New Delhi: Hurun India’s rich list 2024 has identified 10 richest Indian professional managers. The list also shows 1,539 people across 134 cities have ₹ 1,000 crore wealth. In the 13th year of the list, wealth calculations were taken as on July 31, 2024.
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- Leading the list is Jayshree Ullal, 63, of Arista Networks with a wealth of ₹ 32,100 crore. She led the company to a historic and successful initial public offering (IPO) in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business.
- Nikesh Arora, 56, of Palo Alto Networks is in the second position. His wealth is ₹ 9,300 crore. Mr Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp.
- Satya Nadella, 57, Microsoft CEO, has a wealth of ₹ 8,000 crore. Joining Microsoft in 1992, he quickly became known as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and businesses to transform some of Microsoft’s biggest product offerings.
- Ignatius Navil Noronha, 49, Managing Director and CEO of Avenue Supermarts Ltd, has a wealth of ₹ 6,900 crore. Before joining DMart’s parent company, Avenue Supermarts, Mr Noronha spent eight years at Hindustan Unilever, gaining valuable experience in market research and modern trade.
- Thomas Kurian, 58, has a wealth of ₹ 5,500 crore via his investments.
- Ajaypal Singh Banga, 64, has a wealth of ₹ 5,500 crore via his investments.
- Sundar Pichai, 52, CEO of Google and Alphabet, has a wealth of ₹ 5,400 crore. Mr Pichai also serves on Alphabet’s board of directors. Under his leadership, Google has been focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in AI, that offer help in moments big and small.
- Shantanu Narayen, 61, Adobe Chairman and CEO, is worth ₹ 4,700 crore. Preserving the status quo is not a winning strategy. This core belief drove Mr Narayen and his leadership team’s successful transformation of Adobe, moving its creative software franchise from the desktop to the cloud.
- Indra K Nooyi, 68, former chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo (2006-2019), has a wealth of ₹ 3,900 crore. Prior to becoming CEO, Ms Nooyi served as PepsiCo’s president and chief financial officer and was a member of the company’s board of directors.
- Sanjay Mehrotra, 66, president and chief executive officer at Micron Technology, has a wealth of ₹ 2,700 crore. Mr Mehrotra joined Micron in 2017 after a distinguished career at SanDisk where he led the company from a start-up in 1988 until its sale in 2016.