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Meet Indian engineer who worked at Apple, has salary package of over Rs 250 crore, not from IIT or IIM, he’s CEO of…

Shantanu Narayen started his career by joining a startup called MeasureX Automobiles System in 1986. After 3 years, he got an opportunity to join Apple and he went for it.

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Meet Indian engineer who worked at Apple, has salary package of over Rs 250 crore, not from IIT or IIM, he’s CEO of…
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen
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Indian origin executives are leading a few of the biggest tech companies in the world. Most of the top executives of these big techs are IIT or IIM graduates, a bunch of such companies also have Indian CEOs who have secured engineering degrees from other popular colleges. One such engineer with more than Rs 250 crore is currently leading Adobe, a company with a market cap of over 190 billion dollars. The engineer we are talking about is Shantanu Narayen who is Chairman, President and CEO of Adobe. Shantanu Narayen is a cricket and sailing enthusiast born in a well-to-do Hyderabad family. Before moving to the United States, he completed his engineering from Hyderabad's Osmania University. Narayen holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. During his master’s, he met Reni, who later became his wife. He also holds a MBA degree from the University of California.

Shantanu Narayen started his career by joining a startup called MeasureX Automobiles System in 1986. After 3 years, he got an opportunity to join Apple and he went for it. He stayed at Apple for around six years and moved to Silicon Graphics, which dealt with desktop products. He joined Adobe as a senior vice president. Right before the company headed into one of its worst phases during the 2008 recession, Narayen was appointed as the CEO. Through his hard work and intelligence, Narayen was able to pull out the company from the crisis.

Shantanu Narayen is lauded for Adobe's subscription model which became a roaring success. According to Hurun list, in 2022, he had a net worth of Rs 3800 crore dollars. On the other hand, Sundar Pichai's net worth was Rs 5300 crore. Narayen is one of the highest paid executives in the world. In 2022, he was paid over 31 million dollars which is around 256 crore rupees. He has been awarded Padma Shri, India's third highest civilian award, in 2019. The techie has also represented India in sailing at an Asian regatta.

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