Thomas Kurian is usually credited with reviving Google Cloud. He was born in Kerala and raised in Bengaluru. (File)
Thomas Kurian, who was born in Kerala in 1966 to PC Kurian and Molly, is likely one of the most profitable Indian executives on the earth. He is the CEO of Google Cloud since 2018. He was the second richest Indian govt on the earth whose web value was greater than twice that of his boss, Sundar Pichai. His similar twin brother George Kurian has been the CEO of NetApp since 2015.
Thomas Kurian’s father was a chemical engineer. They did their education from Bengaluru’s St Joseph’s Boys High School. Both have been meritorious college students. They each went to the IIT Madras. However, they dropped out as they acquired admissions in Princeton University. They moved to the United States on the age of 16. He did bachelor’s in electrical engineering. He later did MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. His first job was McKinsey and Company.
He remained with the corporate for six years. Here, he spearheaded consulting groups working with the CEOs. He labored within the area of Financial Services, telecommunications and so on. In 1996, he moved to Oracle the place he labored for 22 years. There, he led a group of 35,000 throughout 32 nations. He resigned as a consequence of his variations with the corporate’s co-founder Larry Ellison, in 2018. He later joined Google as its CEO.
Kurian is usually credited with reviving Google Cloud. He modified the corporate’s technique and shifted focus to customer support. He additionally raised the salaries of Google Cloud gross sales individuals to extend their motivation. He employed extra salespeople, technical specialists and account managers. He prolonged cloud companies to some industries. He additionally launched a platform referred to as Anthos that helped corporations to handle their knowledge positioned in numerous clouds.
On his LinkedIn profile, he wrote that his mission is to speed up the corporate’s capacity to rework their enterprise.
At Oracle, he developed merchandise that generated 35 billion in annual revenues. His firm’s cloud income underneath him was over 5.5 billion {dollars}. He additionally led the 250-strong gross sales group. He was the richest Indian supervisor on the earth.
The web value of Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2022– per IIFL Hurun India List — was Rs 5300 crore. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen’s web value was Rs 3800 crore.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s web value was Rs 6200 crore.
Thomas Kurian’s web value was a whopping Rs 12,100 crore. He was solely behind Arista Networks’ Jayshree Ullal.
