Two rich Indian women in US’s top 50

India-born Neerja Sethi and Jayshree Ullal have made it to the Forbes list of America’s 50 most successful and self-made women. Neerja is ranked 14th with a net worth of $1.1 billion while Jayshree Ullal is ranked 30th with a net worth of $470 million.

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Internationally reputed Forbes Magazine for the first time inagurated “Most Successful, Self-Made Women in the US” list. Elizabeth Anne Holmes, CEO of blood diagnostics company Theranos is ranked one in the prestigious list with a net worth of $4.5 billion.

Neerja Sethi co-founded an IT consulting and outsourcing company, Syntel, with her husband, billionaire Bharat Desai. Jayshree Ullal took over computer networking company Arsita Networks in California as president and CEO in 2008, when it had less than 50 employees and transformed it to one of Silicon Valley’s most valuable networking firms by 2014.