Vikas Chachra
Seasoned Textile professional with strong back ground of processing as management of manufacturing sector
Business & Entrepreneurship · Panipat, Haryana
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Business & technology
Founders, chief executives and investors.
Arati Prabhakar
Engineer who has led the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, DARPA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Technology · Washington, DC
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Vivek Ramaswamy
Founder of the biotech company Roivant Sciences and a candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
Roivant Sciences · Business & Entrepreneurship · Cincinnati, OH
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Co-founder and former chief executive of Nutanix, now building the customer support company DevRev.
DevRev · Technology · Palo Alto, CA
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Ram Shriram
Founding board member and first investor in Google, and founder of the venture firm Sherpalo.
Sherpalo Ventures · Business & Entrepreneurship · Menlo Park, CA
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Founder of SymphonyAI and Symphony Technology Group, and a philanthropist funding skills training in India.
SymphonyAI · Business & Entrepreneurship · Palo Alto, CA
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Chief executive of Cognizant, and previously president of Infosys.
Cognizant · Technology · Teaneck, NJ
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Jay Chaudhry
Founder and chief executive of Zscaler, his fifth security company, after growing up in a village in Himachal Pradesh.
Zscaler · Technology · San Jose, CA
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Thomas Kurian
Chief executive of Google Cloud, after two decades building Oracle's product line.
Google Cloud · Technology · Sunnyvale, CA
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Chief executive of the data storage company NetApp since 2015.
NetApp · Technology · San Jose, CA
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Sanjay Mehrotra
President and chief executive of Micron Technology, and co-founder of the flash memory pioneer SanDisk.
Micron Technology · Technology · Boise, ID
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Neal Mohan
Chief executive of YouTube, which he joined after leading Google's display advertising business.
YouTube · Technology · San Bruno, CA
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Vinod Khosla
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures, an early backer of clean energy and AI startups.
Khosla Ventures · Technology · Menlo Park, CA
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Aneel Bhusri
Co-founder and chairman of Workday, and a partner at the venture firm Greylock.
Workday · Technology · Pleasanton, CA
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Jayshree Ullal
President and chief executive of Arista Networks, the cloud networking company she took public in 2014.
Arista Networks · Technology · Santa Clara, CA
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Revathi Advaithi
Chief executive of the global manufacturing group Flex, and a long-time industrial engineer.
Flex · Business & Entrepreneurship · Austin, TX
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Raj Subramaniam
President and chief executive of FedEx, which he joined as a marketing analyst in 1991.
FedEx · Business & Entrepreneurship · Memphis, TN
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Ajay Banga
President of the World Bank, after a decade as chief executive of Mastercard.
World Bank · Finance & Insurance · Washington, DC
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Members of Congress, judges, lawyers and officials.
Varsha Joshi
Classically trained versatile & popular performing artist & wedding singer of USA. Discipline swar saagar school of music & yoga USA, prachin kala Kendra Chandigarh India.The lead artist and founder …
Varsha Joshi · Public Service & Politics · Iselin, NJ
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Sri Srinivasan
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Law & Immigration · Washington, DC
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Preet Bharara
Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, now a professor, author and podcast host.
Law & Immigration · New York, NY
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Neal Katyal
Appellate lawyer and Georgetown professor who served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States.
Georgetown Law · Law & Immigration · Washington, DC
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Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and formerly a transportation engineer and state delegate.
Public Service & Politics · Annapolis, MD
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Suhas Subramanyam
United States representative for Virginia's 10th district, and previously a state senator and White House technology adviser.
Public Service & Politics · Ashburn, VA
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Shri Thanedar
Chemist turned businessman, and United States representative for Michigan's 13th district.
Public Service & Politics · Detroit, MI
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Ami Bera
Physician and United States representative for California's 6th district in the Sacramento area.
Public Service & Politics · Elk Grove, CA
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Raja Krishnamoorthi
United States representative for Illinois's 8th district in the northwest Chicago suburbs.
Public Service & Politics · Schaumburg, IL
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Pramila Jayapal
United States representative for Washington's 7th district and a former immigrant rights organiser.
Public Service & Politics · Seattle, WA
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Ro Khanna
United States representative for California's 17th district, covering much of Silicon Valley.
Public Service & Politics · Fremont, CA
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Nikki Haley
Born in Bamberg, South Carolina; served as the state's governor and as United States ambassador to the United Nations.
Public Service & Politics · Bamberg, SC
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Doctors, researchers, deans and university presidents.
Satish Tripathi
President of the University at Buffalo, the largest campus in the State University of New York system.
University at Buffalo · Education · Buffalo, NY
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Renu Khator
Chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the university since 2008.
University of Houston · Education · Houston, TX
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Neeli Bendapudi
President of Penn State University, and previously president of the University of Louisville.
Penn State University · Education · University Park, PA
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Pradeep Khosla
Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego since 2012, and an engineer by training.
UC San Diego · Education · San Diego, CA
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President of Tufts University, and previously provost of Johns Hopkins and dean of Chicago Booth.
Tufts University · Education · Medford, MA
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Professor at Harvard Business School, which he led as dean from 2010 to 2020.
Harvard Business School · Education · Boston, MA
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Raja Chari
NASA astronaut and US Air Force test pilot who commanded the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the space station.
NASA · Other · Houston, TX
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Sunita Williams
NASA astronaut who has flown three spaceflights and held the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman.
NASA · Other · Houston, TX
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Ashish Jha
Dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, and White House Covid-19 response coordinator in 2022-23.
Brown University · Healthcare · Providence, RI
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Sanjay Gupta
Neurosurgeon at Emory University and chief medical correspondent for CNN.
CNN · Healthcare · Atlanta, GA
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Oncologist at Columbia and author of 'The Emperor of All Maladies', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.
Columbia University · Healthcare · New York, NY
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Atul Gawande
Surgeon, Harvard professor and author of 'Being Mortal' and 'The Checklist Manifesto'.
Harvard University · Healthcare · Boston, MA
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Actors, writers, musicians, chefs and athletes.
Rajeev Ram
Doubles specialist who has won multiple Grand Slam titles and an Olympic silver medal for the United States.
Sports & Fitness · Carmel, IN
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Chef behind Dhamaka and Adda, and winner of the James Beard award for Best Chef: New York State.
Unapologetic Foods · Food & Hospitality · New York, NY
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Chef and Food Network judge who runs a group of restaurants in Nashville.
Chauhan Ale & Masala House · Food & Hospitality · Nashville, TN
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Vikas Khanna
Michelin-starred chef, cookbook author and restaurateur behind Bungalow in Manhattan.
Bungalow · Food & Hospitality · New York, NY
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Nina Davuluri
Crowned Miss America in 2014, the first Indian American to win the title, and now a filmmaker and speaker.
Arts, Media & Music · New York, NY
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Vijay Iyer
Jazz pianist and composer, a MacArthur Fellow who teaches music at Harvard.
Harvard University · Arts, Media & Music · Cambridge, MA
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for 'Interpreter of Maladies' and teaches writing at Barnard College.
Barnard College · Arts, Media & Music · New York, NY
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Padma Lakshmi
Author and television host, known for 'Top Chef' and 'Taste the Nation'.
Arts, Media & Music · New York, NY
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Kunal Nayyar
Actor who played Raj Koothrappali across twelve seasons of 'The Big Bang Theory'.
Arts, Media & Music · Los Angeles, CA
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M. Night Shyamalan
Filmmaker behind 'The Sixth Sense', 'Unbreakable' and 'Split', who shoots most of his films around Philadelphia.
Arts, Media & Music · Philadelphia, PA
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Kal Penn
Actor known for 'Harold & Kumar' and 'House', who also worked in the Obama White House on public engagement.
Arts, Media & Music · Los Angeles, CA
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Hasan Minhaj
Comedian and former 'Daily Show' correspondent who hosted Netflix's 'Patriot Act'.
Arts, Media & Music · Los Angeles, CA
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People running associations, charities and nonprofits.
Rajiv Shah
President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and administrator of USAID from 2010 to 2015.
Rockefeller Foundation · Community & Non-profit · New York, NY
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