Many Indians or people of Indian origin have been making a name for themselves in various fields around the world. This has put India proudly on a global stage with the numbers only growing by the day.
Recently, Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista Networks, has been named as one of only five Indian-Americans on Forbes’ list of America’s richest self-made women. Ullal has been ranked 15th on the list with a net worth of $1.9 billion.
About Jayshree Ullal
Born in London in 1961 and raised in New Delhi, Ullal studied electrical engineering at San Francisco State University and engineering management at Santa Clara University.
Soon after, she joined Arista Networks, a computer networking firm that was not very big at the time. In 2008, she became the president and CEO of the company.
To ad into her achievements as the CEO of Arista, in August 2018, the company settled a multi-year patent infringement battle with Cisco, Ullal’s former employer, agreeing to pay Cisco $400 million.
As per Forbes, Jayshree joined the board of directors of Snowflake which is a cloud computing company that went public in September 2020 and recorded revenue of $2.3 billion in the same year. The revenue was nearly 4% less as compared to the fiscal year 2019.
Forbes also states that Ullal owns about 5% of Arista’s stock, some of which is earmarked for her two children, niece, and nephew.
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Other Indian-Americans On the List
As for other Indian-Americans on the list, Neerja Sethi ranked 24th with a net worth of $1 billion. Sethi co-founded IT consulting and outsourcing firm Syntel with her husband Bharat Desai in 1980 with an initial investment of just $2,000.
Neha Narkhede who is the co-founder of cloud company Confluent ranked 57th on the list with a net worth of $900 million.
Indra Nooyi, the former chairperson, and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, ranked 87th with a net worth of $320 million.
The last Indian-American to make it amongst the 100 names was Reshma Shetty who ranked 97th on the list with a total net worth of $220 million. Shetty is the co-founder of Gingko Bioworks, a synthetic biotechnology company that was created in 2009 with four others, including her husband Barry Canton
