Subrah S. Iyar (born June 11, 1957) is an

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n origin. He co-founded and was CEO of

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provider

WebEx Webex by Cisco is an American company that develops and sells web conferencing, videoconferencing and contact center as a service applications. It was founded as WebEx in 1995 and taken over by Cisco Systems in 2007. Its headquarters are in San ...

until its acquisition by

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in 2007 for US $3.2 billion. He is an early investor in and an advisor to

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Early life

Subrah S. Iyar was born in Mumbai, and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). After graduation in 1982, he moved to the United States. He received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the

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Career

Beginning in 1983, he worked for 6 years for

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, where he was instrumental in creating the first OS licensing business in the Newton Group. From 1989 to 1995, he worked at

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

, where he directed product marketing and OEM sales management within the LAN software and systems group. From October 1995 until November 1996, he was president of Future Labs, a subsidiary of

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. He was vice president of sales, marketing, and business development at Teleos Research, which was acquired by

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. Iyar became an entrepreneur in 1996, when he founded

in partnership with Min Zhu. The founding of the company was fueled by an interest in

. Min Zhu, a

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-trained System Engineer had been struggling to develop a web-conferencing tool, when he met Iyer, who went into business together. On May 29, 2007,

acquired WebEx for $3.2 billion. After a 6-year break spending time with his 2 daughters, in 2012, Iyar co-founded and became and CEO of Moxo. Moxo is a digital client interaction platform that received funding from Cisco and

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from Japan.

References

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