New York: Five Indian-Americans are among the richest in the US, according to a Forbes list of 400 people which has been topped by Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates for the 23rd year in a row.
Symphony Technology founder Romesh Wadhwani, co-founder of outsourcing firm Syntel Bharat Neerja Desai, Airline veteran Rakesh Gangwal, entrepreneur John Kapoor and Silicon Valley angel investor Kavitark Ram Shriram have featured in Forbes’ ‘The Richest People In America 2016’ list.
The list has been topped by 60-year-old Gates who has a net worth of 81 billion dollars.
Gates keeps pushing to save lives in the developing world through efforts to eliminate polio, attack malaria and expand childhood vaccinations as head of the world’s largest private charitable foundation the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Forbes said.
Wadhwani, 69, has been ranked 222nd on the list with a net worth of three billion dollars.
The IIT Mumbai and Carnegie Mellon alumnus is the chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group, an empire of 17 data, technology, healthcare and analytics companies that together take in more than USD 2.8 billion in annual revenue, Forbes said.
