richest Indian American billionaires

Rakesh Gangwal, Co-founder of IndiGo Airlines

Miami-based Rakesh Gangwal, with a net worth of USD 3.3 billion, is the richest Indian American. Co-founder of IndiGo, a low-cost domestic airline in India, Rakesh Gangwal made it to the Forbes 2018 list of billionaires as the wealthiest of 10 Indian billionaires in the United States. Kolkata-born Rakesh is an alumnus of IIM Lucknow in mechanical engineering. He studied MBA at Wharton School of Pennsylvania University and fulfilled his American Dreams when he became the Chairman of US Airways Group after a stint in strategic planning for United Airlines in 1984. The richest Indian American Rakesh Gangwal’s founded InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. in 2000 and cofounded IndiGo in 2006. Today, IndiGo is India’s biggest low-cost carrier in terms of domestic market share.

Romesh T. Wadhwani, CEO of Symphony Technology Group 

Symphony Technology Group’s founder and CEO, Romesh T. Wadhwani from California is the second richest of all Indian American billionaires on the Forbes 2018 list, for his net worth of 3.1 billion US dollars. Romesh Wadhwani is not just one of the wealthiest Indian American entrepreneurs but a compassionate philanthropist too. His family shifted from Pakistan to India during the Partition in 1947. He is an alumnus of IIT Bombay in electrical engineering and holds a PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University. The richest Gujarati in America, Romesh T. Wadhwani is a self-made serial entrepreneur. One of the top 10 Gujarati Indian billionaires, he set up the Wadhwani Foundation with several initiatives including the National Entrepreneurship Network to drive socio-economic development in countries like India. In 2012, he opened a research center at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru.

Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures

With net worth of USD 2.3 billion, Sun Microsystems’ ex-cofounder Vinod Khosla is the third richest of all Indian American billionaires in 2018. An alumnus of Mount St Mary’s School in New Delhi, he studied at IIT Delhi, Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford Graduate School of Business. An article on the founding of Intel in print media piqued his interest in technology when he was a teenager. He established Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California and cofounded the Indus Entrepreneurs (NiE), a non-profit network of entrepreneurs.

Kavitark Ram Shriram 

With a net worth of $ 2.1 billion, Kavitark Ram Shriram stands fourth on the list of richest Indian Americans and is one of the well-known Indian American investors in California. Among the early investors in Google, Kavitark was born in Chennai and graduated in mathematics at Chennai’s Loyola College. He worked for Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon and the world’s richest billionaire on Forbes 2018 list, before making headlines for his investment worth $250,000 in Google. A board member of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Kavitark Ram Shriram founded Sherpalo, a venture capital firm for technology startups in 2000. He joined the league of Indian American philanthropists by donating a whopping $61 million to Stanford University.

Brian Sheth, Youngest Indian American Billionaire 

With a net worth of $2 billion, Brian Sheth is the youngest Indian American billionaire on Forbes’ 2018 list of billionaires. The fourth richest of all Indian-origin billionaires in America, Brian Nirajan Sheth is the cofounder and president of Vista Equity Partners in Austin, Texas. An alumnus of Pennsylvania University’s Wharton School, he is a wildlife enthusiast and conservationist too. Along with his wife, Brian Sheth chairs Global Wildlife Conservation in Ausin, an international organization dedicated to wildlife and environment. Prior to plunging into entrepreneurship, Brian Sheth worked at Bain Capital, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Goldman Sachs.      

John Kapoor

With a net worth of $1.8 billion, Amritsar-born John Kapoor is the fifth richest of Indian American billionaires in USA. A pharmaceutical entrepreneur in Phoenix, Arizona, John Kapoor founded Insys Therapeutics in 1990. Upon completion of his studies on pharmacy at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, John Nath Kapoor earned a PhD degree in medicinal chemistry from the University of Buffalo and found ground to make his ‘American Dreams’ come true there. Apart from owning restaurants in San Francisco and Chicago, he heads the John and Editha Kapoor Charitable Foundation for victims of breast cancer.  

Aneel Bhusri, Net Worth: $1.85 Billion 

One of the 10 richest Indian American billionaires and entrepreneurs, Aneel Bhusri is the cofounder and CEO of Workday Inc. Born in Pittsford, New York, Aneel Bhusri does also serve on the board of directors at Intel. Among the richest entrepreneurs of Indian origin in America, he is a partner at Greylock which has funded global companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, Tumblr, and Groupon. An alumnus of Stanford University in MBA, he began his career as a corporate finance analyst at Morgan Stanley. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Niraj Shah, Net Worth: $1.6 Billion

The second youngest Indian American billionaire with a net worth of $ 1.6 billion, Niraj Shah is a newcomer on Forbes’ list of billionaire worldwide. The CEO of Wayfair, an American ecommerce company dealing in home goods online, Niraj S. Shah is the eighth richest of all billionaires of Indian origin in the US. A resident of Boston, he cofounded Wayfair in 2002. Today, Wayfair with over 5200 employees generates annual revenue of more than USD 3 billion. He featured on the Fortune list of 40 under 40 in 2013 and was made a director of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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