Sept. 23: Four Indian Americans figure in Forbes magazine's annual list of the 400 richest Americans, with Microsoft founder, Mr Bill Gates, topping for the 17th year in a row.
The Indian Americans on the US business magazine’s list of the super rich are Syntel’s Mr Bharat Desai (252), venture capitalist, Mr Kavitark Ram Shriram (288), software mogul, Mr Romesh Wadhwani (290), and Sun Microsystems co-founder and Mr Vinod Khosla (308).
Kenya-born Mr Desai, who spent his teens in India to earn an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, (IIT-B) saw his family wealth dip a bit from $1.65 billion to $1.6 billion. Mr Shriram, a Madras University graduate with an MBA from University of Michigan, found no change in his fortunes totalling $1.45 billion.