3 India-born CEOs on Fortune Business Person of the Year list

November 13, 2014 20:23

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."

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