| Vikram Pandit, who was named chief executive of Citigroup, the world’s largest bank , is one of three Indian Americans to head a Fortune
100 company, joining the ranks of Indira Nooyi of Pepsico and Ramani Ayer of Hartford Financial Services.
14 of the Fortune 100 companies have foreign CEOs. Ireland and Canada tie with India for the most foreign born chief executive officers.
| FOREIGN BORN CEO’S AT TOP 100 US COMPANIES |
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| COUNTRY |
EXECUTIVE |
COMPANY |
RANK |
| Australia |
Andrew Liveris |
Dow Chemical |
40 |
| Australia |
Rupert Murdoch |
News Corp. |
88 |
| Britain |
Martin Sullivan |
American International Group |
10 |
| Britain |
George Buckley |
3M |
97 |
| Canada |
R. Kerry Clark |
Cardinal Health |
19 |
| Canada |
Gregory Spierkel |
Ingram Micro |
70 |
| Canada |
Roand Sugar |
Northrop Grumman |
73 |
| Egypt |
Louis Camilleri |
Altria Group |
23 |
| India |
Vikram Pandit |
Citigroup |
8 |
| India |
Indra Nooyi |
PepsiCo |
63 |
| India |
Ramani Ayer |
Hartford Financial Services |
82 |
| Ireland |
Daid O’Reilly |
Chevron |
4 |
| Ireland |
E. Neville Isdell |
Coca-Cola |
94 |
| Ireland |
Edmund Kelly |
Liberty Mutual Insurance |
95 |
| Morocco |
Alain Belda |
Alcoa |
71 |
Foreign born CEOs of Top 100 U.S. companies, as ranked by Forbes magazine. |
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