Meet Nikesh Arora: Indian-American tech non-founder CEO becomes billionaire

Meet Nikesh Arora: Indian-American tech non-founder CEO becomes billionaire

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Dubai: For most billionaires on the world’s rich list, their wealth and net worth comes from entrepreneurship and their own businesses. It is rare to see non-founder tech CEOs breaking into the billionaire’s club – and that’s exactly what 55-year-old Nikesh Arora has done. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Arora, who is currently CEO at Palo Alto, is not the first to do this – Tim Cook, Apple CEO is another non-founder CEO who is also a billionaire. Arora has been steadily amassing wealth, and it’s all thanks to his successful management strategies, based on the results the Indian-American has given each of the companies he worked for.

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Nikesh Arora is an electrical engineer graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) in Varanasi and did a short stint at Wipro before moving to the US for studies. He started his finance career at Fidelity Investments before starting and later managing T-Motion at German telecoms firm T-Mobile. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Arora is known to bag very high compensation packages. At Google, where he started working in 2004, he became the firm's highest-paid executive after getting a compensation package worth about $51 million in 2012.