India-born former Google executive Nikesh Arora has been appointed the president of Japan’s telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp that paid the “rising star” a whopping USD 135 million for the financial year 2014.
Mr. Arora was appointed company president and chief operating officer at a general meeting of shareholders in Tokyo on Friday.
In a management reshuffle in May, Mr. Arora — then investments head — was named as a potential successor to company chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son.
He was previously chief business officer of Google Inc., which he entered in 2004 as a telecom industry analyst before being recruited by Mr. Son.
Published - June 20, 2015 05:32 pm IST
