THREE leading India-born CEOs, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella, who took their companies “full speed ahead” have featured in Fortune's Businessperson of the Year list topped by Google CEO Larry Page.
Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Harman International Chairman Dinesh Paliwal have been named among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation.
Banga is ranked 28th on the list, Nadella 38th and Paliwal 42nd.
These corporate heads “kept a steady hand on the tiller – and took their companies “full speed ahead” in a year of “tumult from volatile markets to viral outbreaks to a striking return to Cold War politics.”
Page, who topped the list, has “shown himself to be the world's most daring CEO” by not only building the Internet's “most profitable franchise” but also revolutionising transportation and “upending medicine.”
Fortune said Page has built his factory of the future while keeping Google's multi-billion dollar business humming and positioning the company for a dominant role in the era of wearables and Internet-connected cars and homes.
Fortune said Nadella introduced a “humbler, leaner, and hipper” Microsoft in his first year as CEO.
