Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Palo Alto Networks
Nikesh Arora is the Chief Executive Officer of Palo Alto Networks, having joined the company in June of 2018. Before joining the company, Arora served as President and Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Group Corp., and in a wide number of positions at Google Inc. over a 10-year span, including as its Chief Business Officer. Prior to Google, Arora was Chief Marketing Officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG, and Chief Executive Officer and Founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002. Arora holds an MS from Northeastern University, an MS from Boston College and a B.Tech. from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.