Fourth Indian-American Enters 2024 US Presidential Race

Scientist and entrepreneur, Shiva Ayyadurai announced to contest the 2024 US presidential election as an independent candidate. He is the fourth Indian-American aspiring for the post of US president in 2024.

Before him, Indian-American aerospace engineer Hirsh Vardhan Singh, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have declared their wish to contest the 2024 presidential election as Republican candidate.

The 59-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai was born in Mumbai. Ayyadurai left India in 1970 along with his parents and settled in Paterson, New Jersey.

Announcing his campaign bid recently, he  said he wants to serve America, beyond “Left” and “Right” to deliver solutions people need and deserve.

Ayyadurai is a Fulbright Scholar with four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2022, he expressed interest in taking up the position of Twitter’s chief executive officer.

According to his campaign website, he “invented email” when he was just 14 years old. He is the Founder and CEO of CytoSolve, Inc, which is discovering cures for major diseases from pancreatic cancer to Alzheimer’s.