Two Indian American women— Jayshree Ullal and Neerja Sethi — feature among Forbes 2026 America’s Richest Self-Made Women headed by Diane Hendricks, Cofounder of ABC Supply with a net worth of $21.7 billion.
“Rocket ships. AI chips. Chinese food. Clothing. Construction. Chatbots. America’s self-made women billionaires have found dozens of ways to prosper,” noted Forbes.
In its first listing focusing just on those with 10-figure fortunes, Forbes found 43 self-made queens of capitalism, up from 38 a year ago as many of their businesses hit new highs.
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Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista Networks with a net worth of $6.8 billion is ranked 7th on the list. Ullal has been president and CEO of the computer networking firm, since 2008. The publicly-traded company recorded revenue of $9 billion in 2024, up nearly 30% from the prior year.
She is on the board of directors of Snowflake, a cloud computing company that went public in 2020. Ullal owns about 3% of Arista’s stock, some of which is earmarked for her two children, niece and nephew.
Her previous stints were at Cisco Systems, semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Ranked 32, Neerja Sethi with a net worth of $1.2 billion cofounded IT consulting and outsourcing firm Syntel with her husband Bharat Desai in 1980 and took it public in 1997.
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French IT firm Atos SE bought Syntel for $3.4 billion in 2018. Sethi got an estimated $510 million for her stake. Sethi served as an executive at Syntel from its founding until its sale in 2018.
Her husband Bharat Desai is also a billionaire; they met in the U.S. while working for IT firm Tata Consultancy Services.
The couple started Syntel in their apartment in Troy, Michigan with an initial investment of just $2,000.
Neerja Sethi graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and her MBA from Delhi University, and has also received her M.S. in Computer Science from Oakland University.