Nikesh Arora (born February 9, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive.[2] Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google.[3] He was the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role of CEO and chairman at Palo Alto Networks.[2]
In 2000, Arora established T-Motion, a subsidiary within Deutsche Telekom, "providing value-added services to the 3G Services of Deutsche Telekom." A few years after, in 2002, T-Motion was integrated into T-Mobile's core services.[citation needed][7]
Arora joined Google in 2004.[8] He held multiple senior operating leadership roles at Google, as vice president, Europe operations from 2004 to 2007, president Europe, Middle East and Africa from 2007 to 2009, and president, global sales operations and business development from 2009 to 2010.[9] He was senior vice president and chief business officer of Google Inc. (Google) since January 2011 until July 2014.[citation needed]
Arora was president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Corp. from 2014 to 2016[10][11] receiving total compensation over $200 million,[12] a Japanese record at the time.[13]
Arora was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile, Bharti Airtel, Europe[14] and serves as a Trustee at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, California.[15]
Since 2007, Arora has been a senior advisor to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm.[16]
From 2001 to 2004, he was chief marketing officer of the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002.[citation needed]
Arora began his career at Fidelity Investments in 1992, holding a variety of finance and technology management positions, ultimately serving as vice president, finance of Fidelity Technologies.[17]
