This time around, the Forbes list of richest self-made women in America features five women who have their roots in India. Their total net worth adds up to $4.6 billion. Here’s everything about them.
Jayashree Ullal
Ullal is the chief operating officer and president of Arista Network for the last 13 years. She ranks 16 on this list and has a $1.7 billion net worth. She owns 5 percent of stocks from the Arista network. Ullal is also on the board of directors of Snowflake, a cloud computing company that went public in 2020. She got her bachelor’s in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University. Additionally, she also has a masters’s in engineering management from Santa Clara University.
Neerja Sethi
Neerja Sethi ranks 26 on the list and has a net worth of $1 billion. Sethi is the co-founder of Syntel, an IT consulting and outsourcing firm. She obtained her bachelor’s degree and MBA from Delhi University. She also earned about $510 million for her stake when Atos SE bought Syntel for $3.4 billion.
Neha Narkhede
Neha Narkhede lists 29th on the list of America’s self-made women. She is the former chief tech officer and co-founder of Confluent, a cloud company. Additionally, she was instrumental in developing LinkedIn. She incorporated the use of Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system to manage the huge data influx. She also owns 8 percent of the firm when it went public earlier this year.
Reshma Shetty
Reshma Shetty lists 39 on the Forbes list and, is the co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks. Her company uses robotics and data analytics to speed the process of making and discovering new organisms. Her net worth is valued at $750 million. The company also opened up its facilities in Boston for coronavirus research. It was a major driver in increasing testing during the peak of the pandemic.
Indra Nooyi
Nooyi has a net worth of $290 million. She has spent over 12 years at a top post in PepsiCo. This former chair and CEO also prevented a bid to break up PepsiCo. She also introduced environment-friendly systems and healthier products to the firm. She grew up in India but got her MBA from Yale. In 2019, she joined Amazon‘s board of directors.