Who is Jayshree Ullal, the richest Indian-origin self-made women entrepreneurs in Hurun India Rich List 2025

Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO of Arista Networks has topped the Hurun Rich List for 2025. Ullal has emerged as the richest self-made woman entrepreneur in the list. Ullal has a net worth of $5.7 billion, which is higher than that of Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) and Sundar Pichai (Google CEO). To recall, Google CEO Sundar Pichai entered the billionaire club this year and has a net worth of $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Born in London and Ullal was raised in Delhi. She the moved to the United States for her higher education. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University and later went ahead to pursue a Master’s in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.

Jayshree Ullal’s career graph

Ullal started her professional journey at AMD and Fairchild Semiconductor. She then joined Cisco Systems in 1993. At Cisco, she rose to become senior vice president and also played an important role in scaling the company’s data center business. Then, in 2008 she joined Arista Networks as the CEO. At that time it was a little-known cloud networking firm. However, under Ullal’s leadership the company transformed and become a global name in offer high-performance networking solutions for cloud data centers.

Jayshree Ulla’s net worth

As per the Hurun India Rich List 2025, Ulla has the net worth of Rs 50,170 crore which makes her the richest Indian-origin woman CEO. As mentioned above, Ullal joined Arista Networks in 2008 and the company recoded revenue of $7 billion in 2024 which is 20% higher as compared to the previous year, as reported by Forbes. Apart from Arista Network, Ullal is also on the board of directors of Snowflake which a cloud computing company which went public in 2020.As per Forbes, Ulla also owns around 3% of Arista’s stock. Apart from topping the Hurun India Rich List, Ullal also hold the 8th spot America’s richest self-made women list for the year 2025.

Ullal has consistently featured in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list and is celebrated as one of the few female CEOs leading a Fortune 500 company.