'It's a tsunami': Anand Mahindra on the latest Indian-origin CEO

After Laxman Narasimhan was named the new Chief Executive Officer of global coffee giant Starbucks, industrialist Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to reflect on the trend of hiring Indian-origin CEOs

“What was initially a trickle of water has turned into a Tsunami. The appointment of Indian-origin CEOs at the world's most iconic companies is now an unstoppable trend. International boardrooms consider them to be almost ‘safe' leadership bets,” the Mahindra Group Chairman wrote.

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His followers on the social media platform followed up with likes and comments.

"World is changing from Globally to Indian locally. Most of MNCs has Indian brain at the top," commented a user.

"As an Indian origin CEO/COO of a tech company I can see the big business move here. This is why we’re bringing #SolidBlockTech to India. Looking forward to work with you in the future Sir," commented another.

Narasimhan is set to join the coffee chain as incoming CEO on October 1 this year, after relocating from London to Seattle and will work closely with interim head Howard Schultz, before assuming the top role and joining the Board on April 1, 2023.

People of Indian origin now hold top positions across the corporate areana, in academics, the information technology field as well as scientific research among others.

The list includes Sundar Pichai who heads Google and its parent company Alphabet, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, IBM's Arvind Krishna, and Adobe's Shantanu Narayen.

Following is a list of incumbent Indian-origin CEOs in the US

Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft

Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter

Arvind Krishna, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM

Vivek Sankaran, President and CEO at Albertsons

Sanjay Mehrotra, President and CEO at Micron Technology

Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO at Adobe Inc

CS Venkatakrishnan, CEO at Barclays

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet

Punit Renjen, CEO at Deloitte

Revathi Advaithi, CEO at Flex.