Nikesh Arora

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Mr. Nikesh Arora serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Palo Alto Networks. Mr. Arora serves as Chairman at Headspin. He formerly served as President & Senior Vice President at Google Impact Challenge. He also served as Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Management. He serves as Board Member at Moveworks. He has been a Senior Advisor to Silver Lake since 2007. He is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Corp., Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Yahoo Japan Corp. He was previously Vice Chairman of SoftBank Corp. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google. Previously, he was Chief Marketing Officer and member of the Management board of T-Mobile. Prior to that, he worked at Deutsche Telekom, where he founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. Earlier in his career, Mr. Arora was part of the asset management team at Putnam Investments focusing on the technology and telecom industries on a global basis and held a finance and technology management position at Fidelity Investments. In July 2007, Mr. Arora was appointed to the board of Aviva PLC as an independent non-executive director. He is also a Patron of the NSPCC Stop Organised Abuse Board. Mr. Arora holds an M.B.A. from Northeastern University, an M.S. in Finance from Boston College and a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) in Varanasi.