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Another Indian could be in charge of a noteworthy innovation firm, WhatsApp.

Jan Koum, WhatsApp boss and co founder, posted on Facebook about his exit from the company. There is not one particular reason cited behind his decision to quit the firm.

Neeraj Arora joined the firm back in November 2011 when it had about 10 employees.  Arora has been credited to be the force behind the acquiring of WhatsApp by Facebook. He even convinced Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications to bundle unlimited WhatsApp use with a Rs 16 a month data plan.

Sources reveal Neeraj Arora is currently the fourth on the list to be the next WhatsApp CEO. Arora played a key role in the rise of WhatsApp.

This Monday, Koum, on his social media post, announced his exit from the company. According to sources, he was not happy with Facebook’s privacy and encryption policy and this disagreement possibly propelled  Jan Koum to quit the company.

In response, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to Koum in a comment saying, “Jan: I will miss working so closely with you. I’m grateful for everything you’ve done to help connect the world, and for everything you’ve taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people’s hands. Those values will always be at the heart of WhatsApp.”

 

Neeraj Arora has been associated with WhatsApp for the last seven years. He is an Indian School Of Business (ISB) Alumni and a former Google corporate development manager.

 

Who is Arora? He is an IIT grad as well as a management graduate with a degree from the Indian School of Business. He gave up his high profile job managing global M&A at Google to join one of Silicon Valley’s hottest starts ups. He began his career with Accellion, a cloud solutions company in 2000, soon after graduating from IIT. He was one of the earliest engineers at the company, building pieces of the core technology.

From Times Internet to Google, to WhatsApp, Arora successfully reached new heights and is definitely about to enter the next big phase of his life.

If  Neeraj Arora is confirmed as the CEO of WhatsApp, he will be in the league of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen other Indian origin CEOs, who are leading their respective companies in the technology market.

The man has come a long way with his numerous achievements.

 

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