Nikesh Arora, who serves as Palo Alto Networks’ CEO and chairman, is among the wealthiest non-executive officers in America, C-Suite Comp reveals. Despite the fact that the Indian-origin executives perform brilliantly across the globe, Silicon Valley particularly, only one Indian-American is considered among the ten highest paid CEOs of the United States and he is not Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., or Satya Nadella, the Microsoft’s CEO.
Nikesh Arora is listed 10th on C-Suite Comp’s compilation of mean paid CEOs in the US. The data analytics firm released two lists on Monday: This is one calculated on “total compensation granted” as at the year ending on December 31 of the year 2023 and the other on the “compensation actually paid. ”
There was no tech leader from the two largest search engine providers Google and Microsoft in the list; neither Sundar Pichai of Google nor Satya Nadella of Microsoft made it to the list while Microsoft had a profitable year partly due to OpenAI. But of all the people, Nikesh Arora appeared in both Lists. He earned the fourth position In ‘Highest Earning CEOs by Total Compensation Granted in 2023’ ranked $151. 4 million and tenth in “Highest paid CEOs Succesfully Paid in 2023” with $266. 4 million.
Chief executive officers or CEOs led the list, with Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, owning $1. In the calendar year 2023, the wholesale value would be 4 billion US dollars. Palantir Technologies’ Alexander Karp was the only second CEO in the year to cross $1 billion net worth.