The UC World is Flat

When I was young, India was a mystical place of elephants and snake charmers. Turns out there were also a lot of really good schools and students there too. The gap between our great countries has narrowed over the years. Especially in tech. As the US tech sector grew it frequently turned to India for talent.

It is common now to find Indian raised professionals in US technology companies – and many have done exceedingly well. Last year Satya Nadella was appointed as Microsoft’s CEO. It may be lonely at the top, but he has plenty of compatriots. Vinod Dham of Intel is known as the father of the Pentium chip; Sundar Pichai at Google oversees Android, Chrome, and Apps; Padmasree Warrior is CTO at Cisco.

India has a long history in technology. Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) is credited with inventing the first radios – years before Marconi. He is not well known partly because he was opposed to patents – ahead of his time.

This post recognizes some of the most influential US-based Indian executives in enterprise communications and collaboration (in alphabetical order).

 

Name	Title	Company
Venky Krishnaswamy	VP Labs Research	Avaya
Pankaj Malhorta	SVP Engineering	ShoreTel
Rohit Mehra	VP Networks and Infrastructure	IDC
Ram Menghani	VP Product Management and Dev	NEC
Bharath Oruganti	SVP of Services and Operations	ShoreTel
Gurdeep Singh Pall	CVP Skype	Microsoft
Pankaj Patel	EVP over Collaboration	Cisco
Amit Singh	President Google for Work	Google
Sanjay Srinivasan	CTO	Telesphere-Vonage

 

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