{"id":276,"date":"2006-06-08T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/08\/six-indians-in-silicon-valley%e2%80%99s-top-100\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T07:55:13","slug":"six-indians-in-silicon-valley%e2%80%99s-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/08\/six-indians-in-silicon-valley%e2%80%99s-top-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Indians in Silicon Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News<\/strong>, on Monday, have independently listed <strong>six Indians <\/strong>among Silicon Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>100 highest-paid executives<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Leading the group is <strong>Abhijit Talwalkar<\/strong>, President and CEO of<strong> LSI Logic<\/strong>, who earned a phenomenal<strong> $22.235 million in 2005.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Even at that compensation level, <strong>Talwalkar <\/strong>is only at No 10 on the list, which is led by Yahoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CEO <strong>Terry Semel<\/strong>, who earned $56 million in salary, bonuses and stock options. Following Talwalkar in the <strong>Desi list is Shantanu Narayen<\/strong>, president and COO of Adobe Systems, maker of the popular Photoshop and Acrobat Reader software. His earnings were $11 million for the financial year 2005. He comes in at <strong>No 33.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Close on his heels at <strong>No 35 <\/strong>is HP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quiet achiever <strong>Vyomesh Joshi,<\/strong> who was once tipped to replace Carly Fiorina as the tech giant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CEO after she was unceremoniously sacked by the Board. His earnings for the year were $10.8 million. Joshi is Executive Vice-President of the most profitable division at <strong>HP<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Imaging and Printing Group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajiv Dutta,<\/strong> who is Internet auctioneer <strong>eBay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/strong>executive vice-president and chief financial officer is ranked at<strong> No 38,<\/strong> with total earnings of $10.6 million. A distant No 84 is <strong>Sanjay Mehrotra<\/strong>, who pocketed a cool $7 million. Mehrotra, who is currently executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Sandisk, actually had a 36 per cent drop over his last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earnings, the report said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1034141\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News, on Monday, have independently listed six Indians among Silicon Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 100 highest-paid executives. Leading the group is Abhijit Talwalkar, President and CEO of LSI Logic, who earned a phenomenal $22.235 million in 2005. Even at that compensation level, Talwalkar is only at No 10 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,3],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}