Cola queen Indra Nooyi is not the only person of Indian origin heading a behemoth like PepsiCo in the US — she is in company with five others at the top of the latest Fortune league of American corporate giants. Besides PepsiCo , persons of Indian origin are running another five companies figured in the expanded Fortune 1000 list of the biggest firms in the US, published in the latest issue of US-based business magazine.

While PepsiCo tops the list of the Indian-run firms in the US at 63rd rank, it also features Hartford Financial Services, Rohm & Haas, Sigma-Aldrich, Tellabs and LSI Corp, all of which have an India-born as the chief executive officer. The US-based cola giant is led by Indra Nooyi as its president and CEO, a position she assumed last year.

The list also has at 82nd rank, Hartford, a diversified insurance and financial services firm, which has an Indian Institute of Technology -Mumbai alumni Ramani Ayer as chairman, president and CEO. Rohm & Haas, a US-based global specialty materials company, is also led by an another IIT graduate, Rajiv L Gupta, as the company’s chairman, president and CEO. The company has been ranked 292 in the Fortune list published in the April 30 issue of the magazine.

Joining ranks with them in the exclusive club of Indian origin CEOs of Fortune-listed US firms are chemicals maker Sigma-Aldrich’s Jai Nagarkatti, semiconductors and storage device firm LSI Corporation’s Abhijit Y Talwalkar and telecom equipment maker Tellabs’ Krish A Prabhu, who is the third IIT-alumni on the list.

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