T-Mobile & Molson Coors Appoint Indian-Origin CEOs Amid H-1B Clampdown

Amid tightening H-1B visa rules in the United States, two major American companies have appointed Indian-origin executives to lead their organisations. T-Mobile will see Srinivas “Srini” Gopalan become CEO on 1 November, succeeding Mike Sievert. An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Gopalan has held senior roles at Hindustan Unilever, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Capital One and Deutsche Telekom, and has driven T-Mobile’s 5G and AI initiatives.

Meanwhile, Molson Coors has named Rahul Goyal as CEO, effective 1 October. An engineering graduate from Mysore with an MBA from Denver, Goyal has spent over two decades with the company and will now steer it through declining demand and tariff pressures.

These appointments underscore the growing presence of Indian-origin leaders in top US companies, following Satya Nadella at Microsoft and Sundar Pichai at Alphabet.