PM Modi meets CEOs on final day of US visit: List of business leaders

Narendra Modi met top US and Indian business leaders in Washington on Friday, the final day of his state visit.

Updated on: Jun 23, 2023, 22:50:05 IST

By Shishir Gupta, New Delhi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US and Indian business leaders in Washington on Friday, the final day of a state visit marked by pledges of deeper US-India cooperation on areas including space, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

Alphabet CEO Sunder Pichai along with his wife Anjali Pichai arrives to attend the State Dinner at the White House in Washington DC, on Thursday. (ANI Photo)

The top business leaders, including CEOs of Boeing, Amazon and Google, gathered in the East Room of the White for the meeting with the Indian prime minister.

President Joe Biden rolled out the red carpet for Modi on Thursday, declaring after about 2 -1/2 hours of talks that their countries' economic relationship was "booming." Trade has more than doubled over the past decade.

Modi will continue talks with top US officials during a lunch at the State Department with Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Asian American to hold the No. 2 position in the White House, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Modi, who has appealed to global companies to "Make in India," will then address business leaders at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

Following have confirmed their participation:

Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce

Jeff Zients, Chief of Staff, US

Lael Brainard, Director, National Economic Council, US

Eric Garcetti, Ambassador of the United States to India

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs

Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor

Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Foreign Secretary

Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Ambassador of India to the United States

Rajesh Singh, Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator

Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google

Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI

Tim Cook, CEO, Apple

Revathi Advaithi, CEO, Flex

Lisa Su, CEO, AMD

Thomas Tull, Founder, Tulco LLC

Hemant Taneja, CEO and Managing Director, General Catalyst

Mark Douglas, President and CEO, FMC Corporation

Will Marshall, CEO, Planet Labs

CAPT Sunita Williams, U.S. Navy (Ret.), NASA Astronaut

Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & MD, Reliance Industries

Nikhil Kamath, Co-Founder, Zerodha & True Beacon

Vrinda Kapoor, Co-Founder, 3rdiTech

US Delegation

Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Kurt Campbell, Coordinator for Asia, NSC

Tarun Chhabra, Senior Director for Technology, NSC

Eileen Laubacher, Senior Director for South Asia, NSC

Helena Fu, Director for Technology Alliances, NSC

Anthony Renzulli, Director for India, NSC

Edward “Ted” Dean, Counselor to the Secretary, Department of Commerce

Jenny Kaplan, Senior Advisor

Elizabeth Kelly, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, NEC

Jana Plat, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement

India Delegation

Vani Sarraju Rao, Additional Secretary (Americas)

Sripriya Ranganathan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India

Arindam Bagchi, Additional Secretary and Official Spokesperson

Deepak Mittal, Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister

Hiren Joshi, Officer on Special Duty

Vivek Kumar, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Vipin Kumar, Deputy Secretary

Nidhi Tewari, Deputy Secretary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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