Meet Indian-Born Nikesh Arora, Second-Highest Paid CEO In The US
Indian-born Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has landed the second spot on The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 list of highest-paid CEOs in the US. With a compensation of $151.43 million, the 56-year-old’s earnings have surpassed those of many tech giants, like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai.
Here are some facts about Nikesh AroraNikesh Arora was born on February 9, 1968, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. His father served in the Indian Air Force. He studied at The Air Force School (Subroto Park) before graduating in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi in 1989. After a brief stint at Wipro, he went to the US for an MBA at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
His work journey started in 1992 when he joined Fidelity Investments, where he took on roles in finance and technology management. Eventually, he became the Vice President of Fidelity Technologies. In 2000, he established T-Motion, a subsidiary of Deutsche..