LinkedIn releases 48 Indian profiles that are being extensively followed by users

LinkedIn released profiles of 48 people under 6 categories. These profiles have the most numbers of followers.

CEO Category

The most followed profile is Prime Minister of Indian, Narendra Modi with 1.8M followers. Followed by

1. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, CMD, Biocon Limited
2. Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal
3. Santosh Desai, Managing Director & CEO, Futurebrands
4. Anil Sardana, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Power
5. M.S Unnikrishnan, Managing Director & CEO, Thermax
6. Anant Gupta, President & CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd
7. Rekha M Menon, Chairman & MD, Accenture in India

Technology Category

The profile that toped this list is Rajan Anandan, VP, Google South East Asia & India, followed by

1. Girish Mathrubootham, Founder & CEO, Freshdesk
2. Suman Bose, Managing Director & CEO, Siemens Industry Software India
3. Manu Kumar Jain, India Head, Xiaomi
4. Abhinav Lal, Co-Founder & CTO, Practo

Human Resources

1. Prabir Jha, Global Chief People Officer, Cipla topped this list followed by
2. Anuranjita Kumar, MD, Chief Human Resources Officer, Citi South Asia
3. Nathan SV, Human Resources Leader, Deloitte
4. Vikash Modi, President – Human Capital Management, YES BANK
5. Sanjay Jorapur, Chief Human Resources Officer, Hero MotoCorp
6. Srinivas Chunduru, Executive Director, Piramal Group
7. Harjeet Khanduja, Vice President Human Resources, Reliance Jio
8. Yuvaraj Srivastava, Chief Human Resource Officer, MakeMyTrip.com
9. Srikanth Balachandran, Global Chief Human Resources Officer, Airtel

Finance Category

1. Richard Rekhy, CEO, KPMG India
2. Amit Shah, President & Country Head, YES BANK
3. Anup Vikal, Chief Finance Officer, Snapdeal
4. Antony Jacob, CEO, Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company Ltd
5. Rajiv Sabharwal, Executive Director, ICICI Bank
6. Navita Yadav, Managing Director, Asia, Vistra Group
7. Pooja Aggarwal, CEO, Ordinosolution
8. Tapan Singhel, Managing Director & CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd

Marketing & Advertising Category

1. Simeran Bhasin, Co-Founder, Ragtagger Lifestyle Pvt Ltd
2. Kashyap Vadapalli, Chief Marketing Officer, Pepperfry.com
3. Rajiv Dingra, Founder & CEO, WATMedia Pvt Ltd
4. Karthik Srinivasan, National Lead, Social@Ogilvy
5. Gaurav Mehta, Chief Marketing Officer, OLX South Asia
6. Kunal Jeswani, Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy India
7. Sourav Shah, Head of Digital Marketing and CRM, Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd.
8. Charulata Ravi Kumar, CEO, India, Razorfish

Internet Category

1. Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO, YourStory Media
2. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder, One97 & Paytm
3. Kunal Shah, Founder & CEO, FreeCharge
4. Alok Kejriwal, Co-Founder & CEO, Games2win India Pvt Ltd
5. Sriharsha Majety, CEO & Co-Founder, Swiggy
6. Sameer Parwani, CEO, CouponDunia
7. Peyush Bansal, CEO, lenskart.com
8. Manu Agarwal, Founder & CEO, Naaptol.com