5 Indian-origin women in 2021 tops the forbes list of 'America’s Richest Self Made Women'
These five indian - origin women secured the head list of the forbes, America’s Richest Self-Made Women. Collectively their net worth is $4.6 billion. The list of America’s Richest Self-Made women highlights five women of indian ancestry. The list includes - Pepsico’s former chairman and CEO indra Nooyi, Neha Narkhede, Neerja Sethi, reshma Shetty, and Jayshree Ullal.
Indra Nooyi
With a net value of $290 million, Nooyi contributed more than 12 years at the head post in PepsiCo. The CEO saved PepsiCo and proposed environment-friendly systems and healthier products. Nooyi sprouted up in india and crammed MBA at Yale.
Jayshree Ullal
Ullal, CEO, and president of Arista Networks was placed 16 on the forbes list. She has a net value of $1.7 billion. Ullal holds 5% of the computer networking firm Arista Networks’ stock. She also accompanied the cloud computing firm Snowflake’s board of directors, which spread public in 2020.
Neerja Sethi
Sethi, with a net value of $1 billion, rates 26th on the list. She, co-founded IT consulting and outsourcing firm Syntel. Sethi is a scholar of delhi university where she persevered her bachelor's and her MBA.
Neha Narkhede
Narkhede is the co-founder and ex-chief technology officer of cloud firm Confluent. She studied Bachelor of Science in Engineering at the university of pune and proceeded Masters of Science in technology at georgia Tech. Narkhede was effective in the development of LinkedIn, where she acquired the open-source messaging method Apache Kafka to examine the site’s huge data inrush. Narkhede’s family owns 8% of the organization which went unrestricted in june 2021 at a $9.1 billion estimate.
Reshma Shetty
Reshma Shetty, who outranks 39 on the list, co-founded Gingko Bioworks, a biotechnology firm, which applies data analytics and robotics to rush up the process of exploring and making new organisms. She co-founded Gingko with her partner Barry Canton and the firm went public in a $17.5 billion SPAC deal. Her business started its Boston facilities for an investigation into the coronavirus and supported in ramping up examination facilities during the pandemic.
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