India’s AI pioneers across global companies

The appointment of Amar Subramanya at Apple as vice president of AI is critical for the company’s roll out of its new version of voice assistant Siri. Here is a look at other Indian-origin leaders hea

Dec 09, 2025, 11:20 IST1 min

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The appointment of Amar Subramanya at Apple as the new vice president of Artificial Intelligence swings the spotlight back on Indian-origin workforce leading AI teams across key players in the sector.

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Amar Subramanya, Vice president of AI, Apple. He will be working on an “AI-forward Siri”-the Apple voice assistant, which has been under development for over a year now.

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Vishal Shah, Vice president, AI Products, Meta. He will be helping Meta's AI products expand for commerce-specific use cases in addition to voice and vision.

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Srinivas Narayanan, CTO of B2B applications. He is responsible for building out ChatGPT and API, and supporting infrastructure.

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Prabhakar Raghavan, Chief technologist, Alphabet. He drives strategic technical decisions and innovation at the company.

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Rohit Prasad, Senior vice president and head scientist, Artificial general intelligence, Amazon. He is responsible for AI integration across Amazon's core businesses and developed new AI models at the company including Titan and Olympus.

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Shilpa Kolhatkar, Global head of AI Nations, Nvidia. She drives business development, evangelism, strategic partnerhsip plans and industry engagement in new markets for Nvidia.

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Aparna Ramani, Vice president of engineering, Meta. She is responsible for data infrastructure organisation at Meta, leading a team of 700 engineers.