a Santa Clara University graduate with a master’s degree in engineering management.
#9. Bharat Desai (Net worth: $1.27 billion)
Bharat Desai was born in Kenya and reared in Ahmedabad, India. He earned his electrical engineering degree from IIT Bombay and went on to complete his MBA in finance at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He co-founder of Syntel and was listed as the 10th-richest Indian American billionaire in 2018.
#10. Thomas Kurian (Net worth: $1.2 billion)
Thomas Kurian, one of the most successful Indian executives in the world, was born in Kerala in 1966 to PC Kurian and Molly. Currently, Kurian is the CEO of Google Cloud, a post he held since 2018. He was the second richest Indian executive in the world whose net worth was more than twice that of his boss, Sundar Pichai. His identical twin brother George Kurian has been the CEO of NetApp since 2015. Their father was a chemical engineer. After earning a degree in electrical engineering, he earned an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Meet the top 10 richest Indian-origin billionaires in the US | Special-reports – Gulf News
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