4 Indian American businesswomen on Forbes’ 2023 list
Jayshree Ullal, Neerja Sethi, Neha Narkhede, and Indra Nooyi are among America’s 100 most successful women
Four Indian American businesswomen — Jayshree Ullal, Neerja Sethi, Neha Narkhede, and Indra Nooyi —are featured among Forbes’ 2023 list America’s 100 most successful women.
The most successful Indian American woman, Jayshree Ullal, 62, CEO and president, Arista Networks, is ranked 15 with a wealth of $2.2 billion, while the overall list is topped by Diane Hendricks,76, of ABC Supply with a wealth of $15 billion.
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Here are the Indian American women featured on the list:
Jayshree Ullal, 62, CEO and president, Arista Networks
Rank: 15
Wealth: $2.2 billion
Source: Computer networking
Residence: Saratoga, CA
The Silicon Valley engineer and Cisco veteran joined computer networking company Arista Networks as CEO in 2008 when the business had no sales.
The now publicly traded company, which she still runs, recorded $4.4 billion in revenue in 2022, up 48 percent from the prior year, despite component shortages and supply chain challenges. Arista plans to launch a new suite of AI-based network services this year.
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Neerja Sethi, 68
Rank: 25
Wealth: $990 million
Source: IT consulting, outsourcing
Residence: Fisher Island, FL
Sethi and her husband, Bharat Desai, who met while working for IT firm Tata Consultancy Services, launched IT services firm Syntel in their Troy, Michigan, apartment in 1980. In 2018, they sold it to French IT firm Atos SE for $3.4 billion.
Neha Narkhede, 38, co-founder, Oscilar. Image: Erin Beach
Rank: 50
Wealth: $520 million
Source: Software
Residence: Palo Alto, CA
The software engineer-turned-entrepreneur announced her new company—fraud detection firm Oscilar—in March. She co-founded the business with her husband in 2021, funding it with $20 million; she is CEO. She was previously co-founder and former chief technology officer of data-streaming software firm Confluent, which went public in 2021 at a splashy $9.1 billion valuation.
Indra Nooyi, 67, former CEO of PepsiCo.
Rank: 77
Wealth: $350 million
Source: Pepsi
Residence: Greenwich, CT
The first woman of color and immigrant to run one of America’s 50 largest companies, she retired as PepsiCo’s CEO in 2018 and as chair in 2019 after a dozen years in those roles. Now a director of Amazon and health tech firm Philips, Nooyi joined scandal-plagued Deutsche Bank’s new Global Advisory Board last November.
