Forbes recently released the top-paid young CEOs list that features two Indians (or should I say Indian origin) – Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen and Cognizant’s Francisco D’Souza.
The list that features 15 top-paid young CEOs ranks Narayen at 5th and D’Souza at the 15th position. In terms of age, D’Souza is the youngest of the 15 CEOs at 39.
Shantanu Narayen
Francisco D’Souza
The top spot is taken by Pakistiani origin Nabeel Gareeb, who is the CEO of chip-maker MEMC Electronic Materials (Interestingly, Gareeb in hindi means Poor – what a Oxymoron :). He takes home annual pay package of 79.6 million dollars (roughly 315 crore rupees) !
| Rank | Name | Annual Package in million USD |
| 1 | Nabeel Gareeb | 79.6 |
| 2 | Jen-Hsun Huang | 45.9 |
| 3 | Marc Holliday | 30.0 |
| 4 | Jonathan Schwartz | 13.5 |
| 5 | Shantanu Narayen | 12 |
| 6 | Michael T Fries | 11 |
| 7 | Thomas J Quinlan III | 6.5 |
| 8 | Peter R Huntsman | 5.4 |
| 9 | Paul Varga | 5.3 |
| 10 | Danaher’s H Lawrence | 5.3 |
| 11 | Dara Khosrowshahi | 4.9 |
| 12 | Robert Niblock | 4.6 |
| 13 | Gregory Case | 4.5 |
| 14 | August Busch IV | 4.0 |
| 15 | Francisco D’Souza | 3.7 |
