New Delhi: The elevation of Parag Agrawal as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter has once again highlighted the fact that many prominent global technology companies are headed by Indian-origin techies.
The 37-year-old computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Stanford will take over the CEO of the microblogging site immediately, following Jack Dorsey’s surprise resignation. Agrawal has joined the likes of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who all are at the helm of global tech.
There are several other Indians at top of global firms. Rajeev Suri was elevated to President and CEO of Nokia in April 2014 after Microsoft acquired the company.
While Shantanu Narayen has been heading Adobe as CEO since 2007, SanDisk was co-founded by Indian-American businessman Sanjay Mehrotra. Nikesh Arora, the ex-CEO of investment firm Softbank now heads security firm Palo Alto Networks as its chairman and CEO.
With this, Twitter is the new addition to the tech giants to be led by an Indian.
Meanwhile, Indian users were busy doing the most ‘Desiest’ thing ever that is searching Parag Agrawal’s Salary, IIT rank, and more.
About Parag Agrawal’s career
Parag, aged 37, is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai where he did his Bachelors in Engineering in computer science. Parag secured 77th rank in the IIT entrance examination.
He moved to the US for further studies, with his doctorate coming from Stanford University based in California.
Further, Parag joined Twitter in 2011. Before that, he briefly worked at Microsoft, AT&T and Yahoo. In all three companies, his work was mostly research-oriented. Initially, at Twitter, he worked on ad-related products, but gradually he also dabbled in artificial intelligence.
“Parag has been behind every critical decision that helped turn this company around. He’s curious, probing, rational, creative, demanding, self-aware and humble,” Dorsey posted on his Twitter account.
Parag Agrawal’s salary
Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, plus bonuses. Parag will get restricted stock units valued at $12.5 million that’ll vest in 16 equal quarterly increments which will start from February 1, 2022. He will get performance-based restricted stock units valued at $12.5 million in April.
