Google’s Sundar Pichai joins elite list of Indian CEOs heading top companies 9 Photos . Updated: 11 Aug 2015, 04:21 PM IST Livemint India-born Sundar Pichai has been named as CEO of Google 1/9Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google: The bespectacled, bearded Pichai, all of 43, is Google’s new CEO. His journey from an IIT student to Google CEO has been truly remarkable. Bloomberg 2/9Ajaypal Singh Banga, President & CEO, MasterCard Inc: Banga received a BA degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University before starting his career with Nestle in 1981. In 2010, Banga, became the CEO of MasterCard. Bloomberg 3/9Nikesh Arora, President & COO, SoftBank Corp: Arora has had a meteoric rise from Google to Japanese major Softbank.In June 2015, he was appointed Softbank’s president and COO. Priyanka Parashar/Mint 4/9Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft: Indian-American Nadella became Microsoft CEO in 2014. As the third CEO of Microsoft, he is seen to bring a relentless drive for innovation and a spirit of collaboration to his new role. Ramesh Pathania/Mint 5/9Francisco D’Souza, CEO, Cognizant: D’Souza became US-based Cognizant’s CEO in 2007 and is among the youngest CEO’s in the software services sector. In 2014, he was named the ‘Newsmaker of the Year’ by The Financial Express. 6/9Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo: Born in Chennai, Nooyi joined PepsiCo. in 1994 and in 2006 became CEO. Nooyi has the distinction of being consistently ranked among the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Priyanka Parashar/Mint 7/9Shantanu Narayen, president & CEO, Adobe Systems Incorporated: Narayen grew up in Hyderabad and started his career with Apple before joining Adobe in 1998 where he was made CEO in 2007. Hemant Mishra/Mint 8/9Thomas Kurian, president, product development, Oracle: Kurian hails from Kerala and was appointed president of Oracle Product Development in January 2015. His twin brother, George Kurian is CEO of storage company NetApp since June 2015. Hemant Mishra/ Mint 9/9Rakesh Kapoor, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc: Kapoor did his BE (Hons.) in Chemical engineering from BITS (Pilani). He joined Reckitt and Colman in 1987 and took over as the CEO of the company in 2011. Bloomberg