For a long time, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai have dominated discussions around the richest Indian-origin leaders in global technology, given their roles at some of the world’s most powerful companies. However, the Hurun India Rich List 2025 reveals a shift at the top, naming Arista Networks President and CEO Jayshree Ullal as the wealthiest Indian-origin tech executive, overtaking the more familiar Silicon Valley heavyweights.
Jayshree Ullal has emerged as the richest Indian professional manager globally, with a net worth of ₹50,170 crore, according to the report. This places her well ahead of several high-profile Indian-origin tech leaders in Silicon Valley, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who has a net worth of ₹9,770 crore, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who ranks seventh with ₹5,810 crore.
Ullal has been at the helm of Arista Networks since 2008, guiding the computer networking firm through a period of rapid growth. Under her leadership, Arista reported revenues of $7 billion in 2024, marking nearly a 20 per cent increase year-on-year, according to Forbes. She owns about 3 per cent of the company’s stock, part of which has been allocated to her children, niece, and nephew.
Born in London in 1961 to a Hindu family of Indian origin, Ullal spent part of her childhood in India after moving there at the age of five. Her father, a physicist, worked with India’s Ministry of Education and played a role in the development of the Indian Institutes of Technology. She later moved to San Francisco, where she continued her education and career.
Ullal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from San Francisco State University and a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University. After early stints at AMD and Fairchild Semiconductor, she rose through the ranks at Crescendo Communications before joining Cisco, where she built its switching business into a major vertical. She left Cisco in 2008 to join Arista Networks, then a tiny startup, and helped transform it into a leading cloud networking company, where she is now based in San Francisco.
