50 Most Influential Indian Americans

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 15 September 2012, 00:08 IST
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Sanjay Jha

Sanjay is the former CEO of Motorola mobility, a communications corporation headquartered in Illinois. He previously worked as the co-chief executive officer of Motorola and was appointed to the  position of CEO in the year 2008.

Sanjay started his career as a senior engineer at Qualcomm in 1994 and later on was promoted to vice-president of engineering. He served many leading positions in the company and also played a prominent role in taking the company towards success.

Sant Singh Chatwal

Chatwal is a famous hotelier and businessman, who is the owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and $750 million hotel chain Hampshire Hotels & Resorts. Even though he has been a resident of America for more than 25 years, he says that ‘my tastes remain the same and I feel strongly rooted to my land of birth’.

Kalpen Suresh Modi,

Kal Penn, popular as Kal Penn is a Hollywood film and TV actor, who has also worked under the Obama administration, achieving greater political heights. He made his debut in ‘Express: Aisle to Glory’ in 1998 and is best known for his acting in the Harold and Kumar film series.

Pradeep K. Khosla is the chancellor of University of California, who formerly served as the dean of Carnegie Mellon University's CMU) engineering college.

Khosla worked as the dean of CMU for eight years and during his tenure he started curriculum reform, diversity efforts and organized multidisciplinary and multi-college research centres as well as international programmes.

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati

Bhagwati is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University who is renowned for his research in international trade and for his promotion of free trade.