Belonging to the Indian origin, Nikkesh Arora, Vice President and Ex- Google executive has been paid $135 million in the year to March by Japan’s telecom carrier, SoftBank.
Arora gave up his high profile job at the most prestigious search engine last year in October to join SoftBank.
“The amount included a one-time, sign-on bonus for the Indian-born 47-year-old, according to the Nikkei business daily and the Asahi Shimbun.” As published in The times of India.
16.556 yen ($135 million) were paid to Nikesh Arora who has been repeatedly appreciated by the company’s billionaire founder Masayoshi Son, according to local reports.
“In order for us to become a SoftBank that is competitive in the global market place, we had to strengthen our management team, Fortunately, Nikkesh Arora joined the SoftBank group. He is the top candidate to be my successor. He and I will team up to further expand our company,” Son affirmed to his shareholders.
Nikkesh was appointed as the President and the Chief Operating Officer on Friday at the share holders’ meeting.
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