{"id":17495,"date":"2017-07-03T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2017-07-03T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:41:38","slug":"indian-american-winners-of-great-immigrants-award-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/indian-american-winners-of-great-immigrants-award-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Indian Americans to Receive Pride of America Award as Great Immigrants of the Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Independence Day on July 4 is a celebration for the Indian American Community too. The ceremonious hoisting of the American flag will be followed by felicitation of two Indian Americans as Great Immigrants of the Year 2017 in USA. They are former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Adobe Chief Shantanu Narayen among the 38 immigrants selected for the Pride of America Award.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Institutionalized in 2006, the Pride of America Award recognizes great immigrants in USA for their remarkable contributions to the socio-economic progress of the country.<\/strong> Among the Great Immigrants of 2016 were four Indian Americans, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai; California University\u2019s Professor of English, Bharati Mukherjee; PBS Newshour\u2019s senior journalist Hari Sreenivasan, and Vikram Malhotra, Chairman of the Americas at McKinsey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Adobe-CEO-Shantanu-Narayen-and-Dr-Vivek-Murthy-are-Indian-Americans-among-Great-Immigrants-Award-2017-Winners.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17502 size-full\" title=\"Two Indian Americans to Receive Pride of America Award as Great Immigrants of the Year 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Adobe-CEO-Shantanu-Narayen-and-Dr-Vivek-Murthy-are-Indian-Americans-among-Great-Immigrants-Award-2017-Winners.jpg\" alt=\"Great Immigrants Award 2017, Immigrants in USA, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Dr Vivek Murthy, Indians in USA, NRI news\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the 2017 Great Immigrants and the Pride of America Award winners, Shantanu Narayen is the Indian American CEO of Adobe Systems from Hyderabad, India. Born in Mumbai and brought up in Hyderabad, <strong>Shantanu Narayen was one of the few CEOs who Indian PM Narendra Modi had a roundtable with during his recent visit to President Donald Trump in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/air-india-flights-from-washington-to-delhi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington DC<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. He was appointed a member of former President Barack Obama\u2019s Management Advisory Board in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>He did graduation in electronics engineering at Osmania University <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-hyderabad-hyd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyderabad<\/a><\/span>, studied MBA at the University of California Berkeley,<\/strong> and earned a MS degree in computer science from Ohio\u2019s Bowling Green State University. Adobe Systems\u2019 CEO Shantanu Narayen, who started his career at Apple, gets an annual salary of $875,000\u00a0currently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is another Indian American among the 2017 Great Immigrants and the Pride of America Award winners. <strong>Born to a migrant couple from Karnataka and brought up in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-from-miami-mia-to-india-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a><\/span>, Florida, Dr. Vivek Murthy is the founder and president of Doctors for Obama or Doctors for America.<\/strong> A Harvard University graduate from Boston and a Doctor of Medicine from Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Murthy is the youngest surgeon general in the history of USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It was Dr. Vivek Murthy who united all American doctors to save the United States from a critical health crisis resulting from <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-to-control-prescription-of-painkillers-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">overdose of painkillers<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong> He runs several educational programs and health campaigns in the Indian state of Karnataka where his parents belong to. He also co-founded Swasthya Community Health Partnership\u00a0in 1997, aiming to help rural Indian women become health care providers at the basic level. \u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The 2017 Great Immigrants and Pride of America Award winners represent more than 30 counties of origin. They contribute to the progress of America in such niches as education, economy and international peace<\/strong> in their individual ways. The 38 Great Immigrants of 2017, including the above-mentioned Indian Americans, will be honored with a full-page public service announcement in The New York Times and an online public awareness program. \u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17504 size-full\" title=\"Grab special deals on US to India flights at Indian Eagle travel website\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/book-cheap-flights-to-India.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Eagle travel, cheap flights to India from USA, cheap US-India flight tickets \" width=\"657\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Dr. Vivek Murthy and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will be felicitated along with other winners of USA\u2019s Great Immigrants Award 2017 tomorrow, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/new-york-indian-ravinder-bansal-takes-solo-flight-from-buffalo-to-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ravinder Bansal from New York<\/a><\/span><\/strong> will embark on a solo flight across 18 countries and 34 airports to raise $750,000 for a cancer hospital in his hometown in India. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Independence Day on July 4 is a celebration for the Indian American Community too. 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