Subrah Iyar

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.[2] He received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.[3]

Beginning in 1983, he worked for 6 years for Apple Inc., where he was instrumental in creating the first OS licensing business in the Newton Group.[3][4]

From 1989 to 1995, he worked at Intel, where he directed product marketing and OEM sales management within the LAN software and systems group.[3]

From October 1995 until November 1996, he was president of Future Labs, a subsidiary of Quarterdeck Office Systems.[3][4]

He was vice president of sales, marketing, and business development at Teleos Research, which was acquired by Autodesk.[5][3][4]

Iyar became an entrepreneur in 1996, when he founded WebEx in partnership with Min Zhu. The founding of the company was fueled by an interest in web conferencing. Min Zhu, a Stanford University-trained System Engineer had been struggling to develop a web-conferencing tool, when he met Iyer, who went into business together.[2]

On May 29, 2007, Cisco Systems acquired WebEx for $3.2 billion.[6]

After a 6-year break spending time with his 2 daughters, in 2012, Iyar co-founded and became CEO of Moxo.[7] Moxo is a digital client interaction platform that received funding from Cisco and KDDI from Japan.[8]