Samir Arora
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Samir Arora in 2013
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| Born | November 5, 1965 |
| Alma mater | Harvard Business School, London Business School, BITS. |
| Occupation | Chairman of Information Capital |
| Known for | Co-founder & former CEO NetObjects, Founder former CEO of Mode Media |
Samir Arora (born November 5, 1965) is an American businessman and former CEO of Mode Media (formerly Glam Media) from 2003 to April 2016. He was CEO and Chairman of the web design company NetObjects, Inc. from 1995 to 2001.
Samir Arora was born in New Delhi, India. He studied electrical and electronic engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science. Arora has an EMP from INSEAD, attended Executive Education at Harvard Business School, and holds a diploma in Sales and Marketing from the London Business School.
Samir Arora worked at Apple in Software and New Media from 1982 to 1991. Arora wrote a white paper called "Information Navigation: The Future of Computing" in late 1986 while working directly for the Chairman & CEO of Apple, John Sculley. He left Apple to found the spin-off Rae Technology from Apple.
From 1992 to 1995, Arora was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rae Technology. In 1995 Samir Arora co-founded NetObjects, Inc. and together with a design and development team including David Kleinberg, Clement Mok and his brother, Sal Arora, created NetObjects Fusion, one of the first Web design products that allowed Web sites to be designed, structured and created without programming.
In 1997, after the launch of NetObjects Fusion, IBM invested approximately $100 million in a share exchange to buy 80% of NetObjects, corresponding to a valuation of around $150 million.NetObjects, Inc. went public on NASDAQ in 1999 with IBM staying the majority shareholder. From June 2003 to February 2004, Arora served as Chairman of the Board of Tickle, Inc., one of the first social networking sites founded in 1999. Tickle was acquired by Monster.com in May 2004.
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