18 November,2016 11:31 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
A look at some interesting facts and trivia about Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's vice-president of business development, who describes himself as all things business at WhatsApp
Neeraj Arora
Neeraj Arora
A look at some interesting facts and trivia about Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's vice-president of business development, who describes himself as "all things business at WhatsApp".
>> Neeraj Arora studied mechanical engineering at the Indian Institue of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi.
>> Arora received his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2006 from the Indian School of Business.
>> Before joining WhatsApp, Neeraj Arora, handled corporate development for Google Inc. He joined WhatsApp 4 years later, while the instant-messaging service was still a startup in 2011.
>> Neeraj Arora has been credited to be the force behind the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook.
>> According to a leading Indian news daily, Neeraj Arora conviced Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications to bundle unlimited WhatsApp use with a Rs 16 a month data plan.
>> According to his Linked-In page Neeraj Arora was part of the Investments and Corporate Strategy teams at Times Internet Limited, a subsidiary of the Times of India Group, and an engineer and "self learnt hacker" at mobile file sharing company Accellion Inc.
