US CEOs Share Experience Of Coming Together To Help India During Covid Crisis
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A number of top American CEOs gathered over a video call on a weekend that laid the grounds of one of the largest ever humanitarian relief efforts collectively carried out by the country's private sector.
Top American CEOs, who were at the forefront of galvanising the business community to help India during its COVID-19 crisis early this year, on Wednesday reflected upon the outpouring of support for their efforts to save lives in India.
"I will always remember the weekend in the spring when Julie Sweet (CEO of Accenture) and others gathered us together, we met by video and we talked about what was such a terrible tragedy and urgent crisis," Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said during the India Ideas Summit of US-India Business Council.
A number of top American CEOs gathered over a video call on a weekend that laid the grounds of one of the largest ever humanitarian relief efforts collectively carried out by the country's private sector.
"As we were seeing the rising Covid rates in India, we saw that people's lives literally hung in the balance. We saw what it meant for our own employees, some of whom tragically died as a result of that terrible time," he said.
