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Indian-born Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks’ CEO, is the second highest paid top boss in the US as per The Wall Street Journal’s list. An almunus of Delhi’s Air Force Public School, Arora first drew international attention as the chief business officer at Google, which he left in 2014 to head SoftBank with a reported compensation that was said to be a record for Japan.
Nikesh Arora’s total compensation reached $151.43 million, primarily from stock options, as per the list which also featured other Indian-descent executives among high earners. Among those of Indian-origin, 17 made it into the top 500—Shantanu Narayen of Adobe was at number 11 with a compensation of $44.93 million.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg earned $24.40 million, while Alphabet’s India-born head Sundar Pichai earned $8.80 million during the period under review.
Arora has been heading Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity company, since 2018. His compensation at Palo Alto Networks consists mostly of equity awards that include shares granted over three years.
Narayen, who was born and raised in Hyderabad, has been the CEO of Adobe since 2007 after joining the company in 1998.
Hock Tan of Broadcom topped the list with an earning of $162 million.
Ranked third, fourth, and fifth among Indian Americans were Sanjay Malhotra of Micron Technology (63rd, $25.28 million), Ajei Gopal of Ansys (66th, $24.63 million), and Reshma Kewalramani of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (118th, $20.59 million).
Others included Arvind Krishna of IBM (123rd, $20.40 million), Badrinarayn Kothandaraman of Enphase Energy (135th, $19.53 million), Sanjiv Lamba of Linde (143rd, $19.20 million), Surendralal Karsanbhai of Emerson electric (158th, $18.32 million), Anirudh Devgun of Cadence Design Systems (172nd, $17.34 million), Shankha Mitra of Wellflower (174th, $17.20 million), Sumit Roy of Realty Income (268th, $13.13 million), Satish Dhanasekaran of Keysight Technologies (319th, $10.75 million), Prahlad Singh of Rewity (357th, $9.13 million), Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (364th, $8.80 million), Udit Batra of Waters (367th, $8.74 million), and Sundarrajan Nagarajan of Nordson (389th, $6.98 million), the IANS reported.
