Background
Subrah S. Iyar was born and brought up in Mumbai, in a Tamil family.
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He did his schooling in Mumbai and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology. Iyar chose to take the path of an entrepreneur in 1996, when he founded WebEx in partnership with Minister Zhu.
Career
On completion of his graduation he moved to the United States in 1982. He worked with Intel, Apple Incorporated., Quarterdeck, and Teleos Research prior to the establishment of WebEx. The founding of the company by Subrah Iyar was fuelled by a new-found interest in web conferencing.
Minister Zhu, a Stanford-trained System Engineer had been struggling to develop a web-conferencing tool.
WebEx struggled to make a profit in its early days, largely because of low bandwidth. However, with the advancement of technology and the shift to broadband technology, it began to emerge as a potent competitor with clients such as Hoover"s Online, Oracle and Tibco Software.
WebEx went on to receive its first funding of $25 million in December 1999. As a result of the new ideas propounded by Subrah Iyer, 2000 became a honeymoon year for WebEx.
The revenues crossed the million mark and Subrah Iyar"s own Netto worth rocketed from a paltry $450,000 in January 2000 to $129 million in November 2000.
When enquired about it in an interview at a later stage, Subrah Iyar remarked: "lieutenant didn"t get too scary, because I knew we had done everything based on fundamentals. You always have a feeling of uncertainty. But it was never a feeling of terror."
In 2003, when Microsoft purchased conferencing company Placeware it was thought to be the end of the road for Subrah Iyar and WebEx.
However, WebEx survived and completed a $45 million acquisition of Intranets.com in 2005.
In fact, as per the company website, more than 3.5 million people use Cisco’s WebEx products every month to communicate and collaborate online. On March 15, 2007, Cisco Systems purchased WebEx for $3.2 billion.
Moxtra is a mobile content collaboration app that received its first round of funding by Cisco and KDDI from Japan.
Achievements
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He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of WebEx which has recently merged with Cisco Systems. In 2012, Iyar became Company-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Moxtra, Incorporated. While working at WebEx, Iyer noted the need for the adhoc meeting for people on the move, it was this need that lead to the inspiration of the Moxtra appendix
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