Ten years ago, India’s economy was teetering on the precipice. Growth was slowing and investor confidence was low.
A dozen Indian billionaires had gone bankrupt, saddling the country’s banks with enormous unpaid loans that had crippled their capacity to lend.
However, if we fast forward to today the picture couldn’t be more different. Despite major geopolitical turbulence, India’s banking sector remains robust, bolstered further by stable government finances, paving the way for huge economic growth.
Last year India surpassed the UK as the fifth largest economy last year and according to analysts at Morgan Stanley, it’s on track to overtake Japan and Germany and hit the third spot by 2027.
India’s tech sector has played a leading role here, helping to reposition India as a global economic force to be reckoned with. And given that the government is working to push the envelope further and foster the perfect conditions for innovation, India’s tech sector is on course to reach new heights.
Founders and executives from India are now leaders in their home economy and in prominent enterprises in Silicon Valley and across the globe.
This list takes a look at 10 top tech Indian entrepreneurs and executives across the globe who are catching our attention in 2024 with their innovative business models, novel ideas and leading initiatives.
Ranjit Tinaikar is the Chief Executive Officer of Ness Digital Engineering, a global provider of digital transformation solutions. Ranjit has over 30 years of experience in the technology services sector with a track record of driving growth in the businesses that he has managed. In the past he served as President of Fitch Solutions, a data and analytical services business.
Ranjit was also a partner at McKinsey, where he was one of the earliest leaders in forming its Digital practice. At McKinsey, he founded the Lean Software Development and IT Strategy practices.
Rajat is a senior technology executive turned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize great business presentations. He is the founder and CEO of Prezent, the presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams.
Prior to Prezent, Rajat was a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems where he had P&L responsibility for Cisco’s $14B CX business. He earlier served in leadership roles at McKinsey & Company and Microsoft Corporation.
Sanjoe Tom Jose is a prominent thought leader in the HR Tech space and the founder & CEO of Talview. He is passionate about building technologies that make talent management at organizations more effective and efficient.
Sanjoe is a published author, awarded innovator and contributor to various leading technology and business publications. He has his MBA from IIT Bombay.
Jitesh Shetty is the CEO of Credibl ESG, a sustainability tech company looking to help the good actors in the ecosystem stand out from the rest, and improve their performance on the ESG and sustainability criteria.
Before Credibl Jitesh founded a cloud computing labs company Qwiklabs which he sold to Google. He is also an investor in 17+ AI and deep tech companies, and received his Masters degree was USC.
Sashank Purighalla is the CEO of BOS Framework, a comprehensive cloud enablement platform that brings together cloud provisioning, cloud management, and cloud compliance into a single platform and makes it available from a single interface.
Sashank helps growing tech-enabled organizations with strong strategic and long-range planning, setting and executing product and technology roadmaps, and bringing business efficiencies by applying the right solutions in a cost-effective manner.
Deepti Juturu is the founder and CEO of Prezentium. Deepti has over 15 years of experience in business communication and data analytics. Prior to Prezentium, she was a Senior Marketing Science Manager at Genentech, where she was responsible for business synthesis, executive communication and data analytics for an array of blockbuster drugs.
Before Genentech, Deepti was a Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company, where they led McKinsey teams across business functions and industries to deliver impactful business communication and executive presentations. Deepti was recognized at McKinsey for her business communication skills and for driving data-backed insights to actions within complex client environments.
Shagun is the founder and CEO of SkyStem. A CPA, CIA and an experienced auditor and process consultant, she designed ART for accountants. Having gone through the broken and inefficient process various times over, she believed there was a more efficient and user friendly way to do reconciliations.
Shagun has been an inspirational speaker for Kauffman Foundation programs and NY Business Plan Competition Awards ceremony. She started her career as a public accountant and has worked in Fortune 100 companies such as Marriott and Freddie Mac.
Ruban Phukan has over two decades of pioneering work in AI, machine learning, information retrieval, search, visualization, and conversational user interfaces. He is driven by a quest for problem-solution-fit in the enterprise and consumer world, believing deeply in the importance of understanding hard problems thoroughly to devise fitting solutions, regardless of their complexity.
The CEO of GoodGist, Ruban is on a mission to create AI agents for all professionals, working with professionals across various industries to automate routine tasks to improve productivity and generate value in other areas of a company.
As the Founder and Chief Scientist at Infinita Lab, Pradyumna’s mission is to organize materials testing and make it easily accessible to materials engineers, the same way Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible.
With a deep passion for R&D excellence, he lead a team of impressive minds dedicated to pioneering advancements in semiconductors, batteries, EV, advanced materials, and aerospace.
Ambarish is the founder of Knowlarity, Asia’s largest cloud telephony company. With 20 years of global experience in business strategy, marketing, technology and organizational effectiveness, Ambarish brings in unmatched expertise in everything SaaS, engineering, business strategy and operations. He has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors in Technology from IIT Kanpur.
He founded Basis Vectors private equity firm to acquire and transform SaaS businesses using these next generation of service delivery models.
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