Jayshree Ullal topped Hurun India Rich List 2025

Exam-focused facts from the 30 December 2025 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Jayshree Ullal, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arista Networks (Arista), topped the Hurun India Rich List 2025 of the richest professional managers of Indian-origin.
She surpassed Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai of Google in personal wealth with an estimated net worth of $5.7 billion.
She joined Arista in September 2008 and has led the company as its CEO for 17 years.
She secured the second rank among the top five generation women wealth creators under the Candere Hurun Indian Women Leaders List 2025.
She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering in 2025 in recognition of her professional contributions.
Her professional career includes previous roles at Cisco Systems, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Fairchild Semiconductor.