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In what would be a first in the annals of top-level international headhunting, two Indian-origin tech whizzes are said to be in contention to lead Microsoft. 
 
Close on the heels of news that the Microsoftboard has almost settled on insider Satya Nadella as CEO to replace Steve Ballmer, a tech blog caused a flutter on Friday by reporting that the hiring team is also talking to Sundar Pichai, who heads Google's Chrome and apps division, and who, like Nadella, is also a product of the Indian eco-system. 
 
"SiliconANGLE has confirmed that Sundar Pichai is the top choice for the CEO position of Microsoft according to sources close to the hiring team. According to sources, negotiations are in full swing with Pichai," the tech blog reported on Friday, adding that Pichai "is the leading external candidate and is in discussions with the hiring committee." 
 
SiliconANGLE's editor, John Furrier, tweeted that talks with Pichai "are so tight under wraps" that it could explain why Pichai's name had so far not surfaced for the CEO's job. Furrier again tweeted that a second source had just confirmed that Pichai "is the dark horse coming out frontrunner". But reputed tech writer Kara Swisher, who was the first to put out Nadella's name on Friday, tweeted that her sources were clear Pichai was not in the running. 
 
Despite the emergence of a dark horse, most Silicon Valley tech writers and pundits believe Nadella is still the frontrunner. The race cannot get bigger than this for India's technology talent: a storied global tech giant looking at two Indian-origin executives to lead the company at a time when it is losing mindshare to rivals Apple and Google and needs urgently to reinvent itself. 
 
An alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, with an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton, Pichai has headed various key Google divisions, from Google Chrome and Chrome OS, to overseeing development of Google Drive and apps for Gmail and Google Maps. Google added Android to his portfolio last year. 
 
Under Pichai, Chrome has had an extraordinary run. In May 2012, Chrome became the most-used browser in the world, surpassing Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which had been the leading browser ever since it ousted Netscape from that position in the late 1990s. 
 
Pichai's big advantage is the huge successes he's had in the consumer space of internet and mobile devices -- where Microsoft has lagged behind and needs to play serious catch-up with the likes of Google. Nadella's experience is mostly in enterprise - but his big plus is the 22 years and the variety of roles he's had in Microsoft, a sprawling giant of 100,000 people (to be 132,000 once Nokia's mobile phone business is merged) that doesn't accept outsiders in top jobs easily. 
 
Although few mainline outlets, much less Microsoft or Pichai himself, remotely addressed the online scuttlebutt bringing Pichai into the Microsoft mix, the story sent a frisson of excitement in the fast-paced tech world, with multiple blogs reproducing the story, setting Twitter alight. 
 
Incidentally, Pichai was in the news some months back when Twitter attempted to poach him from Google, and he was said to have been enticed back with a $50 million bonus. 
 
Pichai, who was born in Chennai, is only 42 to Nadella's 47, and has a relatively thin resume, having joined Google only in 2004. But he has his fans in the tech world, as does Nadella. 
 
"Microsoft could really move the ball down the field with Sundar Pichai in creating a new open operating system model for cloud, mobile, and social," SiliconAngle quoted Dave Vellante, chief analyst at Wikibon, as saying. "The market has been looking for a CEO who can balance the role of leading the enterprise transformation while keeping that consumer momentum with Xbox and reboot mobile. Pichai is the total package of technology leadership and business acumen." 
 
Pichai and Nadella are just two among thousands of Indians who are making a difference to the global tech industry. There's a saying that in Microsoft, Google and just about every other tech company in the US, if you throw a stone, there's a very good chance you'll hit an Indian. Vinod Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems and remains one of the biggest investors in the US. Romesh Wadhwani founded several successful tech ventures, and now runs the Symphony Technology Group, a private equity firm. Gururaj Deshpande founded Sycamore Networks and the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT; Pradeep Sindhu, Juniper Networks; Bharat Desai, Syntel; and Padmasree Warrior is the chief technology & strategy officer at Cisco. Meanwhile, Nikesh Arora is senior VP and chief business officer at Google and Vivek Gundotra, who's called Google's Social Czar, is the man behind Google+. 
 
Many of these names are from the IITs, as indeed are thousands of others in senior positions at US tech companies. It is estimated that around 60,000 IIT alumni currently live in the US. The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani is another institution that has played a significant role in US techdom. Sanjay Mehrotra, who co-founded SanDisk, and Preetish Nijhawan, who co-founded Akamai, are both BITS alumni. 
 
A study by the US-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found that Indians account for 33.2% of immigrant-founded engineering and technology companies started between 2006 and 2012. That number was up from 26% in 2005. "Significantly, Indians have founded more such companies than immigrants from the next top seven immigrant-founder-sending countries combined," the report said. 
 
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