(This story originally appeared in on Dec 07, 2019)

Richest Indian CEOs: These Bosses Beat Google Head Pichai, Nadella; 2 Woman Among Top 10







Autoplay Autoplay 1 of 11 Born Rich Famous last names are a constant feature on rich lists. But in this age of the superstar CEO, even non-promoter names can be spotted on the list of the wealthiest. The IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2019 has compiled the names of the ‘richest non-promoter Indians.’



In this top 10 list, only one name totes resident Indian tag. The other nine are CEOs of Indian-origin, heading companies in the US.

All The Money In The World Thomas Kurian

Wealth = Rs 10,600 crore



Kurian joined Google in November 2018 as the CEO for Google Cloud. But the source of his wealth may well be the 22-year long stint at Oracle. His academic background is just as impressive with a bachelors from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University in his kitty. Wonder Woman Jayshree Ullal

Wealth = Rs 9,800 crore



Ullal is the president and CEO of US-based cloud-networking company Arista Networks, of which she owns about 5 per cent as per the wealth report. Before Arista, this tech CEO served various roles at Cisco Systems in a career spanning 15 years.



(Image: LinkedIn/Jayshree Ullal) Richie Rich Nikesh Arora

Wealth = Rs 6,000 crore



Arora may well be remembered as the former blue-eyed boy of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. His high profile entry and exit into the Japanese company is a well documented one. In another high powered move, Arora joined Palo Alto Networks last year, and once again made headlines with his $128 million pay packet. Crazy Rich Asian Ajay Banga

Wealth = Rs 5,200 crore



This year Banga completes a decade at Mastercard, having joined the payments technology and financial services company back in 2009. Banga, a Delhi University and IIM-A graduate, worked at Citibank, Nestle, and PepsiCo before joining Mastercard.

MUMBAI: IT giant Tata Consultancy Services TCS ), the largest private sector employer with a strength of over 4 lakh people on its payroll, has tweaked its health insurance policy to cover employees involved in a same-sex relationship. It would perhaps be the first Tata Group company to do so.In an email update to its employees, TCS announced the new changes which will benefit LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) employees. The new policy redefines 'spouse' as 'partner', thus broadening the scope to cover same-sex partners.Some progressive companies have already extended medical cover/family health insurance cover to same sex partners and these include RBS India, Citibank Capgemini India, among others. Some of these policies are extended to live-in partners as well. TCS global diversity head Preeti D'mello told TOI the new policy was formalized last week. The definition of spouse will now include same-sex partners irrespective of their marital status.Under the new policy, up to 50% of the cost of sex/gender reassignment surgery (up to a maximum of Rs 2 lakh) will be covered by insurance."Respect for the individual is one of our core TCS values, and built on this value, we continue our journey towards LGBTQ+ inclusion. We believe in building an organization where everyone feels included, involved and respected. We want to make the ecosystem fare and conducive for all," said D'mello, while adding that the firm has already received one application for gender reassignment surgery," D'mello said. KPMG India director and leader for inclusion and diversity Zainab Patel said: "When it comes to promoting LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual and many other terms) inclusion in the workplace, one of the issues that often provokes the most debate is the subject of employee benefits.To this effect, KPMG in India, has made fair amount of adjustments in the insurance cover and has extended references to 'spouse' to include 'partner' and clearly states that this may include partners of the same or opposite sex or live in partner."Patel said this has ensured that LGBTQIA+ employees' partners are treated equally as family members and beneficiaries in medical, insurance, relocation and relevant leave policies (e.g. parental, primary caregiver or compassionate leave).On the recent move by the government to pass the transgender person protection bill, Patel said it would be exemplary for India Inc to engage with medical insurance providers so as to make India medical insurance gender inclusive under which gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, etc. for transitioning transgender persons at the workplace is also covered within its ambit and also put in an effective complaints redressal mechanism in place.